S.Amdt. 2759

SA 2759. Mr. GARDNER (for himself, Mr. Inhofe, Mrs. Ernst, and Mr.
Van Hollen) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment
SA 2282 proposed by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr. McCain) 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, insert the
following:

SEC. 12__. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON PESHMERGA FORCES.

It is the sense of the Congress that--
(1) the Peshmerga forces of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
have made, and continue to make, significant contributions to
the United States-led campaign to degrade, dismantle, and
ultimately defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
in Iraq;
(2) a lasting defeat of ISIS is critical to maintaining a
stable and tolerant Iraq in which all faiths, sects, and
ethnicities are afforded equal protection and full
integration into the Government and society of Iraq; and
(3) in support of counter-ISIS operations and in
conjunction with the Central Government of Iraq, the United
States should provide the Ministry of Peshmerga forces of the
Kurdistan Region of Iraq $290,000,000 in operational
sustainment, so that the Peshmerga forces can more
effectively partner with the Iraqi Security Forces, the
United States, and other international Coalition members to
consolidate gains, hold territory, and protect infrastructure
from ISIS and its affiliates in an effort to deal a lasting
defeat to ISIS and prevent its reemergence in Iraq.
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