[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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