[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 120 (Thursday, July 13, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S2569]
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  SA 378. 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 G of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1299L. CLARIFICATION OF THE TERM ``UNFORESEEN 
                   EMERGENCY'' FOR PURPOSES OF PRESIDENTIAL 
                   DRAWDOWN AUTHORITY.

       Section 506(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 
     U.S.C. 2318(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following 
     new paragraphs:
       ``(4)(A) The President may only exercise the authority 
     provided by this subsection during the 20-day period 
     beginning on the date of an unforeseen emergency.
       ``(B) After the end of such 20-day period, the President 
     may not further exercise the authority provided by this 
     section, except as explicitly authorized by an Act of 
     Congress.
       ``(5) In this subsection, the term `unforeseen emergency' 
     means a direct kinetic attack--
       ``(A) on a bilateral or multilateral treaty ally of the 
     United States, undetected or reasonably unforeseen by United 
     States intelligence assessments, by an adversary of the 
     United States; and
       ``(B) that poses a direct or imminent threat to United 
     States security interests, as outlined in the most recent 
     national defense strategy of the United States.''.
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