[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 140 (Thursday, August 6, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S5300]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2599. Mr. LEE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 2499 proposed by Mr. McConnell to the bill S. 178, to 
condemn gross human rights violations of ethnic Turkic Muslims in 
Xinjiang, and calling for an end to arbitrary detention, torture, and 
harassment of these communities inside and outside China; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. __. ELIMINATION OF MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT REQUIREMENTS.

       (a) In General.--Section 6008 of the Families First 
     Coronavirus Response Act (Public Law 116-127) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (b), by striking ``with respect to a 
     quarter'' and all that follows through ``the State does not'' 
     and inserting ``with respect to a quarter, if the State does 
     not''; and
       (2) by striking subsection (d).
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection 
     (a)(1) shall take effect as if included in the enactment of 
     the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (Public Law 116-
     127).
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