[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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