[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 194 (Thursday, November 4, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7878-S7879]
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  SA 4355. Mr. RUBIO 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 A of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1004. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE OFFICE OF 
                   CUBA BROADCASTING.

       There is authorized to be appropriated to the United States 
     Agency for Global Media not less than $29,144,000 for fiscal 
     year 2022 for the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, of which not 
     less than $3,000,000 should be used--
       (1) to deliver satellite-based broadband Internet services 
     to the people of Cuba to give them unfettered access to the 
     open Internet;
       (2) to create an access point for the satellite broadband 
     through a Radio Television Marti website that acts as a news 
     aggregator rather than solely serving as a content provider; 
     and

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       (3) to provide firewall circumvention tools to the people 
     of Cuba.
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