[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 133 (Friday, August 1, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S5219]
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  SA 3417. Mr. BUDD (for himself and Mr. Kelly) 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 end of subtitle E of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 126_. DISPOSITION OF WEAPONS AND MATERIEL IN TRANSIT 
                   FROM IRAN TO HOUTHIS IN YEMEN.

       (a) Disposition of Weapons and Materiel.--The President may 
     treat as stocks of the United States any weapon or materiel 
     seized by the United States while in transit from the Islamic 
     Republic of Iran to the Houthis in the Republic of Yemen.
       (b) 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 paragraph:
       ``(4) In addition to amounts otherwise specified in this 
     section, the President may direct the drawdown of weapons and 
     materiel treated as stocks of the United States, seized 
     pursuant to section 126_(a) of the National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026, to be provided to 
     foreign partners.''.
       (c) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the President 
     shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a 
     report that includes the following:
       (1) The number of times the President exercised the 
     authority under subsection (a).
       (2) An inventory of the weapons and materiel treated as 
     United States stocks pursuant to such authority.
       (3) An inventory of the weapons and materiel provided to 
     foreign partners pursuant to the authority provided in 
     paragraph (4) of section 506(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act 
     of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2318(a)).
       (d) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this 
     section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' 
     means--
       (1) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
     Foreign Relations of the Senate; and
       (2) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
     Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.
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