- Record: Senate Floor
- Section type: Amendments
- Chamber: Senate
- Date: June 24, 2026
- Congress: 119th Congress
- Why this source matters: This section came from the Senate floor portion of the record.
SA 6141. Mr. VAN HOLLEN 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. PROHIBITION ON SALE, EXPORT, OR TRANSFER OF MAJOR
DEFENSE EQUIPMENT TO CERTAIN COUNTRIES.
(a) In General.—No sale, export, or transfer of major
defense equipment (as defined in section 47 of the Arms
Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2794)) may be provided to any
country that the President identifies as supporting the Rapid
Support Forces or the Sudanese Armed Forces through provision
of materiel or other resources or equipment.
(b) Waiver.—The President may waive the prohibition under
subsection (a) on a case-by-case basis if the President—
(1) determines such a waiver is vital to the national
interests of the United States; and
(2) not more than 15 days after issuing the waiver, submits
to the appropriate congressional committees a notification of
the waiver and a detailed description and justification for
the utilization of the waiver.
(c) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.—In this
section, the term “appropriate congressional committees”
means—
(1) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives; and
(2) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on
Appropriations of the Senate.