119-hr2010

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
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[H.R. 2010 Introduced in House

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 2010

To prevent the President of the United States from withdrawing from the 
 North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 March 10, 2025

Mr. Panetta (for himself and Mr. Bacon) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition 
 to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined 
 by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as 
 fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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 A BILL

To prevent the President of the United States from withdrawing from the 
 North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``NATO Edge Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

 Congress finds the following:

    (1) The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (``NATO'') has 
 served as a pillar of international peace and stability, a 
 critical component of United States security, and a deterrent 
 against adversaries and external threats.

    (2) The House of Representatives affirmed in H. Res. 397, 
 on June 27, 2017, that--
        (A) NATO is one of the most successful military 
 alliances in history, deterring the outbreak of another 
 world war, protecting the territorial integrity of its 
 members, and concluding the Cold War peacefully;
        (B) NATO remains the foundation of United States 
 foreign policy to promote prosperity, freedom, and 
 peace in Europe;
            (C) the United States is solemnly committed to the 
 North Atlantic Treaty Organization's principle of 
 collective defense as enumerated in Article 5 of the 
 North Atlantic Treaty;
            (D) condemns any threat to the sovereignty, 
 territorial integrity, freedom, and democracy of any 
 NATO ally; and
        (E) strongly supports collaboration with NATO 
 allies to enforce Ukraine's territorial integrity 
 against unprovoked aggression from the Russian 
 Federation.

    (3) NATO members should abide by the decision at the NATO 
 Wales Summit in 2014 that each alliance member aim to spend at 
 least 2 percent of its nation's gross domestic product on 
 defense by 2024.

    (4) Investing in multinational training exercises and joint 
 research and education programs with NATO allies have offered 
 improvements for interoperability and readiness against threats 
 to European security, particularly from the Russian Federation.

SEC. 3. MODIFICATION OF LIMITATION ON WITHDRAWAL FROM NATO.

 

Section 1250A of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2024 (22 U.S.C. 1928f) is amended--

    (1) 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'';

    (2) by amending subsection

    (b) to read as follows:
 ``

    (b) Prohibition on the Use of Funds To Withdraw From NATO.--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.'';

    (3) by redesignating subsections
            (c) ,
            (d) ,

    (e) , and

    (f) as 
 subsections

    (f) ,

    (g) ,

    (h) , and
            (i) , respectively; and

    (4) by inserting after subsection

    (b) the following new 
 subsections:
 ``
            (c) In General.--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.
 ``
            (d) Consideration.--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).
 ``

    (e) Reporting Requirement.--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.''.

SEC. 4. SUNSET.

 The amendments made by 

section 3 of this Act shall terminate on 
September 30, 2033. 

Section 1250A of the National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2024 (22 U.S.C. 1928f) shall be restored on such 
date as if such amendments had not been enacted and as in effect on the 
day after the date of the amendment of such Act National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024.
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