[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4957-S4958]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2635. Mr. LEE 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

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year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. __. MODIFICATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DRAWDOWN AUTHORITY.

       Section 506(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 
     U.S.C. 2318(a)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1), in the undesignated matter following 
     subparagraph (B)--
       (A) by striking ``he may direct,'' and inserting ``the 
     President may direct, subject to paragraph (4),''; and
       (B) by inserting ``, except as provided in paragraph (5)'' 
     after ``fiscal year''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraphs:
       ``(4)(A) The President may direct the drawdown of defense 
     articles, defense services, and military education and 
     training under paragraph (1) only during the 20-day period 
     beginning on the date on which the President reports to 
     Congress that an unforeseen emergency exists under such 
     paragraph.
       ``(B) The authority to deliver defense articles, defense 
     services, and military education and training pursuant to a 
     drawdown directed under paragraph (1) shall expire at the end 
     of the fiscal year in which the drawdown was directed.
       ``(5)(A) The President may direct the drawdown of defense 
     articles, defense services, and military education and 
     training under paragraph (1) of an aggregate value that would 
     exceed $100,000,000 in a fiscal year if--
       ``(i) the President submits to Congress--
       ``(I) a request for authorization to direct such a drawdown 
     of an aggregate value that exceeds $100,000,000 for that 
     fiscal year; and
       ``(II) a report that an unforeseen emergency exists, in 
     accordance with paragraph (1);
       ``(ii) after the submission of such request and report, 
     there is enacted a joint resolution or other provision of law 
     approving the authorization requested; and
       ``(iii) Congress has authorized appropriations in a 
     specific amount sufficient to replenish the aggregate value 
     of the proposed drawdown.
       ``(B)(i) Each request submitted under subparagraph (A)(i) 
     may request authorization to direct a drawdown under 
     paragraph (1) for only one intended recipient country.
       ``(ii) A resolution or other provision of law described in 
     subparagraph (A)(ii) may approve a request for authorization 
     to direct a drawdown under paragraph (1) for only one 
     intended recipient country.
       ``(6)(A) Any resolution described in paragraph (5)(A)(ii) 
     may be considered by Congress using the expedited procedures 
     set forth in this paragraph.
       ``(B) For purposes of this paragraph, the term `resolution' 
     means only a joint resolution of the two Houses of Congress--
       ``(i) the title of which is as follows: `A joint resolution 
     approving the use of the special authority provided by 
     section 506(a)(1) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 in 
     excess of the fiscal year limitation.';
       ``(ii) which does not have a preamble; and
       ``(iii) the sole matter after the resolving clause of which 
     is as follows: `The proposed use of the special authority 
     provided by section 506(a)(1) of the Foreign Assistance Act 
     of 1961 in excess of the fiscal year limitation, to respond 
     to the unforeseen emergency in ________________