- Record: Senate Floor
- Section type: Amendments
- Chamber: Senate
- Date: June 22, 2026
- Congress: 119th Congress
- Why this source matters: This section came from the Senate floor portion of the record.
SA 5898. Ms. DUCKWORTH 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 appropriate place, insert the following:
SEC. __. IRAN WAR ACCOUNTABILITY.
(a) Prohibition on Use of Funds.—
(1) In general.—None of the funds authorized to be
appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act shall be
used by the Department of Defense to fund military operations
or activities against Iran until the date on which Congress
authorizes the use of military force against Iran.
(2) Rule of construction.—Nothing in this subsection may
be construed to prevent the United States from—
(A) defending against an attack on the United States or its
personnel or facilities in other nations;
(B) collecting, analyzing, or sharing intelligence,
including with the State of Israel and United States partners
and allies, and international organizations as appropriate,
related to defending against threats from Iran or its
proxies;
(C) assisting partner countries who have been attacked by
Iran since February 28, 2026, and other nations—
(i) in taking defensive measures to protect their territory
from retaliatory attacks by Iran or its proxies; or
(ii) by providing defensive materiel support for such
defensive measures; or
(D) providing assistance for the security, departure, and
evacuation to United States citizens affected by the
hostilities.
(b) Limitation on Use of Funds for Travel Expenses.—
(1) In general.—None of the funds authorized to be
appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for
fiscal year 2027 for operation and maintenance, Defense-wide,
and available for the Office of the Secretary of Defense for
travel expenses may be obligated or expended until the date
on which the Secretary of Defense submits to the
congressional defense committees a report on the manner in
which military operations and activities against Iran since
February 28, 2026, affect the military readiness of the
United States Armed Forces.
(2) Elements.—The report referred to in paragraph (1)
shall include, with respect to such operations and
activities, the following:
(A) A detailed description of the impact of such operations
and activities on the maintenance cycles for each affected
platform or asset, including the date on which each such
platform or asset is estimated to return to mission capable
status, as compared to the original maintenance timeline.
(B) An accounting of munitions expenditures from such
operations and activities, detailed by type of munition and
the total available stock of such munition.
(C) Estimated timelines for replenishing expended
munitions, by type of munition.
(D) A list of destroyed assets, platforms, and equipment
(as compared to total stocks, disaggregated by mission
capable rates) and associated costs.
(E) A list of damaged assets, platforms, and equipment (as
compared to total stocks, disaggregated by mission capable
rates) and associated costs of, and timelines for, repair.
(F) A list of damaged United States infrastructure and
facilities, including a description of the source of damage,
extent of damage, location, mission impacted by damage, and
estimated cost of, and timeline for, repair.
(G) An accounting of wounded-in-action rates, associated
costs of medical care, resulting disability rates, and an
assessment of the manner in which such wounded-in-action
rates impact unit readiness rates.
(H) A list of each unit that has experienced casualties,
organized in descending order by number of casualties.
(3) Form.—A report under this subsection shall be
submitted in unclassified form but may include a classified
annex.