[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 127 (Thursday, July 27, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S4574]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 655. Ms. KLOBUCHAR (for herself, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Durbin, and 
Ms. Warren) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to 
the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2018 
for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in subtitle C of title XVI, insert 
     the following:

     SEC. ___. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FEDERAL FUNDS FOR JOINT 
                   CYBERSECURITY INTIATIVE WITH RUSSIA.

       (a) Prohibition.--No Federal funds may be used to 
     establish, support, or otherwise promote, directly or 
     indirectly, the formation of or any United States 
     participation in a joint cybersecurity initiative involving 
     the Government of the Russian Federation or any entity 
     operation under the direction of such government.
       (b) Waiver.--Prohibition imposed under subsection (a) shall 
     terminate on the date on which the President submits to the 
     congressional defense committees a written certification that 
     the Government of the Russian Federation has--
       (1) ceased ordering, controlling, or otherwise directing, 
     supporting, or financing, acts intended to undermine 
     democracies around the world; and
       (2) submitted a written statement acknowledging 
     interference in the 2016 United States presidential election.
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