S.Amdt. 1706

SA 1706. Mr. SESSIONS 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:

On page 645, between lines 16 and 17, insert the following:
(4) At the 2006 North Atlantic Treaty Organization Summit
in Riga, North Atlantic Treaty Organization member countries
committed to endeavor to spend a minimum of two per cent of
their national income or Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to
spending on defense.
(5) At the 2014 North Atlantic Treaty Organization Summit
in Wales, North Atlantic Treaty Organization member countries
agreed that ``allies currently meeting the NATO guideline to
spend a minimum of 2% of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
on defense will aim to continue to do so'' and that ``allies
whose current proportion of GDP spent on defense is below
this level will: halt any decline in defense expenditure; aim
to increase defense expenditure in real terms as GDP grows;
aim to move towards the two percent guideline within a decade
with a view to meeting their NATO Capability Targets and
filling NATO's capability shortfalls''.
(6) In 2015, four out of the 28 North Atlantic Treaty
Organization member countries, including the United States,
meet the two percent target.
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spending; and
(5) the North Atlantic Treaty Organization member countries
are strongly urged to meet their commitment under the Wales
Summit Declaration to spend two percent of their Gross
Domestic Product on defense.
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