[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 104 (Thursday, June 20, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S4184]
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SA 810. Mr. TOOMEY (for himself and Mr. Carper) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 764 submitted by Mr.
Inhofe and intended to be proposed to the bill S. 1790, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2020 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. 1290. EXCLUSION OF IMPOSITION OF DUTIES AND IMPORT
QUOTAS FROM PRESIDENTIAL AUTHORITIES UNDER
INTERNATIONAL EMERGENCY ECONOMIC POWERS ACT.
Section 203 of the International Emergency Economic Powers
Act (50 U.S.C. 1702) is amended--
(1) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d); and
(2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following:
``(c)(1) The authority granted to the President by this
section does not include the authority to impose duties or
tariff-rate quotas or (subject to paragraph (2)) other quotas
on articles entering the United States.
``(2) The limitation under paragraph (1) does not prohibit
the President from excluding all articles, or all of a
certain type of article, imported from a country from
entering the United States.''.
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