[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 128 (Tuesday, July 25, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S3539]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1032. Mr. SANDERS (for himself, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Markey, Mr. 
Welch, and Ms. Warren) 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 appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS TO ADDRESS 
                   HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN GAZA AND THE WEST BANK.

       There is authorized to be appropriated--
       (1) an additional $200,000,000 for the Migration and 
     Refugee Account, to be allocated to the United Nations Relief 
     and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees to make up the 
     funding shortfall for such organization and to ensure the 
     continuity of basic services to Palestinian refugees; and
       (2) an additional $50,000,000 in Economic Support Funds for 
     assistance to the West Bank and Gaza.
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