- 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 6501. Mrs. SHAHEEN (for herself, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Moran, and Mr. Husted) 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. LIMITATION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR
WITHDRAWAL OF UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES FROM
EASTERN EUROPE.
(a) In General.—None of the funds authorized to be
appropriated by this Act may be obligated or expended for the
withdrawal of the United States Armed Forces from Estonia,
Latvia, or Lithuania or from the multinational battle groups
in eastern member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (including Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, and
Romania), except as required for routine rotational
movements, while maintaining not fewer than the number of
forces and the types of capabilities present in such
countries as of January 1, 2025, until the date that is 180
days after the date on which the Secretary of Defense and the
Secretary of State jointly submit to the appropriate
committees of Congress a report on whether the following
conditions have been met:
(1) The Russian Federation has withdrawn its military
forces from occupied territories in Ukraine, Georgia, and
Moldova.
(2) The Russian Federation no longer has ambitions to
control territory of sovereign neighbors in its near abroad.
(3) The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State
have appropriately consulted with the leaders of such
multinational battlegroups and with the governments of each
member country of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization with
respect to such withdrawal of the United States Armed Forces.
(b) Report for Conditions Not Met.—If, in a report
submitted under subsection (a), the Secretary of Defense and
the Secretary of State indicate that a condition set forth in
any of paragraphs (1) through (3) of subsection (a) has not
been met, not later than 30 days after the date of such
submission, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of
State shall jointly submit to the appropriate committees of
Congress a report that includes the following:
(1) A description of the manner in which United States
national security interests in the regions of Europe and
Eurasia are being protected.
(2) A description of the manner in which the security of
member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is
being protected.
(3) A detailed description of the manner in which the
United States is supporting the security of the Baltic
countries and other eastern member countries of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization.
(c) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.—In this
section, the term “appropriate committees of Congress”
means—
(1) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Appropriations, and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the
Senate; and
(2) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Appropriations, and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the
House of Representatives.