S.Amdt. 4625

SA 4625. Mr. MURPHY (for himself and Mr. Paul) submitted an amendment
intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2943, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2017 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 1058, line 15, strike ``country.'' and insert the
following: ``country; and
(9) consistent with the principles of good governance and
the rule of law, and to ensure alignment with the broader
foreign policy and national security objectives of the United
States, no funds authorized for the Defense Security
Cooperation Agency by this Act, any previous Act, or
otherwise available to the Agency may be used to carry out
the provisions of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2751
et seq.), for the purposes of implementing a sale of air to
ground munitions to Saudi Arabia unless the Government of
Saudi Arabia--
(A) demonstrates an ongoing effort to combat the mutual
threat our nations face from designated foreign terrorist
organizations; and
(B) takes all feasible precautions to reduce the risk of
harm to civilians and civilian objects, in compliance with
international humanitarian law, in the course of military
actions it pursues for the purpose of legitimate self-defense
as described in section 4 of the Arms Export Control Act (22
U.S.C. 2754).
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