[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 198 (Monday, November 15, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S8098-S8099]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4577. Mr. KENNEDY 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 B of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1216. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO 
                   TRANSACTIONS INVOLVING AFGHANISTAN'S RARE EARTH 
                   MINERALS.

       (a) In General.--The President shall impose the sanctions 
     described in subsection (b) with respect to each foreign 
     person the President determines engages, on or after the date 
     of the enactment of this Act, in any transaction involving 
     rare earth minerals mined or otherwise extracted in 
     Afghanistan.
       (b) Sanctions Described.--The sanctions to be imposed under 
     subsection (a) with respect to a foreign person are the 
     following:
       (1) Blocking of property.--The President shall exercise all 
     of the powers granted to the President under the 
     International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 
     et seq.) to the extent necessary to block and prohibit all 
     transactions in property and interests in property of the 
     foreign person 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.
       (2) Ineligibility for visas, admission, or parole.--
       (A) Visas, admission, or parole.--An alien described in 
     subsection (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.).
       (B) Current visas revoked.--
       (i) In general.--The visa or other entry documentation of 
     an alien described in subsection (a) shall be revoked, 
     regardless of when such visa or other entry documentation is 
     or was issued.
       (ii) Immediate effect.--A revocation under clause (i) 
     shall--

       (I) take effect immediately; and
       (II) automatically cancel any other valid visa or entry 
     documentation that is in the alien's possession.

       (c) Implementation; Penalties.--
       (1) Implementation.--The President may exercise all 
     authorities provided under sections 203 and 205 of the 
     International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702 
     and 1704) to carry out this section.
       (2) Penalties.--A person that violates, attempts to 
     violate, conspires to violate, or causes a violation of 
     subsection (b)(1) or any regulation, license, or order issued 
     to carry out that 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.
       (d) National Security Waiver.--The President may waive the 
     imposition of sanctions under subsection (a) with respect to 
     a foreign person if the President--
       (1) determines that such a waiver is in the national 
     security interests of the United States; and
       (2) submits to the appropriate congressional committees a 
     notification of the waiver and the reasons for the waiver.
       (e) Exceptions.--
       (1) Intelligence activities.--This section shall not apply 
     with respect to activities subject to the reporting 
     requirements under title V of the National Security Act of 
     1947 (50 U.S.C. 3091 et seq.) or any authorized intelligence 
     activities of the United States.
       (2) Law enforcement activities.--Sanctions under this 
     section shall not apply with respect to any authorized law 
     enforcement activities of the United States.
       (3) Exception to comply with international agreements.--
     Subsection (b)(2)

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     shall not apply with respect to the admission of an alien to 
     the United States if such admission is necessary to comply 
     with the obligations of the United States under 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, 
     under the Convention on Consular Relations, done at Vienna 
     April 24, 1963, and entered into force March 19, 1967, or 
     under other international agreements.
       (4) Exception relating to importation of goods.--
       (A) In general.--The authority or a requirement to impose 
     sanctions under this section shall not include the authority 
     or a requirement to impose sanctions on the importation of 
     goods.
       (B) Good defined.--In this paragraph, the term ``good'' 
     means any article, natural or manmade substance, material, 
     supply, or manufactured product, including inspection and 
     test equipment, and excluding technical data.
       (f) Report Required.--The Secretary of State shall submit 
     to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the 
     supply of rare earth minerals in Afghanistan during the 
     period after the Taliban gained control of Afghanistan.
       (g) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) 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).
       (2) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
     ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
       (A) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on 
     Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate; and
       (B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on 
     Financial Services of the House of Representatives.
       (3) Foreign person.--The term ``foreign person'' means any 
     individual or entity that is not a United States person.
       (4) United states person.--The term ``United States 
     person'' means--
       (A) a United States citizen or an alien lawfully admitted 
     to the United States for permanent residence; or
       (B) an entity organized under the laws of the United States 
     or any jurisdiction within the United States.
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