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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextSA 6094. Mr. KAINE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him 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 E of title XII, add the following:
SEC. 1271. MEANING OF INTRODUCTION OF UNITED STATES ARMED
FORCES INTO HOSTILITIES FOR PURPOSES OF THE WAR
POWERS RESOLUTION.
Section 4 of the War Powers Resolution (50 U.S.C. 1543) is
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
“(d) Rule of Construction Regarding Introduction Into
Hostilities.—For purposes of subsection (a), the phrase
`United States Armed Forces are introduced into hostilities'
shall be construed to include any use of lethal or
potentially lethal force by or against United States Armed
Forces, whether or not constituting self-defense measures by
the United States Armed Forces, and irrespective of the
domain, whether such force is deployed by or against United
States Armed Forces using remotely launched, piloted, or
directed attacks, or the intermittency thereof.”.