[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 156 (Tuesday, September 27, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5067]
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SA 5668. Mr. KENNEDY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe)
and 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 end of subtitle D of title XII, add the following:
SEC. 1254. REPORT ON USE OF SPECIAL DRAWING RIGHTS BY
COUNTRIES PARTICIPATING IN THE BELT AND ROAD
INITIATIVE OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.
(a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury
shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a
report on how Special Drawing Rights of the International
Monetary Fund are being used by countries participating in
the Belt and Road Initiative of the People's Republic of
China, including an assessment of whether those countries are
using Special Drawing Rights to pay off debt to the People's
Republic of China.
(b) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.--In this
section, the term ``appropriate congressional committees''
means--
(1) the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs,
the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, the
Committee on Finance, the Committee on Foreign Relations, and
the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate; and
(2) the Committee on Energy and Commerce, the Committee on
Financial Services, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the
Committee on Ways and Means, and the Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives.
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