[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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