- United States
- Colo.
- Letter
NO NDAA WITH SECTION 219 OR ICC IMPUNITY
To: Rep. Crow
From: A verified voter in Littleton, CO
July 22
As your constituent, I demand that you publicly oppose Section 219 and the Gottheimer–Tenney ICC provision and commit to voting NO on any final NDAA containing either one.
Luna Amendment #1394/Floor Amendment 320 was bundled into an en-bloc package and adopted by voice vote, denying constituents a separate recorded vote. It does not remove Section 219. It merely deletes cosmetic wording while preserving the Pentagon directive to integrate Israeli-origin technology into U.S. military systems, expand coproduction and establish a permanent executive agent to advance U.S.–Israel military-industrial cooperation.
The Gottheimer–Tenney Amendment #1255/Floor Amendment 25 was also bundled and adopted by voice vote. It directs the State and Defense Departments to pressure NATO and major non-NATO allies not to enforce ICC warrants against members of allied militaries. This attacks independent accountability and encourages countries that ratified the Rome Statute to disregard their legal obligation to cooperate with the Court. The ICC is complementary to national courts and intervenes only when states are unwilling or unable genuinely to investigate or prosecute grave international crimes.
Because neither amendment received a separate recorded vote, you must make your position public. Demand that both provisions be removed in the Senate or conference negotiations, and vote NO on any conference report or final NDAA that retains Section 219 or the Gottheimer–Tenney ICC provision.