[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 122 (Thursday, July 2, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S4238]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  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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