[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 188 (Tuesday, October 26, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S7377]
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SA 3885. Mr. DURBIN (for himself, Mr. Leahy, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Booker,
and Mr. Murphy) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be proposed to
the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022
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 F of title XII, add the following:
SEC. 1264. REPORT ON INCIDENTS OF ARBITRARY DETENTION,
VIOLENCE, AND STATE-SANCTIONED HARASSMENT BY
THE GOVERNMENT OF EGYPT.
(a) In General.--Not later than 60 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in
consultation with the Secretary of Defense, shall submit to
the appropriate committees of Congress a report on incidents
of violence against, and arbitrary detention and state-
sanctioned harassment of, United States citizens, individuals
in the United States, and family members of such citizens and
individuals carried out by the security agencies of the
Government of Egypt in Egypt or the United States.
(b) Elements.--The report required by subsection (a) shall
include the following:
(1) A detailed description of any such incident during the
three-year period immediately preceding the date on which the
report is submitted.
(2) A determination of whether such incidents constitute a
pattern of acts of intimidation or harassment.
(3) A description of any action taken by the Secretary of
State to meaningfully deter such incidents.
(c) Form.--The report required by subsection (a) shall be
submitted in unclassified form, but may contain a classified
annex with respect to the elements described in paragraphs
(2) and (3) of subsection (b) if such classified annex is
provided separately.
(d) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this
section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress''
means--
(1) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on
Armed Services of the Senate; and
(2) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on
Armed Services of the House of Representatives.
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