S.Amdt. 566

SA 566. Mr. DURBIN (for himself, Mr. Udall, Ms. Duckworth, Mr. Paul,
and Mr. Lee) 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 X, add the following:

SEC. 1045. LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS ON MILITARY OPERATIONS
INVOLVING HOSTILITIES USING AUTHORITY OF
DECLARATION OF WAR OR AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF
MILITARY FORCE ENACTED MORE THAN 10 YEARS
PREVIOUSLY.

No amounts authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made
available for the Department of Defense may be used for
military operations involving hostilities, except in cases of
self defense, based solely on the authority of a declaration
of war or Authorization for Use of Military Force enacted
more than ten years before such use.

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