[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2892 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2892

To promote the prosecution and enforcement of frauds against the United 
   States by suspending the statute of limitations during times when 
           Congress has authorized the use of military force.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               April 18 (legislative day, April 17), 2008

Mr. Leahy (for himself and Mr. Grassley) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To promote the prosecution and enforcement of frauds against the United 
   States by suspending the statute of limitations during times when 
           Congress has authorized the use of military force.

    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 ``Wartime Enforcement of Fraud Act of 
2008''.

SEC. 2. SUSPENSION OF STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS WHEN CONGRESS HAS 
              AUTHORIZED THE USE OF MILITARY FORCE.

    Section 3287 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``or Congress has enacted a specific 
        authorization for the use of the Armed Forces, as described in 
        section 5(b) of the War Powers Resolution (50 U.S.C. 
        1544(b)),'' after ``is at war'';
            (2) by inserting ``or directly connected with or related to 
        the authorized use of the Armed Forces'' after ``prosecution of 
        the war'';
            (3) by striking ``three years'' and inserting ``5 years'';
            (4) by striking ``proclaimed by the President'' and 
        inserting ``proclaimed by a Presidential proclamation, with 
        notice to Congress,''; and
            (5) by adding at the end the following: ``For purposes of 
        applying such definitions in this section, the term `war' 
        includes a specific authorization for the use of the Armed 
        Forces, as described in section 5(b) of the War Powers 
        Resolution (50 U.S.C. 1544(b)).''.
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