[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 175 (Monday, November 14, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S6673]
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  SA 6479. Mr. SULLIVAN 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 end of subtitle C of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1239. LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR ARMED FORCES 
                   OPERATIONS AND ACTIVITIES IN, AND AID TO, 
                   COVERED NATO MEMBER COUNTRIES.

       (a) In General.--Subject to subsection (b), none of the 
     funds authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2023 for 
     the Department of Defense may be obligated or expended for 
     any of the following purposes:
       (1) To conduct operations, activities, or actions in a 
     covered NATO member country.
       (2) To station members of the Armed Forces in, or rotate 
     members of the Armed Forces through, a covered NATO member 
     country.
       (3) To provide military aid, including lethal and non-
     lethal assistance, to a covered NATO member country.
       (b) Waiver.--
       (1) In general.--The Secretary of Defense may waive 
     subsection (a) if, not later than 30 days after the use of 
     funds described in that subsection for a purpose described in 
     that subsection, the Secretary submits to the congressional 
     defense committees a certification that a waiver is in the 
     national security interests of the United States.
       (2) Element.--A certification submitted under paragraph (1) 
     shall include a detailed written justification for the 
     waiver.
       (c) Covered NATO Member Country Defined.--In this section, 
     the term ``covered NATO member country'' means--
       (1) any country that is a member of NATO as of June 2022 
     that fails to achieve defense spending of not less than 2 
     percent of its gross domestic product by 2024, as agreed to 
     at the 2014 Wales Summit; and
       (2) any country that becomes a member of NATO after June 
     2022 that fails to achieve defense spending of not less than 
     2 percent of its gross domestic product by the earlier of--
       (A) the date that is 5 years after the date on which the 
     country joined NATO; or
       (B) the date agreed to at the 2022 Madrid Summit.

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