[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 94 (Thursday, June 7, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3332]
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  SA 2429. Mr. INHOFE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 2282 submitted by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr. McCain) 
and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2019 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 end of subtitle G of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 12__. TREATMENT OF RWANDAN PATRIOTIC FRONT AND RWANDAN 
                   PATRIOTIC ARMY UNDER IMMIGRATION AND 
                   NATIONALITY ACT.

       (a) Removal of Treatment as Terrorist Organizations.--
       (1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), the 
     Rwandan Patriotic Front and the Rwandan Patriotic Army shall 
     be excluded from the definition of terrorist organization (as 
     defined in section 212(a)(3)(B)(vi)(III) of the Immigration 
     and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(3)(B)(vi)(III))) for 
     purposes of such section 212(a)(3)(B) for any period before 
     August 1, 1994.
       (2) Exception.--
       (A) In general.--The Secretary of State, in consultation 
     with the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Attorney 
     General, or the Secretary of Homeland Security, in 
     consultation with the Secretary of State and the Attorney 
     General, as applicable, may suspend the application of 
     paragraph (1) for the Rwandan Patriotic Front or the Rwandan 
     Patriotic Army in the sole and unreviewable discretion of 
     such applicable Secretary.
       (B) Report.--Not later than, or contemporaneously with, a 
     suspension of paragraph (1) under subparagraph (A), the 
     Secretary of State or the Secretary of Homeland Security, as 
     applicable, shall submit to the appropriate committees of 
     Congress a report on the justification for such suspension.
       (b) Relief From Inadmissibility.--
       (1) Activities before august 1, 1994.--Section 212(a)(3)(B) 
     of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
     1182(a)(3)(B)) shall not apply to an alien with respect to 
     any activity undertaken by the alien in association with the 
     Rwandan Patriotic Front or the Rwandan Patriotic Army before 
     August 1, 1994.
       (2) Exception.--
       (A) In general.--Paragraph (1) shall not apply if the 
     Secretary of State or the Secretary of Homeland Security, as 
     applicable, determines in the sole unreviewable discretion of 
     such applicable Secretary that, in the totality of the 
     circumstances, such alien--
       (i) poses a threat to the safety and security of the United 
     States; or
       (ii) does not merit a visa, admission to the United States, 
     or a grant of an immigration benefit or protection.
       (B) Implementation.--Subparagraph (A) shall be implemented 
     by the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland 
     Security, in consultation with the Attorney General.
       (c) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this 
     section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' 
     means--
       (1) the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee on 
     Foreign Relations, the Committee on Homeland Security and 
     Governmental Affairs, and the Committee on Appropriations of 
     the Senate; and
       (2) the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee on 
     Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Homeland Security, and the 
     Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.
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