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Title: DEFEND Act of 2022 Deterring Enemy Forces and Enabling National Defenses Act of 2022
Subject: International affairs
Description: To require the Secretary of Defense to seek cooperation 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 systems, and rocket attacks from Iran, and for other purposes.
Session: 117th Congress
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Middle East, North Africa and Global Counterterrorism.
Last Action Date: June 8, 2022
Link: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7987/all-info
Companion Bill: SB4366
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54 sponsors: Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R); Bradley Schneider (D); Ann Wagner (R); David Trone (D); Don Bacon (R); Jimmy Panetta (D); Elise Stefanik (R); Jeff Van Drew (R); Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R); Ritchie Torres (D); Stephanie Murphy (D); Brian Fitzpatrick (R); Josh Gottheimer (D); Lisa McClain (R); Kathy Manning (D); Suzanne Lee (D); Claudia Tenney (R); Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon (R); Rodney Davis (R); Carol Miller (R); David McKinley (R); Blake Moore (R); Bill Johnson (R); Patrick Fallon (R); Tracey Mann (R); Grace Meng (D); Tom Emmer (R); Suzan DelBene (D); Ted Budd (R); Lloyd Smucker (R); Vicky Hartzler (R); Kat Cammack (R); Adrian Smith (R); Jake Auchincloss (D); Pete Stauber (R); Randy Feenstra (R); David Valadao (R); Mike Johnson (R); Debbie Lesko (R); Christopher Pappas (D); John Katko (R); Michael Guest (R); John Rose (R); Mike Levin (D); Blaine Luetkemeyer (R); Marcy Kaptur (D); Lois Frankel (D); Maria Salazar (R); Steve Cohen (D); Alexander Mooney (R); Ben Cline (R); Barry Loudermilk (R); Ed Case (D); Susan Wild (D)
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| House | Jun 8 2022 | Introduced in House |
| House | Jun 8 2022 | Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. |
| House | Jun 8 2022 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Middle East, North Africa and Global Counterterrorism. |
| Type | Date | Federal Link | Text |
| Introduced | Jun 13 2022 | federal bill text | bill text |
| Title | Description | Date | State Link | Text | Adopted |
| There are no amendments to this bill at this time | |||||
Chamber: H
Committee Name: Subcommittee on Middle East, North Africa and Global Counterterrorism
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