[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 192 (Monday, December 12, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7101-S7104]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS
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By Mr. CORNYN (for himself and Ms. Sinema):
S. 5231. A bill to provide for a primary prevention research agenda
and workforce; to the Committee on Armed Services.
Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to print my bill
for introduction in the Congressional Record. The bill provides for a
primary prevention research agenda and workforce.
There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be
printed in the Record, as follows:
S. 5231
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting our
Servicemembers through Proven Methods Act of 2022''
SEC. 547. PRIMARY PREVENTION RESEARCH AGENDA AND WORKFORCE.
(a) Annual Primary Prevention Research Agenda.--Section
549A(c) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal
Year 2022 (Public Law 117-81; 135 Stat. 1722) is amended--
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) as
paragraphs (5), (6), and (7), respectively;
(2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following new
paragraphs:
``(2) include a focus on whether and to what extent sub-
populations of the military community may be targeted for
interpersonal violence more than others;
``(3) seek to identify factors that influence the
prevention, perpetration, and victimization of interpersonal
and self-directed violence;
``(4) seek to improve the collection and dissemination of
data on hazing and bullying related to interpersonal and
self-directed violence;''; and
(3) by amending paragraph (6), as redesignated by paragraph
(1) of this section, to read as follows:
``(6) incorporate collaboration with other Federal
departments and agencies, including the Department of Health
and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, State governments, academia,
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industry, federally funded research and development centers,
nonprofit organizations, and other organizations outside of
the Department of Defense, including civilian institutions
that conduct similar data-driven studies, collection, and
analysis; and''.
(b) Primary Prevention Workforce.--Section 549B of the
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022
(Public Law 117-81; 135 Stat. 1722) is amended--
(1) in subsection (c)--
(A) in paragraph (2), by striking ``subsection (a)'' and
inserting ``paragraph (1)''; and
(B) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
``(3) Comptroller general report.--Not later than one year
after the date of the enactment of this paragraph, the
Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the
congressional defense committees a report that--
``(A) compares the sexual harassment and prevention
training of the Department of Defense with similar programs
at other departments and agencies of the Federal Government;
and
``(B) includes relevant data collected by colleges and
universities and other relevant outside entities on hazing
and bullying and interpersonal and self-directed violence.'';
and
(2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
``(e) Incorporation of Research and Findings.--The
Secretary of Defense shall ensure that the findings and
conclusions from the primary prevention research agenda
established under section 549A are regularly incorporated, as
appropriate, within the primary prevention workforce
established under subsection (a).''.
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By Mr. CORNYN (for himself and Mr. King):
S. 5232. A bill to require the imposition of sanctions with respect
to the sale, supply, or transfer of gold to or from the Russian
Federation; to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to print my bill
for introduction in the Congressional Record. The bill requires the
imposition of sanctions with respect to the sale, supply, or transfer
of gold to or from the Russian Federation.
There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be
printed in the Record, as follows:
S. 5232
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Stop Russian Government and
Oligarchs from Limiting Democracy Act of 2022'' or the ``Stop
Russian GOLD Act of 2022''.
SEC. 2. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE SALE,
SUPPLY, OR TRANSFER OF GOLD TO OR FROM RUSSIA.
(a) Identification.--Not later than 90 days after the date
of the enactment of this Act, and periodically as necessary
thereafter, the President--
(1) shall submit to Congress a report identifying foreign
persons that knowingly participated in a significant
transaction--
(A) for the sale, supply, or transfer (including
transportation) of gold, directly or indirectly, to or from
the Russian Federation or the Government of the Russian
Federation, including from reserves of the Central Bank of
the Russian Federation held outside the Russian Federation;
or
(B) that otherwise involved gold in which the Government of
the Russian Federation had any interest; and
(2) shall impose the sanctions described in subsection
(b)(1) with respect to each such person; and
(3) may impose the sanctions described in subsection (b)(2)
with respect to any such person that is an alien.
(b) Sanctions Described.--The sanctions described in this
subsection are the following:
(1) Blocking of property.--The exercise of all powers
granted to the President by the International Emergency
Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) to the extent
necessary to block and prohibit all transactions in all
property and interests in property of a foreign person
identified in the report required by subsection (a)(1) if
such property and interests in property are in the United
States, come within the United States, or are or come within
the possession or control of a United States person.
