LIMITATION ON RESCISSION OF PROHIBITIONS APPLICABLE TO TERRORIST COUNTRIES.

SEC. 321. LIMITATION ON RESCISSION OF PROHIBITIONS APPLICABLE TO TERRORIST COUNTRIES. Section 40(f) of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2780(f)) is amended— (1) by redesignating subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) of each of paragraphs (1) and (2) as clauses (i), (ii), and (iii), respectively; (2) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively; (3) by inserting “(1)” immediately after “(f) Rescission.—”; and (4) by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: “(2)(A) No rescission under paragraph (1)(B) of a determination under subsection (d) may be made if the Congress, within 45 days after receipt of a report under paragraph (1)(B), enacts a joint resolution the matter after the resolving clause of which is as follows: ‘That the proposed rescission of the determination under section 40(d) of the Arms Export Control Act pursuant to the report submitted to the Congress on ________ is hereby prohibited.’, the blank to be completed with the appropriate date. “(B) A joint resolution described in subparagraph (A) and introduced within the appropriate 45-day period shall be considered in the Senate and the House of Representatives in accordance with paragraphs (3) through (7) of section 8066(c) of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act (as contained in Public Law 98–473), except that references in such paragraphs to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate shall be deemed to be references to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, respectively.”.