S.Amdt. 770

SA 770. Mr. MURPHY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2018 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 E of title X, add the following:

SEC. ___. SUNSET OF AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF MILITARY FORCE.

(a) Sunset.--Section 2 of the Authorization for Use of
Military Force (Public Law 107-40; 50 U.S.C. 1541 note) is
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
``(c) Sunset.--The authority to use force in this
resolution shall expire on the date that is three years after
the date of the enactment of the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018, unless reauthorized
or extended by an Act of Congress.''.
(b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
(1) the need will remain to defend against specific
networks of violent extremists, including al Qaeda and its
affiliates, that threaten the United States; and
(2) the President must work with Congress to secure
whatever authorities may be required to meet that threat in a
manner that complies with the Constitution and the War Powers
Resolution (50 U.S.C. 1541 et seq.).
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