[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 24 (Wednesday, February 10, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Pages S828-S829]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           TEXT OF AMENDMENTS

  SA 3297. Mr. HELLER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill H.R. 757, to improve the enforcement of sanctions 
against the Government of North Korea, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       On page 91, between lines 19 and 20, insert the following:
       (e) Withholding of Funding.--The President shall 
     temporarily withhold United States' funding from the United 
     Nations if the United Nations Security Council does not make 
     a decision regarding a reported violation of any applicable 
     United Nations Security Council resolution relating to 
     prohibitions on ballistic missile testing or prohibitions on 
     activities aimed at obtaining nuclear weapons within 30 days 
     after receiving information of such a violation.
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  SA 3298. Mr. HELLER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill H.R. 757, to improve the enforcement of sanctions 
against the Government of North Korea, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       On page 71, between lines 6 and 7, insert the following:
       (c) State Sponsor of Terrorism.--Not later than 60 days 
     after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
     State shall--
       (1) conduct an investigation of the conduct of the 
     Government of North Korea to determine if North Korea should 
     be designated as a state sponsor of terrorism (as defined in 
     section 202(d)); and
       (2) submit a report to Congress that describes the evidence 
     used by the Department of State to reach the determination 
     described in paragraph (1).
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  SA 3299. Mr. HELLER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill H.R. 757, to improve the enforcement of sanctions 
against the Government of North Korea, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. __. RECOGNITION OF JERUSALEM AS THE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL 
                   AND RELOCATION OF THE UNITED STATES EMBASSY TO 
                   JERUSALEM.

       (a) Statement of Policy.--It should be the policy of the 
     United States to recognize Jerusalem as the undivided capital 
     of the State of Israel, both de jure and de facto.
       (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
       (1) Jerusalem must remain an undivided city in which the 
     rights of every ethnic and religious group are protected as 
     they have been by Israel since 1967;
       (2) every citizen of Israel should have the right to reside 
     anywhere in the undivided city of Jerusalem;
       (3) the President and the Secretary of State should 
     publicly affirm as a matter of United States policy that 
     Jerusalem must remain the undivided capital of the State of 
     Israel;
       (4) the President should immediately implement the 
     provisions of the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 (Public Law 
     104-45) and begin the process of relocating the United States 
     Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem;
       (5) United States officials should refrain from any actions 
     that contradict United States law on this subject; and
       (6) any official document of the United States Government 
     which lists countries and their capital cities should 
     identify Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
       (c) Amendment of Waiver Authority.--The Jerusalem Embassy 
     Act of 1995 (Public Law 104-45) is amended--
       (1) by striking section 7; and
       (2) by redesignating section 8 as section 7.
       (d) Restriction on Funding Subject to Opening 
     Determination.--Not more than 50 percent of the funds 
     appropriated to the Department of State for fiscal year 2016 
     for ``Acquisition and Maintenance of Buildings Abroad'' may 
     be obligated until the Secretary of State determines and 
     reports to Congress that the United States Embassy in 
     Jerusalem has officially opened.
       (e) Fiscal Years 2017 and 2018 Funding.--
       (1) Fiscal year 2017.--Of the funds authorized to be 
     appropriated for ``Acquisition and Maintenance of Buildings 
     Abroad'' for the Department of State for fiscal year 2017, 
     such sums as may be necessary should be made available until 
     expended only for construction and other costs associated 
     with the establishment of the United States Embassy in 
     Jerusalem.
       (2) Fiscal year 2018.--Of the funds authorized to be 
     appropriated for ``Acquisition and Maintenance of Buildings 
     Abroad'' for the Department of State for fiscal year 2018, 
     such sums as may be necessary should be made available until 
     expended only for construction and other costs associated 
     with the establishment of the United States Embassy in 
     Jerusalem.
       (f) Definition.--In this section, the term ``United States 
     Embassy'' means the offices of the United States diplomatic 
     mission and the residence of the United States chief of 
     mission.
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  SA 3300. Mr. LEE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill H.R. 757, to improve the enforcement of sanctions 
against the Government of North Korea, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of title III, add the following:

     SEC. 305. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON THE DISAPPEARANCE OF DAVID 
                   SNEDDON.

