S.Amdt. 782

SA 782. Mr. SANDERS 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. PROHIBITION ON OFFENSIVE COMBAT OPERATIONS AGAINST
IRAN WITHOUT EXPRESS DECLARATION OF WAR OR
AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF MILITARY FORCE.

No funds authorized to be appropriated for the Department
of Defense by this Act may be used to conduct offensive
combat operations against the Islamic Republic of Iran except
pursuant to a declaration of war made after the date of the
enactment of this Act, or an authorization for use of
military force enacted after that date, that expressly
authorizes such combat operations.
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