[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 153 (Thursday, September 22, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4981-S4982]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
SA 5578. Mr. CORNYN (for himself, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Hagerty, and
Mrs. Fischer) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe)
and
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intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2023 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 appropriate place, insert the following:
SEC. ___. TREATMENT OF EXEMPTIONS UNDER FARA.
(a) Limitation on Exemptions.--Section 3 of the Foreign
Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended (22 U.S.C. 613),
is amended, in the matter preceding subsection (a), by
inserting ``, except that the exemptions under subsections
(d)(1) and (h) shall not apply to any agent of a foreign
principal that is listed as a foreign adversary (as defined
in section 8(c) of the Secure and Trusted Communications
Networks Act of 2019 (47 U.S.C. 1607(c))) in accordance with
that Act'' before the colon.
(b) National Telecommunications and Information
Administration Program Modification.--Section 8(a) of the
Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019 (47
U.S.C. 1607(a)) is amended by adding at the end the
following:
``(4) Information on foreign adversaries.--Notwithstanding
paragraph (3), the Secretary of Commerce shall periodically
submit to the Attorney General a list of, and any relevant
information relating to, each foreign adversary identified
for purposes of the program established under paragraph
(1).''.
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