1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Preventing Actions Undermining Security without Endorsement Act or the PAUSE Act . 2. Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) The COVID–19 global pandemic has highlighted the need for United States leadership to address the full range of international security challenges, which the Government of the United States can do by reaffirming its steadfast commitment to those mutually beneficial treaties and agreements forged with its European and Indo-Pacific allies, along with other states parties. (2) For more than 70 years, the United States has shown a bipartisan commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), specifically to the principle of collective defense enshrined in Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, signed at Washington April 4, 1949. (3) Section 1242 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 ( Public Law 116–92 ) prohibited the use of funds for the United States withdrawal from the North Atlantic Treaty in recognition that the NATO alliance remains a cornerstone for peace and prosperity throughout the world. (4) On January 22, 2019, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 676 (116th Congress) on a 357–22 vote, prohibiting the use of funds for the United States withdrawal from the North Atlantic Treaty, and on December 17, 2019, the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate reported out S.J. Res. 4 (116th Congress), which if enacted into law, would require approval of two-thirds of the Senate, or both Houses of Congress, before the President could withdraw the United States from the treaty. (5) The Treaty on Open Skies, signed at Helsinki March 24, 1992, provides a critical confidence-building measure for Euro-Atlantic security to the mutual benefit of the 34 States Parties to the treaty, and the Open Skies Consultative Commission (OSCC) is one of the few remaining operational diplomatic forums from which the United States can engage with the Russian Federation. (6) Although the Government of the United