[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 157 (Wednesday, September 28, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5387]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 5907. Mr. BOOKER (for himself and Mr. Wicker) 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 C of title XII, add the following:

     SECTION 1239. MODIFICATION TO ANNUAL REPORT ON MILITARY AND 
                   SECURITY DEVELOPMENTS INVOLVING THE RUSSIAN 
                   FEDERATION.

       Section 1234(b) of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National 
     Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (Public Law 
     116-283; 134 Stat. 3936) is amended--
       (1) by redesignating paragraph (24) as paragraph (25); and
       (2) by inserting after paragraph (23) the following:
       ``(24) A detailed description of--
       ``(A) the manner in which Russian private military 
     companies are being used to advance the political, economic, 
     and military interests of the Government of the Russian 
     Federation;
       ``(B) the direct or indirect threats such companies pose to 
     United States security interests;
       ``(C) the manner in which sanctions currently in place to 
     impede or deter such companies from continuing to carry out 
     malign activities have impacted the behavior of such 
     companies;
       ``(D) all foreign persons engaged significantly with such 
     companies; and
       ``(E) human rights abuses committed by such companies, 
     including an assessment as to whether such abuses are carried 
     out in support of local actors.''.
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