[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 45 (Wednesday, March 13, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S1852]
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SA 199. Mr. VAN HOLLEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the joint resolution S.J. Res. 7, to direct the removal of
United States Armed Forces from hostilities in the Republic of Yemen
that have not been authorized by Congress; which was ordered to lie on
the table; as follows:
At the end, add the following:
SEC. 6. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO PERSONS
RESPONSIBLE FOR KILLING OF JAMAL KHASHOGGI.
(a) In General.--On and after the date of the enactment of
this Act, the President shall impose the sanctions described
in subsection (b) with respect to any foreign person the
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency assesses, with
high confidence, before, on, or after such date of enactment,
is responsible for, or complicit in ordering, controlling, or
otherwise directing, the extrajudicial killing of Jamal
Khashoggi.
(b) Sanctions Described.--The sanctions to be imposed under
subsection (a) with respect to a foreign person are the
following:
(1) Blocking of property.--
(A) In general.--The blocking, in accordance with the
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701
et seq.), of all transactions in all property and interests
in property of the foreign person if such property and
interests in property are in the United States, come within
the United States, or are or come within the possession or
control of a United States person.
(B) Inapplicability of national emergency requirement.--The
requirements of section 202 of the International Emergency
Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701) shall not apply for
purposes of this subsection.
(2) Inadmissibility to united states.--In the case of a
foreign person who is an individual--
(A) ineligibility to receive a visa to enter the United
States or to be admitted to the United States; or
(B) if the individual has been issued a visa or other
documentation, revocation, in accordance with section 221(i)
of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1201(i)), of
the visa or other documentation.
(c) Exceptions.--
(1) Importation of goods.--The requirement to impose
sanctions under subsection (b)(1) shall not include the
authority to impose sanctions with respect to the importation
of goods.
(2) Compliance with international obligations.--Subsection
(b)(2) shall not apply with respect to the admission of an
alien to the United States if such admission is necessary to
comply with United States obligations under the Agreement
between the United Nations and the United States of America
regarding the Headquarters of the United Nations, signed at
Lake Success June 26, 1947, and entered into force November
21, 1947, under the Convention on Consular Relations, done at
Vienna April 24, 1963, and entered into force March 19, 1967,
or under other international agreements.
(d) Implementation; Penalties.--
(1) Implementation.--The President may exercise all
authorities provided under sections 203 and 205 of the
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702
and 1704) to carry out this section.
(2) Penalties.--A person that violates, attempts to
violate, conspires to violate, or causes a violation of
subsection (b)(1) or any regulation, license, or order issued
to carry out that subsection shall be subject to the
penalties set forth in subsections (b) and (c) of section 206
of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C.
1705) to the same extent as a person that commits an unlawful
act described in subsection (a) of that section.
(e) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Admitted; alien.--The terms ``admitted'' and ``alien''
have the meanings given those terms in section 101 of the
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101).
(2) Foreign person.--The term ``foreign person'' means a
person that is not a United States person.
(3) United states person.--The term ``United States
person'' means--
(A) a United States citizen or an alien lawfully admitted
for permanent residence to the United States; or
(B) an entity organized under the laws of the United States
or any jurisdiction within the United States, including a
foreign branch of such an entity.
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