S.Amdt. 785

SA 785. Mr. MERKLEY 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 appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ___. SENSE OF THE SENATE ON TRANSFER OF CLUSTER
MUNITIONS TO UKRAINE.

It is the sense of the Senate that--
(1) the President authorized the transfer of cluster
munitions to Ukraine during a transitional period in light of
a temporary shortfall of 155mm artillery shells; and
(2) Congress supports the President's plan to cease the
transfer of cluster munitions once a sufficient supply of
unitary 155mm artillery shells becomes available.
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