[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 114 (Wednesday, July 10, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S4398]
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SA 2155. Mr. CORNYN (for himself, Mr. Coons, Mrs. Shaheen, and Mr.
Scott of South Carolina) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2025 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 in title XII, insert the
following:
SEC. 12___. EXTENSION AND MODIFICATION OF LEND-LEASE
AUTHORITY TO UKRAINE.
Section 2 of the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act
of 2022 (Public Law 117-118; 136 Stat. 1184) is amended--
(1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ``fiscal years 2022
and 2023'' and inserting ``fiscal years 2022 through 2026'';
(2) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d); and
(3) by inserting after subsection (b) the following new
subsection (c):
``(c) Report.--Not later than 90 days after the use of the
authority under subsection (a), the Secretary of Defense
shall submit to Congress a report that includes--
``(1) a description of the defense articles loaned or
leased to the Government of Ukraine, or to the government of
an Eastern European country impacted by the Russian
Federation's invasion of Ukraine, under such authority; and
``(2) a strategy and timeline for recovery and return of
such defense articles.''.
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