[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 188 (Tuesday, October 26, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S7381]
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SA 3898. Ms. WARREN 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 ALL COMPREHENSIVE SANCTIONS IMPOSED ON
FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS.
(a) In General.--Not later than one year after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the
United States, in consultation with the Secretary of State,
the Secretary of the Treasury, and the head of any other
relevant Federal department or agency that the Comptroller
General determines necessary, shall submit to the appropriate
congressional committees a report on all comprehensive
sanctions imposed, under any provision of law, on--
(1) de jure or de facto governments of foreign countries;
and
(2) non-state actors that exercise significant de facto
governmental control over a foreign civilian population.
(b) Matters to Be Included.--The report required by
subsection (a) shall include--
(1) an assessment of the effect of sanctions imposed on
each government described in paragraph (1) of that subsection
and each non-state actor described in paragraph (2) of that
subsection on--
(A) the ability of the civilian population to access water,
food, sanitation, and public health services, including all
humanitarian aid and supplies related to the prevention,
diagnosis, and treatment of COVID-19;
(B) the changes to the general mortality rate, maternal
mortality rate, life expectancy, and literacy rate;
(C) the extent to which there is an increase in refugees or
migration to or from the country or an increase in internally
displaced people in the country;
(D) the degree of compliance and non-compliance of the
government or non-state actor with international humanitarian
assistance efforts; and
(E) the licensing of transactions to allow access to
essential goods and services to vulnerable populations,
including--
(i) the number of licenses applied for, approved, or
denied;
(ii) in cases of license applications that were denied, the
reasons why such application were denied; and
(iii) the average time to receive a decision; and
(2) a description of the purpose of sanctions imposed on
each such government and non-state actor and the required
legal or political authority, including--
(A) an assessment of the role of United States national
security;
(B) an assessment of whether the stated foreign policy
goals of the sanctions are being met;
(C) the degree of international support or opposition to
the sanctions; and
(D) an assessment of the effect of such sanctions on United
States businesses, consumers, and financial institutions.
(c) Form.--The report required by subsection (a) shall be
submitted in unclassified form, but may contain a classified
annex. The unclassified portion of the report shall be
published on a publicly available internet website of the
Government of the United States.
(d) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.--In this
section, the term ``appropriate congressional committees''
means--
(1) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on
Financial Services, and the Committee on Ways and Means of
the House of Representatives; and
(2) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and the Committee on
Finance of the Senate.
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