(2) Ineligibility for visas, admission, or parole.--
(A) Visas, admission, or parole.--An alien described in
subsection (a)(1) is--
(i) inadmissible to the United States;
(ii) ineligible to receive a visa or other documentation to
enter the United States; and
(iii) otherwise ineligible to be admitted or paroled into
the United States or to receive any other benefit under the
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.).
(B) Current visas revoked.--
(i) In general.--The issuing consular officer, the
Secretary of State, or the Secretary of Homeland Security (or
a designee of one of such Secretaries) shall, in accordance
with section 221(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8
U.S.C. 1201(i)), revoke any visa or other entry documentation
issued to an alien described in subsection (a)(1).
(ii) Immediate effect.--The revocation under clause (i) of
a visa or other entry documentation issued to an alien
shall--
(I) take effect immediately; and
(II) automatically cancel any other valid visa or entry
documentation that is in the alien's possession.
(c) Implementation; Penalties.--
(1) Implementation.--The President may exercise all
authorities provided under sections 203 and 205 of the
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702
and 1704) to carry out this section.
(2) Penalties.--A person that violates, attempts to
violate, conspires to violate, or causes a violation of this
section or any regulation, license, or order issued to carry
out this section shall be subject to the penalties set forth
in subsections (b) and (c) of section 206 of the
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705)
to the same extent as a person that commits an unlawful act
described in subsection (a) of that section.
(d) National Interest Waiver.--The President may waive the
imposition of sanctions under this section with respect to a
person if the President--
(1) determines that such a waiver is in the national
interests of the United States; and
(2) submits to Congress a notification of the waiver and
the reasons for the waiver.
(e) Termination.--
(1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), the
requirement to impose sanctions under this section, and any
sanctions imposed under this section, shall terminate on the
earlier of--
(A) the date that is 3 years after the date of the
enactment of this Act; or
(B) the date that is 30 days after the date on which the
President certifies to Congress that--
(i) the Government of the Russian Federation has ceased its
destabilizing activities with respect to the sovereignty and
territorial integrity of Ukraine; and
(ii) such termination in the national interests of the
United States.
(2) Transition rules.--
(A) Continuation of certain authorities.--Any authorities
exercised before the termination date under paragraph (1) to
impose sanctions with respect to a foreign person under this
section may continue to be exercised on and after that date
if the President determines that the continuation of those
authorities is in the national interests of the United
States.
(B) Application to ongoing investigations.--The termination
date under paragraph (1) shall not apply to any investigation
of a civil or criminal violation of this section or any
regulation, license, or order issued to carry out this
section, or the imposition of a civil or criminal penalty for
such a violation, if--
(i) the violation occurred before the termination date; or
(ii) the person involved in the violation continues to be
subject to sanctions pursuant to subparagraph (A).
(f) Exceptions.--
(1) Exceptions for authorized intelligence and law
enforcement and national security activities.--This section
shall not apply with respect to activities subject to the
reporting requirements under title V of the National Security
Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3091 et seq.) or any authorized
intelligence, law enforcement, or national security
activities of the United States.
(2) Exception to comply with international agreements.--
Sanctions under subsection (b)(2) may not apply with respect
to the admission of an alien to the United States if such
admission is necessary to comply with the obligations of the
United States under the Agreement regarding the Headquarters
of the United Nations, signed at Lake Success June 26, 1947,
and entered into force November 21, 1947, between the United
Nations and the United States, or the Convention on Consular
Relations, done at Vienna April 24, 1963, and entered into
force March 19, 1967, or other international obligations.
(3) Humanitarian exemption.--The President shall not impose
sanctions under this section with respect to any person for
conducting or facilitating a transaction for the sale of
agricultural commodities, food, medicine, or medical devices
or for the provision of humanitarian assistance.
(4) Exception relating to importation of goods.--
(A) In general.--The requirement or authority to impose
sanctions under this section shall not include the authority
or a requirement to impose sanctions on the importation of
goods.
