S.Amdt. 4660

SA 4660. 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:

At the end of subtitle H of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1277. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON THE CONFLICT IN YEMEN.

It is the sense of Congress that--
(1) all sides to the current conflict in Yemen should--
(A) abide by international obligations to protect
civilians;
(B) facilitate the delivery of humanitarian relief
throughout the country; and
(C) respect negotiated cease-fires and work toward a
lasting political settlement;
(2) United States-supported Saudi military operations in
Yemen should--
(A) take all feasible precautions to reduce the risk of
harm to civilians and civilian objects, in compliance with
international humanitarian law; and
(B) increase prioritization of targeting of designated
foreign terrorist organizations, including al Qaeda in the
Arabian Peninsula and affiliates of the Islamic State of Iraq
and the Levant; and
(3) the Houthi-Saleh forces engaged in the conflict in
Yemen should--
(A) cease indiscriminate shelling of areas inhabited by
civilians; and
(B) allow free access by humanitarian relief organizations
seeking to deliver aid to civilian populations under siege.
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