[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5893]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 6356. Mr. WHITEHOUSE (for himself and Mr. Cornyn) 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 appropriate place in title X, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. COORDINATOR FOR COMBATING FOREIGN KLEPTOCRACY AND 
                   CORRUPTION.

       Section 101 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 
     3021) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (b)--
       (A) in paragraph (3), by striking ``; and'' and inserting a 
     semicolon;
       (B) in paragraph (4), by striking the period at the end and 
     inserting ``; and''; and
       (C) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(5) coordinate, without assuming operational authority, 
     the United States Government efforts to identify and seize 
     assets that are the proceeds of corruption pertaining to 
     China, Iran, North Korea, or Russia and identifying the 
     national security implications of strategic corruption in 
     such countries.''.
       (2) by redesignating subsection (h) as subsection (i); and
       (3) by inserting after subsection (g) the following:
       ``(h) Coordinator for Combating Foreign Kleptocracy and 
     Corruption.--
       ``(1) In general.--The President shall designate an 
     employee of the National Security Council to be responsible 
     for the coordination of the interagency process for 
     identifying and seizing assets that are that are the proceeds 
     of corruption pertaining to China, Iran, North Korea, or 
     Russia and identifying the national security implications of 
     strategic corruption in such countries.
       ``(2) Reporting.--The employee designated under paragraph 
     (1) shall report to the Council's Senior Director for Europe.
       ``(3) Coordination with coordinator for combating malign 
     foreign influence operations and campaigns.--The employee 
     designated under paragraph (1) of this subsection shall 
     coordinate with the employee designated under subsection 
     (g)(1).
       ``(4) Liaison.--The employee designated under paragraph (1) 
     shall serve as a liaison, for purposes of coordination 
     described in such paragraph, with the following:
       ``(A) The Department of the Treasury.
       ``(B) The Department of Justice.
       ``(C) The Department of Defense.
       ``(D) The intelligence community.
       ``(E) The Department of State.
       ``(F) Good government transparency groups in civil 
     society.''.
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