S.Amdt. 5425

SA 5425. Mr. KYL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 3001, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2009 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:

On page 41, strike lines 1 through 3 and insert the following:

(1) The ballistic missile threat posed by North Korea, Iran, and other countries with active ballistic missile development and fielding programs, including the following:

(A) The existing inventories of short-range, medium-range, long-range, and intercontinental-range ballistic missiles of each such country, and the ranges of such missiles based on possible launch points.

(B) The ballistic missile programs currently under development by each such country, including, for each such program, an assessment of--

(i) the ranges of the ballistic missiles under such program;

(ii) the fuel propulsion systems for such missiles;

(iii) the booster and warhead characteristics of such missiles; and

(iv) the capacity of such missiles to employ countermeasures, decoys, or multiple re-entry vehicles.

(C) The ballistic missile tests and exercises of each such country since 2005.

(D) The proliferation of ballistic missile hardware, technology and expertise of each such country.

(E) The ballistic missile launch facilities of each such country, whether existing or under construction.