S.Amdt. 538

SA 538. Mr. PORTMAN 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:

Strike section 1233 and insert the following:

SEC. 1233. EXTENSION AND MODIFICATION OF LIMITATION ON
MILITARY COOPERATION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES
AND THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.

Section 1232(a) of the National Defense Authorization Act
for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114-328; 130 Stat. 2488), as
most recently amended by section 1247 of the John S. McCain
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019
(Public Law 115-232), is further amended--
(1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking
``fiscal year 2017, 2018, or 2019'' and inserting ``fiscal
year 2017, 2018, 2019, or 2020'';
(2) in paragraph (1) by striking ``; and'';
(3) in paragraph (2) by striking the period at the end and
inserting ``; and''; and
(4) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
``(3) the Russian Federation has released the 24 Ukrainian
sailors captured in the Kerch Strait on November 25, 2018.''.
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