S.Amdt. 4179

SA 4179. Mr. MENENDEZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be proposed
to the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022
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 F of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1264. REPORT ON MAJOR CONSTRAINTS ON EFFECTIVENESS OF
MILITARY FORCES OF NIGERIA IN COMBATING ISIS
AND BOKO HARAM.

(a) In General.--Not later than 120 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Director of National
Intelligence shall submit to the appropriate committees of
Congress a report that includes an analysis of the major
constraints on the effectiveness of the military forces of
the Federal Republic of Nigeria in combating ISIS and Boko
Haram (to the extent Boko Haram persists) in northeastern
Nigeria.
(b) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this
section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress''
means--
(1) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Select
Committee on Intelligence of the Senate, and the Committee on
Armed Services of the Senate; and
(2) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence, and the Committee on Armed
Services of the House of Representatives.
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