[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 133 (Friday, August 1, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S5396]
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  SA 3634. Mrs. SHAHEEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by her 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 C of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1230B. LIMITATION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR 
                   WITHDRAWAL OF UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES FROM 
                   EASTERN EUROPE.

       (a) In General.--None of the funds authorized to be 
     appropriated by this Act may be obligated or expended for the 
     withdrawal of the United States Armed Forces from 
     multinational battle groups in eastern member countries of 
     the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, including Bulgaria, 
     Hungary, Poland, and Romania, except as required for routine 
     rotational movements, while maintaining not fewer than the 
     number of forces and the types of capabilities present in 
     such countries as of January 1, 2025, until the date that is 
     180 days after the date on which the Secretary of Defense and 
     the Secretary of State jointly submit to the appropriate 
     committees of Congress a certification that--
       (1) the Russian Federation has withdrawn its military 
     forces from occupied territories in Ukraine, Georgia, and 
     Moldova;
       (2) the Russian Federation no longer has ambitions to 
     control territory of sovereign neighbors in its near abroad; 
     and
       (3) the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State 
     have appropriately consulted with the leaders of such 
     multinational battlegroups and with the governments of each 
     member country of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization with 
     respect to such withdrawal of the United States Armed Forces.
       (b) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this 
     section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' 
     means--
       (1) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
     Appropriations, and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 
     Senate; and
       (2) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
     Appropriations, and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 
     House of Representatives.
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