S.Amdt. 6498

SA 6498. Mrs. SHAHEEN (for herself, Mr. Tillis, and Ms. Murkowski)
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S.
4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 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. 1229A. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS TO ASSERT CONTROL
OVER ANY MEMBER COUNTRY OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC
TREATY ORGANIZATION.

(a) In General.--None of the funds authorized to be
appropriated by this Act for the Department of Defense may be
used to blockade, occupy, annex, conduct military operations
against, or otherwise assert control over the sovereign
territory of a member country of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization, other than as authorized by such country or the
North Atlantic Council.
(b) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section may be
construed to prevent the United States from defending itself
or an ally from an armed attack or from a credible threat of
an imminent armed attack.
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