[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 120 (Thursday, July 13, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S2604]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 443. Mr. CRUZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2024 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 subtitle D of title XXXI, 
     insert the following:

     SEC. 31___. PROHIBITION ON SALES OF PETROLEUM PRODUCTS FROM 
                   THE STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE TO CHINA.

       Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary 
     of Energy shall not draw down and sell petroleum products 
     from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve--
       (1) to any entity that is under the ownership or control of 
     the Chinese Communist Party or the People's Republic of 
     China; or
       (2) except on the condition that such petroleum products 
     will not be exported to the People's Republic of China.
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