[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 162 (Tuesday, October 11, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6553-S6554]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 6450. Mr. REED (for Mr. Portman) submitted an amendment intended 
to be proposed to amendment SA 5499 proposed by Mr. Reed (for himself 
and Mr. Inhofe) to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for 
fiscal year 2023 for military activities of the Department of Defense 
and for military construction, and for defense activities of the 
Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for 
such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on 
the table; as follows:

        At the appropriate place in title XII, insert the 
     following:

     SEC. __. PROHIBITION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS RELATING TO 
                   SOVEREIGNTY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION OVER 
                   SOVEREIGN UKRAINIAN TERRITORY.

       (a) In General.--Section 1234 of the National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 (Public Law 117-81; 
     135 Stat. 1974) is amended--

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       (1) in the section heading, by striking ``crimea'' and 
     inserting ``sovereign ukranian territory''; and
       (2) in subsection (a), by striking ``over Crimea'' and 
     inserting ``over territory internationally recognized to be 
     the sovereign territory of Ukraine, including Crimea and 
     territory the Russian Federation claimed to have annexed in 
     Kherson Oblast, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Donetsk Oblast, and 
     Luhansk Oblast''.
       (b) Clerical Amendments.--The tables of sections in section 
     2(b) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
     Year 2022 (Public Law 117-81; 135 Stat. 1541) and at the 
     beginning of title XII of such Act (135 Stat. 1956) are 
     amended, in the matter relating to section 1234, by striking 
     ``Crimea'' and inserting ``sovereign Ukranian territory''.
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