S.Amdt. 1698

SA 1698. Mr. CASEY (for himself, Mr. Inhofe, and Mr. Whitehouse)
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1463
proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities of the
Department of Defense and for military construction, 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 section 1533, add the following:
(f) Provision to Certain Foreign Forces Through Other
United States Government Agencies.--
(1) Sense of congress.--It is the sense of Congress that
the Department of Defense should increase efforts to combat
the use by the terrorist group the Islamic State of Iraq and
the Levant (ISIL) of improvised explosive devices and the
illicit smuggling of improvised explosive device precursor
materials.
(2) Provision through other agencies.--If jointly agreed
upon by the Secretary of Defense and the head of another
department or agency of the United States Government, the
Secretary of Defense may transfer funds available under
subsection (a) to such department or agency for the provision
by such department or agency of training, equipment,
supplies, and services to ministries and other entities of
the Government of Iraq and nations that border Iraq (other
than Iran and Syria), as described in that subsection.
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