S.Amdt. 2679

SA 2679. Mr. LEE 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. GROUNDS FOR IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWAL OF THE UNITED
STATES FROM NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY IF ALL NATO
COUNTRIES CONSENT TO UKRAINE BEGINNING THE NATO
ACCESSION PROCESS.

Section 408 of the Mutual Security Act of 1954 (22 U.S.C.
1928) is amended by adding at the end the following:
``(d) Grounds for Immediate Withdrawal.--If the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization provides unanimous consent for
Ukraine to begin the accession process, such action shall be
grounds for the immediate withdrawal by the United States
from the North Atlantic Treaty in accordance with Article 13
of the North Atlantic Treaty.''.
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