[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6060 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6060

To prohibit any United States assistance from being made available for 
  programs, projects, or activities located in Palestinian-controlled 
      areas of Judea and Samaria or Gaza, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 25, 2023

 Mr. Ogles (for himself, Mr. Donalds, Mr. Norman, Mr. Weber of Texas, 
Mr. DesJarlais, Ms. Boebert, Mrs. Miller of Illinois, and Mr. Moore of 
   Alabama) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit any United States assistance from being made available for 
  programs, projects, or activities located in Palestinian-controlled 
      areas of Judea and Samaria or Gaza, 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 ``Defunding Israel's Enemies Act''.

SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    It is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) the brutal assault by Hamas and other Palestinian 
        terrorist groups against the State of Israel, beginning on 
        October 7, 2023, constitutes a decades-long continuation of 
        efforts to irreparably undermine the sovereignty of the State 
        of Israel;
            (2) the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (referred to as 
        the ``IRGC''), a paramilitary militant organization designated 
        as a foreign terrorist organization on April 15, 2019, has been 
        cited by Hamas as actively engaging in planning for the land, 
        sea, and air invasions of the State of Israel, and as of 
        October 15, 2023, at least 30 United States citizens are dead 
        and at least 13 are missing as a result of these attacks;
            (3) on September 11, 2023, the Biden administration chose 
        to facilitate the transfer of $6,000,000,000 in funds to Tehran 
        as part of a prisoner exchange, allowing the Iranian regime to 
        potentially repurpose other funds for IRGC-supported terrorist 
        activities;
            (4) on September 28, 2023, in contradiction of United 
        States and Israeli security interests, 81 Members of Congress 
        voted against an amendment to prohibit the use of funds to 
        delist the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign 
        terrorist organization;
            (5) as Israelis work to defend their nation against an 
        unprovoked and evil assault, it is essential to United States 
        and Israeli security interests that United States-elected 
        officials demonstrate unmitigated unity in support for Israel. 
        To this end, the Biden administration should--
                    (A) fully apply and preferably expand the funding 
                limitation in the Taylor Force Act (22 U.S.C. 2378c-1) 
                to ensure that United States taxpayer dollars are not 
                working against Israel's heroic efforts; and
                    (B) in tandem with partners overseas, ensure that 
                the terrorist organizations waging war against Israel 
                are regularly denied financing;
            (6) until such time as Israel's enemies are fully defeated, 
        no ally or partner of the United States should, either directly 
        or indirectly, provide support for Hezbollah, the Palestinian 
        Authority, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and any 
        successor or affiliated organizations, to include Hamas, the 
        Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Lions' Den;
            (7) as President George W. Bush remarked before a joint 
        session of Congress in September 2001, ``Every nation, in every 
        region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or 
        you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation 
        that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded 
        by the United States as a hostile regime.'';
            (8) several nations, including Saudi Arabia, Iraq, 
        Pakistan, Turkey, Tunisia, Oman, and Kuwait have issued 
        statements of condemnation against Israel. Qatar's Ministry of 
        Foreign Affairs also issued a statement that implicated Israel 
        as ``solely responsible for the ongoing escalation''. In that 
        statement, the Qataris specifically stressed their ``unwavering 
        stance on the justice of the Palestinian cause'' and for the 
        ``international community to compel Israel to cease its blatant 
        violation of international law'';
            (9) nations that have historically benefitted from robust 
        United States support should exercise extreme caution in 
        undermining the United States greatest ally in the Middle East;
            (10) Israel has regularly and repeatedly offered the 
        Palestinians their own state and the ability to live side-by-
        side in peace with their neighbors;
            (11) the Palestinian people have largely responded to such 
        overtures by attacking Israel's right to exist; and
            (12) if Palestinian terrorists refuse to accept Israel's 
        right to exist, and instead continue to resort to the senseless 
        murder of countless Israeli civilians, the only tenable 
        solution is a one-state solution with Jerusalem as the 
        undivided capital of the State of Israel.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION OF ASSISTANCE TO THE JUDEA AND SAMARIA AREA AND 
              GAZA.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no Federal funds may be 
made available for any program, project, or activity located in any 
Palestinian-controlled area of Judea and Samaria or Gaza until the 
President of the United States, acting through the Secretary of State, 
certifies in writing to the appropriate congressional committees that 
those responsible for the October 2023 attack against the State of 
Israel (including Hamas and Hezbollah) have agreed to a permanent 
cessation of hostilities.

SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act, the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' 
means--
            (1) the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on 
        Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives; and
            (2) the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on 
        Foreign Relations of the Senate.
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