[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 200 (Wednesday, November 17, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S8360]
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  SA 4746. Mr. MARSHALL 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 X, add the following:

     SEC. 1013. INTERAGENCY STRATEGY TO DISRUPT AND DISMANTLE 
                   NARCOTICS PRODUCTION AND TRAFFICKING AND 
                   AFFILIATED NETWORKS LINKED TO THE REGIME OF 
                   BASHAR AL-ASSAD IN SYRIA.

       (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
       (1) the captagon trade linked to the regime of Bashar al-
     Assad in Syria is a transnational security threat; and
       (2) the United States should develop and implement an 
     interagency strategy to deny, degrade, and dismantle Assad-
     linked narcotics production and trafficking networks.
       (b) Report and Strategy Required.--Not later than 180 days 
     after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
     Defense, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the 
     Treasury, the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement 
     Administration, the Director of National Intelligence, and 
     the heads of other appropriate Federal agencies shall jointly 
     submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report 
     containing a strategy to disrupt and dismantle narcotics 
     production and trafficking and affiliated networks linked to 
     the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria. The strategy shall 
     include each of the following:
       (1) A strategy to target, disrupt and degrade networks that 
     directly and indirectly support the narcotics infrastructure 
     of the Assad regime, particularly through diplomatic and 
     intelligence support to law enforcement investigations and to 
     build counter-narcotics capacity to partner countries through 
     assistance and training to law enforcement services in 
     countries, other than Syria, that are receiving or transiting 
     large quantities of Captagon.
       (2) A description of the countries receiving or transiting 
     large shipments of Captagon and an assessment of the counter-
     narcotics capacity of those countries to interdict or disrupt 
     the smuggling of Captagon, including an assessment of current 
     United States assistance and training programs to build such 
     capacity in those countries.
       (3) The use of sanctions authorities, including the Caesar 
     Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2019 (22 U.S.C. 8791 note), 
     and associated actions to target individuals and entities 
     directly or indirectly associated with the narcotics 
     infrastructure of the Assad regime.
       (4) The use of global diplomatic engagements associated 
     with the economic pressure campaign against the Assad regime 
     to target its narcotics infrastructure.
       (5) Leveraging multilateral institutions and cooperation 
     with international partners to disrupt the narcotics 
     infrastructure of the Assad regime.
       (6) Mobilizing a public communications campaign to increase 
     awareness of the extent of the connection of the Assad regime 
     to illicit narcotics trade.
       (c) Form of Report.--The report required under subsection 
     (b) shall be submitted in an unclassified form, but may 
     contain a classified annex.
       (d) Appropriate Congressional Committees.--In this section, 
     the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
       (1) the congressional defense committees;
       (2) the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee on 
     Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on Financial Services [of 
     the House of Representatives]; and
       (3) the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee on 
     Foreign Relations, and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
     Urban Affairs of the Senate.
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