S.Amdt. 4477

SA 4477. Mr. ROMNEY (for himself and Mrs. Shaheen) 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 B of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1216. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON ALLIES AND PARTNERS ASSISTING
EVACUATION FROM AFGHANISTAN.

It is the sense of Congress that--
(1) following the Afghan Taliban takeover of the Islamic
Republic of Afghanistan, Albania, Bahrain, Georgia, Germany,
Greece, Italy, Kosovo, Kuwait, North Macedonia, Norway,
Mexico, Qatar, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sudan, Uganda,
Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and
the Self-Declared Independent Republic of Somaliland
responded to the United States' request for assistance in the
effort to evacuate and support thousands of United States
citizens, lawful permanent residents of the United States,
vulnerable Afghans, and their families; and
(2) the United States values the vital contributions of
these partners and allies to the evacuation effort and is
grateful for their support of this critical humanitarian
mission.
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