[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2986 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2986

                To prohibit assistance to Saudi Arabia.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 10, 2007

  Mr. Weiner introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
   Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on 
 Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
                To prohibit assistance to Saudi Arabia.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Prohibit Aid to Saudi Arabia Act of 
2007''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) More than 50 percent of the funding for Hamas, a 
        Palestinian terrorist organization, comes from Saudi Arabia.
            (2) In its June 2004 report entitled ``Update on the Global 
        Campaign Against Terrorist Financing'', the Council on Foreign 
        Relations reported that ``We find it regrettable and 
        unacceptable that since September 11, 2001, we know of not a 
        single Saudi donor of funds to terrorist groups who has been 
        publicly punished.''.
            (3) Abu Zubaydah, an al Qaeda operative, admitted to his 
        American interrogators that al Qaeda had struck a deal with the 
        Saudi Royal Family to desist from violence in exchange for 
        Saudi financing.
            (4) On May 29, 2004, Saudi security forces allowed 16 
        kidnappers to escape at a residential compound in Khobar, Saudi 
        Arabia, after killing 16 westerners.
            (5) Al Qaeda terrorists who kidnapped and killed American 
        contractor Paul Johnson used official police uniforms and 
        vehicles received from sympathetic Saudi police officials.
            (6) Saudi Arabia denied United States officials access to 
        several suspects in the custody of the Government of Saudi 
        Arabia, including a Saudi Arabian citizen in detention for 
        months who had knowledge of extensive plans to inject poison 
        gas in the New York City subway system.
            (7) The Saudi Royal Family has provided cash payments in 
        the amount of $5,333 to each family of ``martyrs'' killed while 
        trying to murder Israelis.
            (8) Saudi Arabia is the center of Wahhabism, the ultra-
        purist, jihadist form of Islam followed by members of Al Qaeda.
            (9) In November 2004, 26 leading Saudi Wahhabi clerics 
        publicly incited the Iraqi people to fight against United 
        States Armed Forces in Iraq.
            (10) The Saudi Royal Family has wholly or partly funded 210 
        Islamic Centers, 1,500 mosques, 202 colleges, and 2,000 schools 
        in countries without Muslim majorities.
            (11) The United States Commission on International 
        Religious Freedom has reported that Saudi Arabian Government-
        funded textbooks used both in Saudi Arabia and also in North 
        American Islamic schools and mosques have been found to 
        encourage incitement to violence against non-Muslims.
            (12) Khaled bin Ouda bin Mohammed al-Harby, the terrorist 
        who is linked to Osama bin Laden and the terrorist attacks 
        against the United States that occurred on September 11, 2001, 
        returned to Saudi Arabia under an amnesty program in June 2004, 
        and remains in that country, a free man.
            (13) In March 2004, a group of Saudi reformers calling for 
        a constitutional monarchy were imprisoned and are still 
        awaiting trial.
            (14) In September 2004, the Government of Saudi Arabia 
        issued an edict banning most working Saudis from questioning 
        the policies of the Saudi Arabian Government.
            (15) The Government of Saudi Arabia has sought to acquire 
        nuclear weaponry from Pakistan.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON FUNDING FOR SAUDI ARABIA.

    No funds appropriated or otherwise made available pursuant to an 
Act making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and 
related programs may be obligated or expended to finance directly any 
assistance or reparations to Saudi Arabia. For purposes of the 
preceding sentence, the prohibition on obligations or expenditures 
shall include direct loans, credits, insurance, and guarantees of the 
Export-Import Bank of the United States or its agents.
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