National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012

S.1867
Introduced: 
November 15, 2011
112
First
December 1, 2011
Passed in Senate

No cosponsors

Would authorize $156 m. to fund research, development and procurement for various missile defense systems for Israel. The bill would also authorize $306,595,000 to be used for research and development of a land-based version of the existing ship-launched Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) ballistic missile defense system. The land-based SM-3 is being developed specifically both for use by the U.S. military and as a back-up system for Israel should development of the system specifically for Israel, the Arrow-3, fail.

Two relevant amendments were offered to the bill:

S. Amdt. 1137, Dean Heller (R-NV), introduced 11/18/11 with 2 cosponsors

This amendment is identical to the Jerusalem Embassy and Recognition Act of 2011 (S. 1622 also introduced by Heller on 9/23/11) which would require the president to relocate the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. This amendment was not considered by the Senate.

S. Amdt. 1414, submitted by Robert Menendez (D-NJ) on 11/29/11 with 54 cosponsors

Directs the president to prohibit foreign banks from conducting business with banks in the U.S. if they have conducted significant transactions with the Central Bank of Iran or other Iranian financial institutions. This would apply to the central banks of other nations only if the transactions involved Iran’s petroleum industry.

This amendment was coauthored by Sens. Menendez and Mark Kirk (R-IL) who had proposed competing measures. Menendez and Kirk each invoked Iran’s threat to Israel during their speeches introducing this amendment. AIPAC featured the amendment as a top legislative priority on its website. The measure passed in the Senate 100-0 on 12/1/11. Its provisions were included in H.R. 1540 of 4/14/11 (see this bill for more details on the amendment and the efforts to shape it).

See also: companion measure H.R. 1540 of 4/14/11

More on:

FY 2012 authorizations for Israeli anti-missile systems: S. 1253 of 6/22/11 on FY 12

Sanctions on Iran’s financial sector: H.R. 740 of 2/16/11, S. 366 of 2/16/11, H.R. 1905 of 5/13/11, S. 1048 of 5/23/11, H.R. 3439, H.R. 3508 11/22/11

Further Iran sanctions: H.R. 1655 of 4/15/11, H.R. 2105 of 6/3/11, S. 1496 of 8/2/11, H.R. 2998 of 9/21/11 and S. 1619 of 9/22/11

Relocating the U.S. embassy: H.R. 1006 of 3/10/11, H. Res. 291 of 6/1/11, H.R. 2583 of 7/19/11, and S. 1622 of 9/23/11

AIPAC legislative priorities: S. Res. 180 of 5/11/11

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