S.Amdt. 198

SA 198. Mr. LEE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him
to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2024
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 D of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1259. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION REGARDING THE TAIWAN
RELATIONS ACT AND THE POWER OF CONGRESS TO
DECLARE WAR.

Nothing in the Taiwan Relations Act (22 U.S.C. 3301 et
seq.) supersedes the power of Congress to declare war under
article I, section 8 of the Constitution of the United
States.
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