[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 132 (Thursday, July 31, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S5092]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3298. Mr. LEE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 2296, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2026 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. __. REPORT REQUIREMENTS AND FUNDING LIMITATION FOR LATE 
                   SUBMISSION OF REPORTS AFTER USE OF MILITARY 
                   FORCE.

       (a) Report Requirements After Use of Military Force.--
     Section 1285 of the National Defense Authorization Act for 
     Fiscal Year 2020 (50 U.S.C. 1550) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``House of 
     Representatives'' and inserting ``House of Representatives, 
     and make publicly available,''; and
       (2) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ``organization with 
     respect to which force'' and inserting ``organization 
     (disaggregated by regional affiliates or provinces, as 
     applicable) with respect to which force, whether offensive or 
     defensive, continuous or intermittent, and conventional or 
     irregular,''.
       (b) Limitation on Availability of Funds for the Office of 
     the Secretary of Defense.--Such section 1285 is further 
     amended by adding at the end the following:
       ``(f) Limitation on Availability of Funds for the Office of 
     the Secretary of Defense.--Of the funds authorized to be 
     appropriated or otherwise made available in each fiscal year 
     after fiscal year 2024 for `Operation and Maintenance, 
     Defense-wide', and made available for the Office of the 
     Secretary of Defense--
       ``(1) not more than 25 percent may be obligated or expended 
     until the date on which the President submits the final 
     report required to be submitted under this section with 
     respect to the prior fiscal year; and
       ``(2) not more than 75 percent may be obligated or expended 
     until the date on which the President submits the first 
     report required to be submitted under this section with 
     respect to the current fiscal year.''.
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