S.Amdt. 81

SA 81. Mr. BLUMENTHAL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 1, to make improvements to certain defense and
security assistance provisions and to authorize the appropriation of
funds to Israel, to reauthorize the United States-Jordan Defense
Cooperation Act of 2015, and to halt the wholesale slaughter of the
Syrian people, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the
table; as follows:

In section 203(2), strike ``crisis.'' and insert the
following: ``crisis; and
(3) the United States must recommit to resettling a robust
number of refugees to meet its share of the global need to
alleviate instability in countries like Jordan, which have
absorbed a disproportionate number of displaced people
fleeing the crisis in Syria, and reaffirm the responsibility
of the United States to resettle refugees as a key tenet of
foreign policy.
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