[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 122 (Thursday, July 2, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S4238]
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SA 2428. Ms. HARRIS (for herself, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Blumenthal, and Mr.
Sasse) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the
bill S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2021 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, insert the following:
SEC. ___. DISCLOSURE OF STATUS BY NEWS OUTLETS THAT ARE
AGENTS OF A FOREIGN PRINCIPAL.
Section 4(b) of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of
1938, as amended (22 U.S.C. 614(b)) is amended by inserting
after the first sentence the following: ``It shall be
unlawful for any news or press service or association,
newspaper, magazine, periodical, or other publication that is
an agent of a foreign principal and required to register
under the provisions of this Act to fail to include in any
transmission in the United States mails or any transmission
made by any means or instrumentality of interstate or foreign
commerce (including a transmission by radio, television, or
the internet) that is transmitted into the United States a
conspicuous statement that the transmission is made by an
agent of a foreign principal, and that additional information
is on file with the Department of Justice, Washington,
District of Columbia.''.
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