U.S. Senate · 117th Congress · S. 4366
DEFEND Act of 2022
A bill to require the Secretary of Defense to seek to cooperate with allies and partners in the Middle East to identify an architecture and develop an acquisition approach for certain countries in the Middle East to implement an integrated air and missile defense capability to protect the people, infrastructure, and territory of such countries from cruise and ballistic missiles, manned and unmanned aerial system, and rocket attacks from Iran, and for other purposes.
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- Sponsor
- Joni ErnstR-IA
- Introduced
- June 9, 2022, in the Senate
- Issue areas
- Policy area
- International Affairs (from the Congressional Research Service)
- Full text and actions
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Votes on this bill (0)
Neither the House nor the Senate has held a roll-call vote on this bill.
Cosponsors (8)
4 Democrats, 4 Republicans. Each member is shown with the party they were counted with on the day they signed on. How we count these
Original cosponsors
- Cory A. BookerD-NJ
- James LankfordR-OK
- Jacky RosenD-NV
Signed on later
- Chuck GrassleyR-IAJune 16, 2022
- Catherine Cortez MastoD-NVSeptember 7, 2022
- Kirsten E. GillibrandD-NYSeptember 7, 2022
- Marco RubioR-FLSeptember 7, 2022
- Tim ScottR-SCSeptember 7, 2022