S.Amdt. 2839

SA 2839. Mr. LANKFORD 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 H of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1095. SUBMISSION OF REQUESTS FOR ASSISTANCE ALONG THE
SOUTHERN BORDER.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of Homeland Security shall
make every effort to submit to the Secretary of Defense a
request for assistance for personnel or capabilities along
the southern border of the United States not later than 250
days before the requested deployment of such personnel or
capabilities.
(b) Contents.--A request for assistance submitted in
accordance with subsection (a) shall specify the capabilities
necessary to assist the Secretary of Homeland Security and
the Commissioner for U.S. Customs and Border Protection in
fulfilling the relevant mission along the southern border,
rather than specifying the requested number of troops.
(c) Waiver.--The Secretary of Homeland Security, with the
concurrence of the Secretary of Defense, may waive the 250-
day period referred to in subsection (a) if the Secretary of
Homeland Security--
(1) determines that doing so is in the national security
interest of the United States due to exigent circumstances;
and
(2) notifies and provides reasoning for requesting a waiver
to the congressional defense committees, the Committee on
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and
the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of
Representatives not later than 24 hours after such request.
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