S.Amdt. 931

SA 931. Mrs. ERNST submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
her 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 C of title XII, add the following:

SEC. ___. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON THE ISLAMIC STATE OF IRAQ AND
THE LEVANT.

It is the sense of the Congress that--
(1) the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) poses
an acute threat to the people, government, and territorial
integrity of Iraq, including the Iraqi Sunni, Shia, and
Kurdish communities and religious and ethnic minorities in
Iraq, and to the security and stability of the Middle East
and beyond;
(2) the defeat of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
is critical to maintaining a unified Iraq in which all
faiths, sects, and ethnicities are afforded equal protection
and full integration into the Government and society of Iraq;
and
(3) the United States should, in coordination with
coalition partners, continue necessary support to the
security forces of or associated with the Government of Iraq
that have a national security mission in their fight against
the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
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