[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7981 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7981

 To prohibit the use of Federal funds to refer to the head of state of 
   the People's Republic of China as ``President'' on United States 
    Government documents and communications, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 7, 2020

  Mr. Perry introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit the use of Federal funds to refer to the head of state of 
   the People's Republic of China as ``President'' on United States 
    Government documents and communications, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Name the Enemy Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) The leadership of the People's Republic of China has 
        gone unchallenged in its perverse pursuits of human rights 
        abuses across decades, including--
                    (A) murdering untold numbers of pro-Democracy 
                protestors at Tiananmen Square in 1988;
                    (B) harvesting the organs of up to thousands of 
                Chinese citizens every year, especially targeting Falun 
                Gong practitioners;
                    (C) imprisoning between 800,000 and 2,000,000 
                Uighers and ethnic Kazaks in ``re-education'' camps 
                since April 2017;
                    (D) condoning and facilitating the practice of 
                forced abortions, sterilization procedures, and other 
                forms of sexual abuse on women imprisoned in these 
                camps;
                    (E) arresting and silencing whistleblowers 
                following the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 virus; and
                    (F) using the People's Armed Forces Maritime 
                Militia (PAFMM) and other paramilitary forces to 
                constantly infringe upon the sovereignty of surrounding 
                countries, including in April 2020, when a Chinese 
                maritime surveillance vessel sank a Vietnamese fishing 
                boat off the Paracel Islands.
            (2) Such blatant disregard for basic human decency run 
        contrary to the well-functioning of an open and civilized 
        society.
            (3) Ultimate responsibility for these outrages must lie 
        with the head of state of the People's Republic of China.
            (4) The title of ``President'' has often been utilized to 
        describe the office of the head of state of the People's 
        Republic of China, in both the United States Government and 
        private publications.
            (5) Addressing the head of state of the People's Republic 
        of China as a ``President'' grants the incorrect assumption 
        that the people of the state, via democratic means, have 
        readily legitimized the leader who rules them.
            (6) The head of state of the People's Republic of China 
        derives all power and authority from the Chinese Communist 
        Party, and is accountable only to them.
            (7) The House of Representatives has based the proposed 
        action described in this resolution on the recommendations 
        provided by the 2019 report of the U.S.-China Economic and 
        Security Review Commission.

SEC. 3. UNITED STATES POLICY.

    It is the policy of the United States to--
            (1) condemn in the strongest possible terms the horrific 
        human rights abuses being perpetuated and enabled by the 
        leadership of the Chinese Communist Party;
            (2) urge all countries to do the same;
            (3) recognize the deep friendship between the United States 
        and the citizens of the People's Republic of China--the first 
        victims of their government's cruelty; and
            (4) honor the memory of all those who have died as a result 
        of the callous rule of the Chinese Communist Party.

SEC. 4. PROHIBITION ON USING FEDERAL FUNDS TO REFER TO THE HEAD OF 
              STATE OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA AS ``PRESIDENT'' 
              ON UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS AND COMMUNICATIONS.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Federal Government 
may not obligate or expend any funds for the creation and dissemination 
of United States Government documents and communications that refer to 
the head of state of the People's Republic of China as anything other 
than ``General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Chinese 
Communist Party'', or alternatively, as ``General Secretary''.
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