S.Amdt. 2019

SA 2019. Mr. ROMNEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2021 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 appropriate place in title X, insert the following:

SEC. ___. REPORT ON IMPLICATIONS OF RUSSIA-CHINA GAS
PIPELINE.

(a) Report Required.--The Director of National Intelligence
shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a
report on the implications for the United States and the
allies of the United States of the gas pipeline between
Russia and China that was put into use starting in 2019.
(b) Contents.--The report submitted under subsection (a)
shall include an assessment of the following:
(1) The economic, national security, or energy security
implications for the United States of the pipeline described
in subsection (a).
(2) The economic, national security, or energy security
implications for Europe of such pipeline.
(3) Whether such pipeline is part of a trend of cooperation
between Russia and China.
(4) The motivation for such cooperation.
(c) Form.--The report submitted under subsection (a) shall
be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a
classified annex.
(d) Definition of Appropriate Committees of Congress.--In
this section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress''
means--
(1) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on
Armed Services, and the Select Committee on Intelligence of
the Senate; and
(2) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on
Armed Services, and the Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence of the House of Representatives.
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