S.Amdt. 337

SA 337. Mr. MERKLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2020 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 I, add the following:

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SEC. 155. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR PROCUREMENT, FLIGHT
TESTING, OR DEPLOYMENT OF SHORTER- OR
INTERMEDIATE-RANGE GROUND LAUNCHED BALLISTIC OR
CRUISE MISSILE SYSTEM.

(a) In General.--None of the amounts authorized to be
appropriated by this Act for the Department of Defense for
fiscal year 2020 may be made available for the procurement,
flight testing, or deployment of any United States shorter-
or intermediate-range ground launched ballistic or cruise
missile system with a range between 500 and 5,500 kilometers
until the Secretary of Defense, in concurrence with the
Secretary of State and the Director of National Intelligence,
submits a report and offers a briefing to the appropriate
committees of Congress that--
(1) includes a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) from a
NATO or Indo-Pacific ally that commits it to host deployment
of any such missile on its own territory, and in the case of
deployment on the European continent, has the concurrence of
the North Atlantic Council;
(2) provides a detailed diplomatic proposal for negotiating
an agreement to obtain the strategic stability benefits of
the INF Treaty;
(3) assesses the implications, in terms of the military
threat to the United States and its allies in Europe and the
Indo-Pacific, of a Russian Federation deployment of
intermediate-range cruise and ballistic missiles without
restriction;
(4) identifies what types of technologies and programs the
United States would need to pursue to offset the additional
Russian capabilities, and at what cost;
(5) identifies what mission requirements with respect to
the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China
will be met by INF-type systems;
(6) identifies the degree to which INF-compliant
capabilities, such as sea and air-launched cruise missiles,
can meet those same mission requirements; and
(7) identifies the ramifications of a collapse of the INF
Treaty on the ability to generate consensus among States
Parties to the NPT Treaty ahead of the 2020 NPT Review
Conference, and assesses the degree to which the Russian
Federation will use the United States unilateral withdrawal
to sow discord within the NATO alliance.
(b) Form of Report.--The report required under subsection
(a) shall be unclassified with a classified annex.
(c) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be
construed to authorize the use of the amounts authorized to
be appropriated under this Act for the procurement, testing,
or deployment of INF-type systems in the United States or its
territories.
(d) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Appropriate committees of congress.--The term
``appropriate committees of Congress'' means the
congressional defense committees, the Committee on Foreign
Relations of the Senate, and the Committee on Foreign Affairs
of the House of Representatives.
(2) INF treaty.--The term ``INF Treaty'' means the Treaty
between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-
Range and Shorter-Range Missiles, together with the
Memorandum of Understanding and Two Protocols, signed at
Washington December 8, 1987, and entered into force June 1,
1988.
(3) NPT treaty.--The term ``NPT Treaty'' means the Treaty
on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, signed at
Washington July 1, 1968
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