[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 61 (Wednesday, April 6, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H4382]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   PROHIBITING NEW INVESTMENT IN AND CERTAIN SERVICES TO THE RUSSIAN 
  FEDERATION IN RESPONSE TO CONTINUED RUSSIAN FEDERATION AGGRESSION--
 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (H. DOC. NO. 117-106)

  The SPEAKER pro tempore laid before the House the following message 
from the President of the United States; which was read and, together 
with the accompanying papers, referred to the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs and ordered to be printed:

To the Congress of the United States:
  Pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 
U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et 
seq.), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I hereby report 
that I have issued an Executive Order in order to take additional steps 
with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 
14024 of April 15, 2021, with respect to the unusual and extraordinary 
threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the 
United States posed by specified harmful foreign activities of the 
Government of the Russian Federation.
  The order prohibits the following: (i) new investment in the Russian 
Federation by a United States person, wherever located; (ii) the 
exportation, reexportation, sale, or supply, directly or indirectly, 
from the United States, or by a United States person, wherever located, 
of any category of services as may be determined by the Secretary of 
the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, to any 
person located in the Russian Federation; and (iii) any approval, 
financing, facilitation, or guarantee by a United States person, 
wherever located, of a transaction by a foreign person where the 
transaction by that foreign person would be prohibited by this section 
if performed by a United States person or within the United States.
  I am enclosing a copy of the Executive Order I have issued.
                                                 Joseph R. Biden, Jr.  
The White House, April 6, 2022.

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