       (a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) David Louis Sneddon is a United States citizen who 
     disappeared while touring the Yunnan Province in the People's 
     Republic of China as a university student on August 14, 2004, 
     at the age of 24.
       (2) David had last reported to family members prior to his 
     disappearance that he intended to hike the Tiger Leaping 
     Gorge in the Yunnan Province before returning to the United 
     States and had placed a down payment on student housing for 
     the upcoming academic year, planned business meetings, and 
     scheduled law school entrance examinations in the United 
     States for the fall.
       (3) People's Republic of China officials have reported to 
     the Department of State and the family of David that he most 
     likely died by falling into the Jinsha River while hiking the 
     Tiger Leaping Gorge, although no physical evidence or 
     eyewitness testimony exists to support this conclusion.
       (4) There is evidence indicating that David did not fall 
     into the river when he traveled through the gorge, including 
     eyewitness testimonies from people who saw David alive and 
     spoke to him in person after his hike, as recorded by members 
     of David's family and by embassy officials from the 
     Department of State in the months after his disappearance.
       (5) Family members searching for David shortly after he 
     went missing obtained eyewitness accounts that David stayed 
     overnight in several guesthouses during and after his safe 
     hike through the gorge, and these guesthouse locations 
     suggest that David disappeared after passing through the 
     gorge, but the guest registers recording the names and 
     passport numbers of foreign overnight guests could not be 
     accessed.
       (6) Chinese officials have reported that evidence does not 
     exist that David was a victim of violent crime, or a resident 
     in a local hospital, prison, or mental institution at the 
     time of his disappearance, and no attempt has been made to 
     use David's passport since the time of his disappearance, nor 
     has any money been withdrawn from his bank account since that 
     time.
       (7) David Sneddon is the only United States citizen to 
     disappear without explanation in the People's Republic of 
     China since the normalization of relations between the United 
     States and China during the administration of President 
     Richard Nixon.
       (8) Investigative reporters and nongovernmental 
     organizations with expertise in the Asia-Pacific region, and 
     in some cases particular expertise in the Asian Underground 
     Railroad and North Korea's documented program to kidnap 
     citizens of foreign nations for espionage purposes, have 
     repeatedly raised the possibility that the Government of the 
     Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) was involved in 
     David's disappearance.
       (9) Investigative reporters and nongovernmental 
     organizations who have reviewed David's case believe it is 
     possible that the Government of North Korea was involved in 
     David's disappearance because--
       (A) the Yunnan Province is regarded by regional experts as 
     an area frequently trafficked by North Korean refugees and 
     their support networks, and the Government of the People's 
     Republic of China allows North Korean agents to operate 
     throughout the region to repatriate refugees, such as 
     prominent North Korean defector Kang Byong-sop and members of 
     his family who were captured near the China-Laos border just 
     weeks prior to David's disappearance;
       (B) in 2002, North Korean officials acknowledged that the 
     Government of North Korea has carried out a policy since the 
     1970's of abducting foreign citizens and holding them captive 
     in North Korea for the purpose of

