[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2653 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2653

   To prohibit funding for heads of state meetings and multilateral 
           summits at any Trump Organization-owned property.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 21, 2019

 Mr. Merkley (for himself, Mr. Markey, and Ms. Hirono) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                           Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
   To prohibit funding for heads of state meetings and multilateral 
           summits at any Trump Organization-owned property.

    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 ``Scrutinizing White House Activities 
that Make Profits Act of 2019'' or the ``SWAMP Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) The United States Government directing business to a 
        property owned by the President of the United States 
        constitutes a profound financial conflict of interest.
            (2) The delegates to the Constitutional Convention included 
        the emoluments clause to the United States Constitution 
        (Article I, Section 9, Clause 8) to guard against the 
        corrupting influence of United States officeholders profiting 
        from gifts from foreign governments.
            (3) Many experts agree that a plain reading of the 
        emoluments clause prohibits the President from directing 
        business from a foreign state to a property owned by him.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON FUNDING FOR HEADS OF STATE MEETINGS AND 
              MULTILATERAL SUMMITS.

    (a) In General.--No funds appropriated or otherwise made available 
for fiscal year 2020 or any other fiscal year may be obligated or 
expended to host any head of state meeting or multilateral summit at a 
covered property.
    (b) Covered Property Defined.--For the purposes of the prohibition 
in subsection (a), the term ``covered property'' means--
            (1) Trump International Hotel, Washington DC;
            (2) Trump Tower, New York;
            (3) Trump National Doral Golf Resort;
            (4) Mar-a-Lago Club; and
            (5) any other property in which the President or his 
        immediate family holds a majority ownership.
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