[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 157 (Wednesday, September 28, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5397]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 5932. Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina (for himself and Ms. Rosen) 
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 F of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1276. COI ELIMINATION ACT.

       (a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the ``COI 
     Elimination Act''.
       (b) Abolition and Restriction.--
       (1) Statement of policy.--It is the policy of the United 
     States--
       (A) to seek the abolition of the United Nations Independent 
     International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied 
     Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in 
     Israel; and
       (B) to combat systemic anti-Israel bias at the United 
     Nations Human Rights Council and other international fora.
       (2) Abolition of certain united nations groups.--Section 
     721(b) of the Admiral James W. Nance and Meg Donovan Foreign 
     Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2000 and 2001, 
     enacted by reference pursuant to section 1000(a)(7) of the 
     Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, 
     and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public Law 
     106-113) (22 U.S.C. 287 note) is amended by striking ``; and 
     the Division on Public Information on the Question of 
     Palestine'' and inserting ``; the Division on Public 
     Information on the Question of Palestine; and the United 
     Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on 
     the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, 
     and in Israel''.
       (3) Withholding of funds.--Section 114 of the Department of 
     State Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1984 and 1985 (Public 
     Law 98-164; 22 U.S.C. 287e note) is amended--
       (A) in subsection (a)
       (i) in paragraph (6), by striking ``and'' after the 
     semicolon;
       (ii) in paragraph (7), by striking the period and inserting 
     ``; and''; and
       (iii) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(8) 22 percent of the amount budgeted for the United 
     Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on 
     the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, 
     and in Israel, unless the Secretary of State submits to 
     Congress a certification that the United Nations Independent 
     International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied 
     Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in 
     Israel has been abolished.''; and
       (B) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(e) If the Secretary of State submits to Congress a 
     certification under paragraph (8) of subsection (a), the 
     United States shall, subject to available appropriations, 
     provide to the United Nations an amount equal to the total 
     amount of funds withheld in accordance with such paragraph 
     during the current and any prior year.''.
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