S.Amdt. 378

SA 378. 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 G of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1299L. CLARIFICATION OF THE TERM ``UNFORESEEN
EMERGENCY'' FOR PURPOSES OF PRESIDENTIAL
DRAWDOWN AUTHORITY.

Section 506(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22
U.S.C. 2318(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following
new paragraphs:
``(4)(A) The President may only exercise the authority
provided by this subsection during the 20-day period
beginning on the date of an unforeseen emergency.
``(B) After the end of such 20-day period, the President
may not further exercise the authority provided by this
section, except as explicitly authorized by an Act of
Congress.
``(5) In this subsection, the term `unforeseen emergency'
means a direct kinetic attack--
``(A) on a bilateral or multilateral treaty ally of the
United States, undetected or reasonably unforeseen by United
States intelligence assessments, by an adversary of the
United States; and
``(B) that poses a direct or imminent threat to United
States security interests, as outlined in the most recent
national defense strategy of the United States.''.
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