[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 68 (Tuesday, April 20, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2087-S2088]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           TEXT OF AMENDMENTS

  SA 1447. Mr. LANKFORD (for himself, Mr. Inhofe, and Mr. Daines) 
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 
937, to facilitate the expedited review of COVID-19 hate crimes, and 
for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of section 2, add the following:
       (c) Abortions Based on Race, Ethnicity, Color, National 
     Origin, Sex, or Disability, Including a Chromosomal 
     Disorder.--
       (1) Reporting.--
       (A) In general.--For the purposes of facilitating expedited 
     review under subsection (a), the Attorney General shall 
     include any abortion committed against an unborn child based 
     on the race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex, or 
     disability, including a chromosomal disorder, of the unborn 
     child.
       (B) Rule of construction.--Nothing in subparagraph (A) 
     shall be construed to create an offense or an additional 
     category of hate crime.
       (2) Hold harmless.--A woman upon whom an abortion is 
     performed based on the race, ethnicity, color, national 
     origin, sex, or disability, including a chromosomal disorder, 
     of the unborn child may not be prosecuted or held civilly 
     liable on that basis under any provision of Federal law.
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  SA 1448. Mrs. BLACKBURN submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed by her to the bill S. 937, to facilitate the expedited review 
of COVID-

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19 hate crimes, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the 
table; as follows:

       At the end of section 2, add the following:
       (c) Investigation of Origins of COVID-19.--
       (1) In general.--The Attorney General, in coordination with 
     the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary 
     of State, shall establish an independent fact-finding 
     commission to investigate the origins of COVID-19 virus.
       (2) Report on findings.--Not later than September 1, 2021, 
     the commission established under paragraph (1) shall submit 
     to Congress a report of findings and conclusions based on the 
     investigation required to be conducted by the commission.

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