(B) Good defined.--In this paragraph, the term ``good''
means any article, natural or manmade substance, material,
supply, or manufactured product, including inspection and
test equipment, and excluding technical data.
(g) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) The terms ``admission'', ``admitted'', ``alien'', and
``lawfully admitted for permanent residence'' have the
meanings given those terms in section 101 of the Immigration
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101).
(2) The term ``foreign person'' means an individual or
entity that is not a United States person.
(3) The term ``knowingly'', with respect to conduct, a
circumstance, or a result, means
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that a person has actual knowledge, or should have known, of
the conduct, the circumstance, or the result.
(4) The term ``United States person'' means--
(A) a United States citizen or an alien lawfully admitted
for permanent residence to the United States;
(B) an entity organized under the laws of the United States
or any jurisdiction within the United States, including a
foreign branch of such an entity; or
(C) any person in the United States.
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By Mr. CORNYN (for himself and Mrs. Gillibrand):
S. 5233. A bill to require the President to submit to Congress a
report on United States Government efforts to collect, analyze, and
preserve evidence and information related to war crimes and other
atrocities committed during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine
since February 24, 2022, and for other purposes; to the Committee on
Foreign Relations.
Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to print my bill
for introduction in the Congressional Record. The bill requires the
President to submit to Congress a report on U.S. Government efforts to
collect, analyze, and preserve evidence and information related to war
crimes and other atrocities committed during the full-scale Russian
invasion of Ukraine.
There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be
printed in the Record, as follows:
S. 5233
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. UKRAINE INVASION WAR CRIMES DETERRENCE AND
ACCOUNTABILITY ACT.
(a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the
``Ukraine Invasion War Crimes Deterrence and Accountability
Act''.
(b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
(1) in its premeditated, unprovoked, unjustified, and
unlawful full-scale invasion of Ukraine that commenced on
February 24, 2022, the military of the Government of the
Russian Federation under the direction of President Vladimir
Putin has committed war crimes that include but are not
limited to--
(A) the deliberate targeting of civilians and injuring or
killing of noncombatants;
(B) the deliberate targeting and attacking of hospitals,
schools, and other non-military buildings dedicated to
religion, art, science, or charitable purposes, such as the
bombing of a theater in Mariupol that served as a shelter for
noncombatants and had the word ``children'' written clearly
in the Russian language outside;
(C) the indiscriminate bombardment of undefended dwellings
and buildings;
(D) the wanton destruction of property not justified by
military necessity;
(E) unlawful civilian deportations;
(F) the taking of hostages; and
(G) rape, or sexual assault or abuse;
(2) the use of chemical weapons by the Government of the
Russian Federation in Ukraine would constitute a war crime,
and engaging in any military preparations to use chemical
weapons or to develop, produce, stockpile, or retain chemical
weapons is prohibited by the Chemical Weapons Convention, to
which the Russian Federation is a signatory;
(3) Vladimir Putin has a long record of committing acts of
aggression, systematic abuses of human rights, and acts that
constitute war crimes or other atrocities both at home and
abroad, and the brutality and scale of these actions,
including in the Russian Federation republic of Chechnya,
Georgia, Syria, and Ukraine, demonstrate the extent to which
his regime is willing to flout international norms and values
in the pursuit of its objectives;
(4) Vladimir Putin has previously sanctioned the use of
chemical weapons at home and abroad, including in the
poisonings of Russian spy turned double agent Sergei Skripal
and his daughter Yulia and leading Russian opposition figure
Aleksey Navalny, and aided and abetted the use of chemical
weapons by President Bashar al-Assad in Syria; and
(5) in 2014, the Government of the Russian Federation
initiated its unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine
which resulted in its illegal occupation of Crimea, the
unrecognized declaration of independence by the so-called
``Donetsk People's Republic'' and ``Luhansk People's
Republic'' by Russia-backed proxies, and numerous human
rights violations and deaths of civilians in Ukraine.
