I 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5648 
To improve defense cooperation between the United States and the Hashemite 
Kingdom of Jordan. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 18, 2014 
Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To improve defense cooperation between the United States 
and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘United States-Jordan 
Defense Cooperation Act of 2014’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) From the $2,400,000,000 in total United 
States multilateral funding for the Syrian humani-
tarian crisis, the United States Government has pro-
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vided $268,000,000 to the Hashemite Kingdom of 
Jordan. 
(2) As of August 2014, the United Nations 
High Commissioner for Refugees estimates there are 
more than 600,000 registered Syrian refugees in 
Jordan. 
(3) Jordan estimates that more than 800,000 
unregistered refugees are in Jordan living outside of 
refugee camps, assimilated into local communities, 
which would bring the total to approximately 
1,400,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan. 
(4) In February 2014, President Obama an-
nounced that the United States and Jordan will 
renew the non-binding memorandum of under-
standing that was signed in 2008 to provide assist-
ance to Jordan over a 5-year period that reinforces 
the commitment to broaden cooperation and dia-
logue between the two countries in a variety of 
areas. 
(5) In 2000, the United States and Jordan 
signed a free-trade agreement that went into force 
in 2001. 
(6) In 1996, the United States granted Jordan 
major non-NATO ally status. 
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(7) Jordan is suffering from the Syrian refugee 
crisis and the threat of the Islamic State of Iraq and 
the Levant (ISIL). 
(8) The Government of Jordan was elected as 
a non-permanent member of the United Nations Se-
curity Council beginning in January 2014 and ter-
minating in December 2015. 
(9) Enhanced support for defense cooperation 
with Jordan is important to the national security of 
the United States, including through creation of a 
status in law for Jordan similar to the countries in 
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Japan, 
Australia, the Republic of Korea, Israel, and New 
Zealand, with respect to consideration by Congress 
of foreign military sales to Jordan. 
SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
It should be the policy of the United States to sup-
port the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in its response 
to the Syrian refugee crisis, provide necessary assistance 
to alleviate the domestic burden to provide basic needs for 
the assimilated Syrian refugees, cooperate with Jordan to 
combat the terrorist threat from the Islamic State of Iraq 
and the Levant (ISIL) or other terrorist organizations, 
and help secure the border between Jordan and its neigh-
bors Syria and Iraq. 
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SEC. 4. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that expeditious consider-
ation of certifications of letters of offer to sell defense arti-
cles, defense services, design and construction services, 
and major defense equipment to the Hashemite Kingdom 
of Jordan under section 36(b) of the Arms Export Control 
Act (22 U.S.C. 2776(b)) is fully consistent with United 
States security and foreign policy interests and the objec-
tives of world peace and security. 
SEC. 5. AMENDMENTS TO ARMS EXPORT CONTROL ACT. 
The Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2751 et 
seq.) is amended— 
(1) in section 3 (22 U.S.C. 2753)— 
(A) in subsection (b)(2), by inserting ‘‘the 
Government of Jordan,’’ before ‘‘or the Govern-
ment of New Zealand’’; and 
(B) in subsection (d)— 
(i) in paragraph (2)(B), by inserting ‘‘ 
Jordan,’’ before ‘‘or New Zealand’’; 
(ii) in paragraph (3)(A)(i), by insert-
ing ‘‘ Jordan,’’ before ‘‘or New Zealand’’; 
and 
(iii) in paragraph (5), by inserting ‘‘ 
Jordan,’’ before ‘‘or New Zealand’’; 
(2) in section 21 (22 U.S.C. 2761)— 
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