S.Amdt. 1792

SA 1792. Mr. McCONNELL (for Mr. Rubio) 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 subtitle B of title XXXI, add the following:

SEC. 3124. PROHIBITION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR PROVISION
OF DEFENSE NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION ASSISTANCE
TO RUSSIAN FEDERATION.

(a) Prohibition.--None of the funds authorized to be
appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for
fiscal year 2016 for defense nuclear nonproliferation
activities, and none of the funds authorized to be
appropriated for defense nuclear nonproliferation activities
for any fiscal year before fiscal year 2016 that are
available for obligation as of the date of the enactment of
this Act, may be obligated or expended to enter into a
contract with, or otherwise provide assistance to, the
Russian Federation until the President certifies to the
appropriate congressional committees that the Russian
Federation is in compliance with--
(1) the Treaty between the United States of America and the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of
Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles, signed
at Washington December 8, 1987, and entered into force June
1, 1988 (commonly referred to as the ``Intermediate-Range
Nuclear Forces Treaty'' or ``INF Treaty'');
(2) the Treaty between the United States of America and the
Russian Federation on Measures for the Further Reduction and
Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, signed on April 8,
2010, and entered into force on February 5, 2011 (commonly
referred to as the ``New START Treaty'');
(3) its obligations under the Presidential Nuclear
Initiatives agreed to by President George H.W. Bush and
President Boris Yeltsin; and
(4) its obligations (as the United States defines those
obligations) under the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty,
adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on September
10, 1996.
(b) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.--In this
section, the term ``appropriate congressional committees''
means the following:
(1) The congressional defense committees.
(2) The Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and
the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of
Representatives.
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