[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 96 (Monday, June 11, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3688]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2679. Mr. MENENDEZ 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 D of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1239. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON IMPLEMENTATION OF SANCTIONS 
                   WITH RESPECT TO DEFENSE AND INTELLIGENCE 
                   SECTORS OF RUSSIAN FEDERATION.

       It is the sense of Congress that the President--
       (1) should acknowledge that the defense and intelligence 
     sectors of the Russian Federation attacked the United States 
     democratic process in 2016 and continue such activity to this 
     day;
       (2) should reiterate that the purpose of section 231 of the 
     Countering Russian Influence in Europe and Eurasia Act of 
     2017 (22 U.S.C. 9525) is to target those sectors with 
     sanctions until the Government of the Russian Federation has 
     made significant efforts to reduce the number and intensity 
     of cyber intrusions conducted by that Government;
       (3) should fully implement all mandatory provisions of the 
     Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act 
     (Public Law 115-144; 131 Stat. 866);
       (4) should use the leverage provided in such section 231 to 
     ensure that persons substantially reduce significant 
     transactions with persons that are part of, or operate for or 
     on behalf of, the defense or intelligence sectors of the 
     Government of the Russian Federation, as defined in guidance 
     required under subsection (d) of such section; and
       (5) as provided for in subsection (c) of such section, may 
     delay the imposition of sanctions under subsection (a) of 
     such section with respect to a person if the President 
     certifies to the appropriate congressional committees (as 
     defined in section 221 of the Countering Russian Influence in 
     Europe and Eurasia Act of 2017 (22 U.S.C. 9521)), not less 
     frequently than every 180 days while the delay is in effect, 
     that the person is substantially reducing the number of 
     significant transactions described in subsection (a) of such 
     section 231 in which that person engages.
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