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     training its intelligence and military personnel in critical 
     language and culture skills to infiltrate foreign nations;
       (C) Charles Robert Jenkins, a United States soldier who 
     deserted his unit in South Korea in 1965 and was held captive 
     in North Korea for nearly 40 years, left North Korea in July 
     2004 (one month before David disappeared in China) and 
     Jenkins reported that he was forced to teach English to North 
     Korean intelligence and military personnel while in 
     captivity;
       (D) David Sneddon is fluent in the Korean language and was 
     learning Mandarin, skills that could have been appealing to 
     the Government of North Korea after Charles Jenkins left the 
     country;
       (E) tensions between the United States and North Korea were 
     heightened during the summer of 2004 due to recent approval 
     of the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-
     333) that increased United States aid to refugees fleeing 
     North Korea, prompting the Government of North Korea to issue 
     a press release warning the United States to ``drop its 
     hostile policy'';
       (F) David Sneddon's disappearance fits a known pattern 
     often seen in the abduction of foreigners by the Government 
     of North Korea, including the fact that David disappeared the 
     day before North Korea's Liberation Day patriotic national 
     holiday, and the Government of North Korea has a demonstrated 
     history of provocations near dates it deems historically 
     significant;
       (G) a well-reputed Japanese non-profit specializing in 
     North Korean abductions shared with the United States its 
     expert analysis in 2012 about information it stated was 
     received ``from a reliable source'' that a United States 
     university student largely matching David Sneddon's 
     description was taken from China by North Korean agents in 
     August 2004; and
       (H) commentary published in the Wall Street Journal in 2013 
     cited experts looking at the Sneddon case who concluded that 
     ``it is most probable that a U.S. national has been abducted 
     to North Korea,'' and ``there is a strong possibility that 
     North Korea kidnapped the American''.
       (b) Sense of Congress.--Congress--
       (1) expresses its ongoing concern about the disappearance 
     of David Louis Sneddon in Yunnan Province, People's Republic 
     of China, in August, 2004;
       (2) directs the Department of State and the intelligence 
     community to jointly continue investigations and to consider 
     all plausible explanations for David's disappearance, 
     including the possibility of abduction by the Government of 
     the Democratic People's Republic of Korea;
       (3) urges the Department of State and the intelligence 
     community to coordinate investigations with the Governments 
     of the People's Republic of China, Japan, and South Korea and 
     solicit information from appropriate regional affairs and law 
     enforcement experts on plausible explanations for David's 
     disappearance;
       (4) encourages the Department of State and the intelligence 
     community to work with foreign governments known to have 
     diplomatic influence with the Government of the Democratic 
     People's Republic of Korea to better investigate the 
     possibility of the involvement of the Government of the 
     Democratic People's Republic of Korea in David Sneddon's 
     disappearance and to possibly seek his recovery; and
       (5) requests that the Department of State and the 
     intelligence community continue to work with and inform 
     Congress and the family of David Sneddon on efforts to 
     possibly recover David and to resolve his disappearance.
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  SA 3301. Mr. PAUL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill H.R. 757, to improve the enforcement of sanctions 
against the Government of North Korea, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       Beginning on page 92, strike line 15 and all that follows 
     through page 93, line 2.
       Beginning on page 100, strike line 24 and all that follows 
     through page 101, line 8.
       Beginning on page 112, strike line 9 and all that follows 
     through page 115, line 7.
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  SA 3302. Ms. KLOBUCHAR submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 2953 proposed by Ms. Murkowski to the bill S. 2012, to 
provide for the modernization of the energy policy of the United 
States, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; 
as follows:

       On page 41, between lines 10 and 11, insert the following:
       (6) Use of grant funds.--A grant awarded under this section 
     may not be used for the purpose of funding, in whole or in 
     part, the actual construction, renovation, repair, or 
     alteration of a building or work.
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  SA 3303. Ms. KLOBUCHAR submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 3241 submitted by Ms. Cantwell and intended to be 
proposed to the bill S. 2012, to provide for the modernization of the 
energy policy of the United States, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of the amendment, add the following:

     SEC. __. USE OF GRANT FUNDS.

       A grant awarded under section 1004 may not be used for the 
     purpose of funding, in whole or in part, the actual 
     construction, renovation, repair, or alteration of a building 
     or work.
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  SA 3304. Mr. DAINES submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill H.R. 757, to improve the enforcement of sanctions 
against the Government of North Korea, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       On page 73, line 12, insert ``or textile'' after 
     ``smuggling,''.
       Beginning on page 73, strike line 21 and all that follows 
     through page 74, line 8, and insert the following:
       (8) knowingly, directly or indirectly, sells, supplies, or 
     transfers to or from the Government of North Korea or any 
     person acting for or on behalf of that Government, a 
     significant amount of precious metal, graphite, raw or semi-
     finished metals or aluminum, steel, coal, software, synthetic 
     filaments, or three-dimensional textiles for use by or in 
     industrial processes directly related to weapons of mass 
     destruction, delivery systems for such weapons, equipment 
     designed to defend against radiological or chemical exposure 
     from those weapons, other proliferation activities, the 
     Korean Workers' Party, armed forces, internal security, or 
     intelligence activities, or the operation and maintenance of 
     political prison camps or forced labor camps, including 
     outside of North Korea;
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  SA 3305. Mr. THUNE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 2953 proposed by Ms. Murkowski to the bill S. 2012, to 
provide for the modernization of the energy policy of the United 
States, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; 
as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. MODIFICATION OF DEFINITION OF SPORT FISHING 
                   EQUIPMENT UNDER THE TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL 
                   ACT.

       Section 3(2)(B) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 
     U.S.C. 2602(2)(B)) is amended--
       (1) in clause (v), by striking ``and'' at the end;
       (2) in clause (vi) by striking the period at the end and 
     inserting ``, and''; and
       (3) by inserting after clause (vi) the following:
       ``(vii) any sport fishing equipment (as such term is 
     defined in section 4162(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986) the sale of which is subject to the tax imposed by 
     section 4161(a) of such Code (determined without regard to 
     any exemptions from such tax provided by section 4162 or 4221 
     or any other provision of such Code), and sport fishing 
     equipment components.''.

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