(c) Statement of Policy.--It is the policy of the United
States--
(1) to collect, analyze, and preserve evidence and
information related to war crimes and other atrocities
committed during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine
that began on February 24, 2022, for use in appropriate
domestic, foreign, and international courts and tribunals
prosecuting those responsible for such crimes consistent with
applicable law, including with the American Service Members'
Protection Act of 2002 (22 U.S.C. 7421 et seq.);
(2) to help deter the commission of war crimes and other
atrocities in Ukraine by publicizing to the maximum possible
extent, including among Russian and other foreign military
commanders and troops in Ukraine, efforts to identify and
prosecute those responsible for the commission of war crimes
during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine that began
on February 24, 2022; and
(3) to continue efforts to identify, deter, and pursue
accountability for war crimes and other atrocities committed
around the world and by other perpetrators, and to leverage
international cooperation and best practices in this regard
with respect to the current situation in Ukraine.
(d) Report on United States Efforts.--Not later than 90
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and
consistent with the protection of intelligence sources and
methods, the President shall submit to the appropriate
congressional committees a report, which may include a
classified annex, describing in detail the following:
(1) United States Government efforts to collect, analyze,
and preserve evidence and information related to war crimes
and other atrocities committed during the full-scale Russian
invasion of Ukraine since February 24, 2022, including a
description of--
(A) the respective roles of various agencies, departments,
and offices, and the interagency mechanism established for
the coordination of such efforts;
(B) the types of information and evidence that are being
collected, analyzed, and preserved to help identify those
responsible for the commission of war crimes or other
atrocities during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine
in 2022; and
(C) steps taken to coordinate with, and support the work
of, allies, partners, international institutions and
organizations, and nongovernmental organizations in such
efforts.
(2) Media, public diplomacy, and information operations to
make Russian military commanders, troops, political leaders
and the Russian people aware of efforts to identify and
prosecute those responsible for the commission of war crimes
or other atrocities during the full-scale Russian invasion of
Ukraine in 2022, and of the types of acts that may be
prosecutable.
(3) The process for a domestic, foreign, or international
court or tribunal to request and obtain from the United
States Government information related to war crimes or other
atrocities committed during the full-scale Russian invasion
of Ukraine in 2022.
(e) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term
``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
(A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on the
Judiciary, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of
Representatives; and
(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on
the Judiciary, the Committee on Armed Services, and the
Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate.
(2) Atrocities.--The term ``atrocities'' has the meaning
given that term in section 6(2) of the Elie Wiesel Genocide
and Atrocities Prevention Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-441; 22
U.S.C. 2656 note).
(3) War crime.--The term ``war crime'' has the meaning
given that term in section 2441(c) of title 18, United States
Code.
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By Mr. CORNYN (for himself and Mr. Cardin):
S. 5234. A bill to modify statutory definitions relating to narcotics
and drug trafficking, and for other purposes; to the Committee on
Foreign Relations.
Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to print my bill
for introduction in the Congressional Record. The bill modifies
statutory definitions relating to narcotics and drug trafficking.
There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be
printed in the Record, as follows:
S. 5234
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting America from
Narcotics and Illicit Chemicals Act of 2022'' or the ``PANIC
Act of 2022''.
SEC. 2. DEFINITION OF MAJOR ILLICIT DRUG PRODUCING COUNTRY.
Section 481(e) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22
U.S.C. 2291(e)) is amended--
(1) in paragraph (2)--
(A) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``; or'' and inserting
a semicolon;
(B) in subparagraph (D), by striking the semicolon at the
end and inserting ``; or''; and
(C) by adding at the end the following:
``(E) that is a significant direct source of covered
synthetic drugs or psychotropic drugs or other controlled
substances, including precursor chemicals when those
chemicals are used in the production of such drugs and
substances, significantly affecting the United States;'';
(2) by amending paragraph (5) to read as follows:
``(5) the term `major drug-transit country' means a country
through which are transported covered synthetic drugs or
psychotropic drugs or other controlled substances
significantly affecting the United States;'';
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(3) in paragraph (7), by striking ``; and'' and inserting a
semicolon;
(4) in paragraph (8), by striking the period at the end and
inserting ``; and''; and
(5) by adding at the end the following:
``(9) the term `covered synthetic drug' has the meaning
given that term in section 5558 of the FENTANYL Results
Act.''.
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