[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5829]
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SA 6334. Mr. BROWN 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 E of title XII, add the following:
SEC. 1262. REPORT ON POLITICAL PRISONERS IN EGYPT.
(a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in
consultation with the Director of National Intelligence,
shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a
report on the status of political prisoners in Egypt.
(b) Matters to Be Included.--The report required by
subsection (a) shall include a detailed assessment of how
many individuals are detained, imprisoned, or the victim of
an enforced disappearance in Egypt, including individuals
who--
(1) are human rights defenders;
(2) are detained, imprisoned, or otherwise physically
restricted because of their political, religious, other
conscientiously-held beliefs, or their identity;
(3) are prisoners who are arbitrarily detained;
(4) are victims of enforced disappearance or are reasonably
suspected of being detained or imprisoned in a secret
location; or
(5) have been subject to torture or other gross violations
of human rights while detained or imprisoned.
(c) Form.--The report required by subsection (a) shall be
submitted in unclassified form, but portions of the report
may contain a classified annex, provided that the annex is
provided separately from the unclassified report.
(d) Withholding of Foreign Military Financing Funding.--Of
the unobligated balance of amounts appropriated or otherwise
made available for Foreign Military Financing assistance for
Egypt, $300,000,000 may not be provided to the Government of
Egypt until the report required under subsection (a) has been
submitted to the appropriate congressional committees.
(e) Appropriate Congressional Committees.--In this section,
the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
(1) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on
Foreign Relations of the Senate; and
(2) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on
Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.
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