[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 119 (Wednesday, July 12, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S2389]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 198. Mr. LEE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him 
to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2024 
for military activities of the Department of Defense, 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 D of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1259. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION REGARDING THE TAIWAN 
                   RELATIONS ACT AND THE POWER OF CONGRESS TO 
                   DECLARE WAR.

       Nothing in the Taiwan Relations Act (22 U.S.C. 3301 et 
     seq.) supersedes the power of Congress to declare war under 
     article I, section 8 of the Constitution of the United 
     States.
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