S.Amdt. 2278

SA 2278. Mr. PAUL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2025 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 C of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1239. REPORT AND STRATEGY FOR UNITED STATES INVOLVEMENT
IN UKRAINE.

(a) In General.--Not later than 30 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the President, in coordination
with the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State,
shall develop and submit to the appropriate committees of
Congress a report that contains a strategy for United States
involvement in Ukraine.
(b) Elements.--The report required by subsection (a)
shall--
(1) define the United States national interests at stake
with respect to the conflict between the Russian Federation
and Ukraine;
(2) identify specific objectives the President believes
must be achieved in Ukraine in order to protect the United
States national interests defined in paragraph (1), and for
each objective--
(A) an estimate of the amount of time required to achieve
the objective, with an explanation;
(B) benchmarks to be used by the President to determine
whether an objective has been met, is in the progress of
being met, or cannot be met in the time estimated to be
required in subparagraph (A); and
(C) estimates of the amount of resources, including United
States personnel, materiel, and funding, required to achieve
the objective; and
(3) list the expected contribution for security assistance
made by European member countries of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization within the next fiscal year.
(c) Form.--The report required by subsection (a) shall be
submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified
annex.

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(d) Briefing.--Not later than 45 days after the date of the
submission of the report required by subsection (a), the
Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State shall provide
to the appropriate committees of Congress, and other Members
of Congress that wish to participate, a briefing on the
United States strategy with respect to Ukraine and plans for
the implementation of such strategy.
(e) Limitation on Funds.--None of the amounts authorized to
be appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act, the
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024
(Public Law 188-31), or the Ukraine Security Supplemental
Appropriations Act, 2024 (division B of Public Law 118-25)
may be made available for Ukraine until the report required
by subsection (a) is submitted to the appropriate committees
Congress and the briefing required by subsection (d) is held.
(f) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this
section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress''
means--
(1) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Appropriations, and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the
Senate; and
(2) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Appropriations, and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the
House of Representatives.
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