S.Amdt. 783

SA 783. 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 G of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 12__. PROHIBITION ON SUPPORT OR MILITARY PARTICIPATION
AGAINST THE HOUTHIS IN YEMEN.

(a) Prohibition Relating to Support.--None of the funds
authorized to be appropriated by this Act may be made
available to provide United States support for Saudi-led or
United Arab Emirates-led coalition forces against the Houthis
in Yemen, including for any of the following:
(1) Intelligence sharing or logistical support activities
for coalition airstrikes.
(2) Maintenance and spare parts transfers to warplanes
engaged in anti-Houthi bombings.
(b) Prohibition Relating to Military Participation.--None
of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act may be
made available for any uniformed or non-uniformed member of
the United States Armed Forces to command, coordinate,
participate in the movement of, or accompany the regular or
irregular military forces of the Saudi-led and United Arab
Emirates-led coalition forces in hostilities against the
Houthis in Yemen or in situations in which there exists an
imminent threat that such coalition forces become engaged in
such hostilities, unless and until the President has obtained
specific statutory authorization, in accordance with section
8(a) of the War Powers Resolution (50 U.S.C. 1547(a)).
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