Sec. 3. Modification of limitation on withdrawal from NATO
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Section 1250A of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 ( 22 U.S.C. 1928f ) is amended— in subsection (a), by inserting after an Act of Congress the following: , and unless all remaining members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization who have not allocated a minimum of 2 percent of their Gross Domestic Product to annual defense spending have not made an explicit commitment to spend 2 percent of their Gross Domestic Product, as defined by NATO standards, on defense within 5 years from the given fiscal year to which the President is seeking to so suspend, terminate, denounce, or withdraw the United States from the North Atlantic Treaty ; by amending subsection
(b)to read as follows: No funds authorized or appropriated by any Act may be made available to support, directly or indirectly, any decision on the part of any United States Government official to suspend, terminate, denounce, or withdraw the United States from the North Atlantic Treaty, done at Washington, DC, 3 April 4, 1949, except by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, provided that two-thirds of the Senators present concur, or pursuant to an Act of Congress, and unless all remaining members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization who have not spent a minimum of 2 percent of their Gross Domestic Product to defense have not made an explicit commitment to spend 2 percent of their Gross Domestic Product, as defined by NATO standards, on defense within 5 years from the given fiscal year to which the President is seeking to so suspend, terminate, denounce, or withdraw the United States from the North Atlantic Treaty. ; by redesignating subsections (c), (d), (e), and
(f)as subsections (f), (g), (h), and (i), respectively; and by inserting after subsection
(b)the following new subsections: By adoption of a resolution of the Senate or the House of Representatives, respectively, the Senate Legal Counsel or the General Counsel to the House of Representatives may be authorized to initiate, or intervene in, in the name of the Senate or the House of Representatives, as the case may be, independently, or jointly, any judicial proceedings in any Federal court of competent jurisdiction in order to oppose any action to suspend, terminate, denounce, or withdraw the United States from the North Atlantic Treaty in a manner inconsistent with this section. Any resolution or joint resolution introduced relating to any action to suspend, terminate, denounce or withdraw the United States from the North Atlantic Treaty and introduced pursuant to subsection
(a)shall be considered in accordance with the procedures of section 601(b) of the International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act of 1976 ( Public Law 94–329 ; 90 Stat. 765). Any legal counsel operating pursuant to section 1299R shall report as soon as practicable to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate with respect to any judicial proceedings which the Senate Legal Counsel or the General Counsel to the House of Representatives, as the case may be, initiates or in which it intervenes pursuant to section 1299R. .
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Modification of limitation on withdrawal from NATO
Pub. L.Pub. L. 94-329
Stat.90 Stat. 765
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