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“And if I may, doing what the Senator from Arizona just did will also facilitate, hopefully, the acceptance of a unanimous consent request that there then be a cutoff as I described at perhaps noon or 1 o'clock today so we can know what the universe is and begin to whittle it down. I yield the floor. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will report by number the amendments called up by the Senator from Arizona. The bill clerk read as follows: The Senator from Arizona [Mr. McCain], proposes amendments numbered 1200, 1066, 1067 as modified, 1068, 1119, 1090, 1089, 1056, and 1116 en bloc. The amendments are as follows: amendment no. 1200 (Purpose: To provide Taiwan with critically needed United States-built multirole fighter aircraft to strengthen its self-defense capability against the increasing military threat from China) At the end of subtitle H of title X, add the following: SEC. 1088. SALE OF F-16 AIRCRAFT TO TAIWAN. (a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings: (1) The Department of Defense, in its 2011 report to Congress on ``Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China,'' found that ``China continued modernizing its military in 2010, with a focus on Taiwan contingencies, even as cross-Strait relations improved. The PLA seeks the capability to deter Taiwan independence and influence Taiwan to settle the dispute on Beijing's terms.…”