[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 194 (Thursday, November 4, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7991-S7992]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4500. Mr. RISCH (for himself, Mr. Portman, Mr. Cruz, Mr. Barrasso, 
Mr. Johnson, and Mr. Cotton) 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 D of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1237. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO NORD 
                   STREAM 2.

       (a) Imposition of Sanctions.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than 15 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the President shall--
       (A) impose sanctions under paragraph (2) with respect to--
       (i) any entity responsible for planning, construction, or 
     operation of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline or a successor 
     entity; and
       (ii) any other corporate officer of or principal 
     shareholder with a controlling interest in an entity 
     described in clause (i); and

[[Page S7992]]

       (B) impose sanctions under paragraph (3) with respect to 
     any entity responsible for planning, construction, or 
     operation of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline or a successor 
     entity.
       (2) Ineligibility for visas, admission, or parole of 
     identified persons and corporate officers.--
       (A) In general.--
       (i) Visas, admission, or parole.--An alien described in 
     paragraph (1)(A) is--

       (I) inadmissible to the United States;
       (II) ineligible to receive a visa or other documentation to 
     enter the United States; and
       (III) otherwise ineligible to be admitted or paroled into 
     the United States or to receive any other benefit under the 
     Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.).

       (ii) Current visas revoked.--

       (I) In general.--The visa or other entry documentation of 
     an alien described in paragraph (1)(A) shall be revoked, 
     regardless of when such visa or other entry documentation is 
     or was issued.
       (II) Immediate effect.--A revocation under subclause (I) 
     shall--

       (aa) take effect immediately; and
       (bb) automatically cancel any other valid visa or entry 
     documentation that is in the alien's possession.
       (3) Blocking of property of identified persons.--The 
     President shall exercise all powers granted to the President 
     by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 
     1701 et seq.) to the extent necessary to block and prohibit 
     all transactions in all property and interests in property of 
     an entity described in paragraph (1)(B) if such property and 
     interests in property are in the United States, come within 
     the United States, or are or come within the possession or 
     control of a United States person.
       (4) Implementation; penalties.--
       (A) Implementation.--The President may exercise all 
     authorities provided to the President under sections 203 and 
     205 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 
     U.S.C. 1702 and 1704) to carry out this subsection.
       (B) Penalties.--A person that violates, attempts to 
     violate, conspires to violate, or causes a violation of this 
     subsection or any regulation, license, or order issued to 
     carry out this subsection shall be subject to the penalties 
     set forth in subsections (b) and (c) of section 206 of the 
     International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) 
     to the same extent as a person that commits an unlawful act 
     described in subsection (a) of that section.
       (5) Exceptions.--
       (A) Exception for intelligence, law enforcement, and 
     national security activities.--Sanctions under this 
     subsection shall not apply to any authorized intelligence, 
     law enforcement, or national security activities of the 
     United States.
       (B) Exception to comply with united nations headquarters 
     agreement.--Sanctions under this subsection shall not apply 
     with respect to the admission of an alien to the United 
     States if the admission of the alien is necessary to permit 
     the United States to comply with the Agreement regarding the 
     Headquarters of the United Nations, signed at Lake Success 
     June 26, 1947, and entered into force November 21, 1947, 
     between the United Nations and the United States, the 
     Convention on Consular Relations, done at Vienna April 24, 
     1963, and entered into force March 19, 1967, or other 
     applicable international obligations.
       (C) Exception relating to importation of goods.--
       (i) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
     this subsection, the authorities and requirements to impose 
     sanctions under this subsection shall not include the 
     authority or a requirement to impose sanctions on the 
     importation of goods.
       (ii) Good defined.--In this subparagraph, the term ``good'' 
     means any article, natural or man-made substance, material, 
     supply or manufactured product, including inspection and test 
     equipment, and excluding technical data.
       (6) Sunset.--The authority to impose sanctions under this 
     subsection shall terminate on the date that is 5 years after 
     the date of the enactment of this Act.
       (7) Definitions.--In this subsection:
       (A) Admission; admitted; alien.--The terms ``admission'', 
     ``admitted'', and ``alien'' have the meanings given those 
     terms in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
     (8 U.S.C. 1101).
       (B) United states person.--The term ``United States 
     person'' means--
       (i) a United States citizen or an alien lawfully admitted 
     for permanent residence to the United States;
       (ii) an entity organized under the laws of the United 
     States or any jurisdiction within the United States, 
     including a foreign branch of such an entity; or
       (iii) any person within the United States.
       (b) Repeal of National Interest Waiver Under Protecting 
     Europe's Energy Security Act of 2019.--Section 7503 of the 
     Protecting Europe's Energy Security Act of 2019 (title LXXV 
     of Public Law 116-92; 22 U.S.C. 9526 note) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)(1)(C), by striking ``subsection (i)'' 
     and inserting ``subsection (h)'';
       (2) by striking subsection (f);
       (3) by redesignating subsections (g) through (k) as 
     subsections (f) through (j), respectively; and
       (4) in subsection (i), as redesignated by paragraph (3), by 
     striking ``subsection (h)'' and inserting ``subsection (g)''.
                                 ______