S.Amdt. 2467

SA 2467. Mr. CRUZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 2282 submitted by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr. McCain)
and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2019 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 C of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1239_. LIMITATION ON ASSISTANCE TO THE MINISTRY OF THE
INTERIOR OF THE GOVERNMENT OF IRAQ.

(a) In General.--None of the funds authorized to be
appropriated by this Act for assistance to the Ministry of
the Interior of the Government of Iraq may be obligated or
expended until the date on which the Secretary of Defense and
the Secretary of State jointly certify to the appropriate
committees of Congress that such funds, including funds for
the provision of intelligence sharing, will not be disbursed
by the United States to any group that is, or that is known
to be, affiliated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps-
Quds Force or other state sponsor of terrorism.
(b) Report.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter until the Iraq
Train and Equip Fund is no longer in effect, the Secretary of
State should submit to the appropriate committees of Congress
a report on the implementation of this section.
(c) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this
section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress''
means--
(1) the congressional defense committees; and
(2) the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and
the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of
Representatives.
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