S.Amdt. 4265

SA 4265. Mr. MURPHY (for himself and Mr. Lee) 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 G of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1283. AMENDMENT OF WAR POWERS RESOLUTION TO DEFINE
CERTAIN TERMS.

(a) Section 4 of the War Powers Resolution (50 U.S.C. 1543)
is amended--
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ``in which the United
States Armed Forces are introduced'' and inserting ``of the
introduction of United States Armed Forces''; and
(2) in subsection (c)--
(A) by striking ``United States Armed Forces are
introduced'' and inserting ``the introduction of United
States Armed Forces''; and
(B) by inserting ``occurs'' after ``section''.
(b) Section 8 of the War Powers Resolution (50 U.S.C. 1547)
is amended by striking subsection (c) and inserting the
following:
``(c) Definitions.--In this joint resolution:
``(1) Introduction of united states armed forces; introduce
united states armed forces.--The terms `introduction of
United States Armed Forces' and `introduce United States
Armed Forces' mean--
``(A) with respect to hostilities or a situation where
there is a serious risk of hostilities, any commitment,
engagement, or other involvement of United States Armed
Forces, whether or not constituting self-defense measures by
United States Armed Forces in response to an attack or
serious risk of an attack in any foreign country (including
the airspace, cyberspace, or territorial waters of such
country) or otherwise outside the United States and whether
or not United States forces are present or operating remotely
launched, piloted, or directed attacks; or
``(B) the assigning or detailing of members of United
States Armed Forces to command,

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advise, assist, accompany, coordinate, or provide logistical
or material support or training for any foreign regular or
irregular military forces if--
``(i) those foreign forces are involved in hostilities; and
``(ii) such activities by United States forces make the
United States a party to a conflict or are more likely than
not to do so.
``(2) Substantially enlarge.--
``(A) In general.--The term `substantially enlarge' means,
for any 2 year period, an increase of the number of United
States Armed Forces that causes the total number of forces in
a foreign country to exceed the lowest number of forces in
that country during that period by 25 percent or more, or any
increase of 1,000 or more forces.
``(B) Special rule.--Temporary duty and rotational forces
shall be included in the number of United States Armed Forces
for the purposes of subparagraph (A).''.
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