[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 120 (Thursday, July 13, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S2848]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 714. Mr. MARSHALL 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, insert the following:

     SEC. __. STOP FUNDING OUR ADVERSARIES.

       (a) Purposes.--The purposes of this section are--
       (1) to ensure that Federal funding does not support any 
     research in China; and
       (2) to combat the military-civilian fusion policy of the 
     People's Republic of China.
       (b) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Chinese communist party.--The term ``Chinese Communist 
     Party'' includes any agent or instrumentality of the Chinese 
     Communist Party and any entity owned by or controlled by the 
     Chinese Communist Party.
       (2) Federal agency.--
       (A) In general.--The term ``Federal agency'' has the 
     meaning given the term in section 102 of the Robert T. 
     Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 
     U.S.C. 5122) .
       (B) Inclusions.--The term ``Federal agency'' includes the 
     Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs, 
     the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection 
     Agency, the Department of the Interior, the Department of 
     Transportation, the Department of Health and Human Services, 
     the Department of Agriculture, the United States Agency for 
     International Development, the National Science Foundation, 
     and the Smithsonian Institution.
       (3) Federal funding.--The term ``Federal funding''--
       (A) means any grant, subgrant, contract, cooperative 
     agreement, and any other method through which the Federal 
     Government provides funding to a recipient; and
       (B) includes a method through which the Federal Government 
     provides funding to a subrecipient at any tier.
       (4) Government of the people's republic of china.--The term 
     ``Government of the People's Republic of China'' includes--
       (A) any agent or instrumentality of the Government of the 
     People's Republic of China;
       (B) any entity owned by or controlled by the People's 
     Republic of China; and
       (C) any organization managed by the Government of the 
     People's Republic of China, the People's Liberation Army 
     Ground Force of China, and any public institution of higher 
     learning in China.
       (c) Prohibition on Funding Research in China.--The head of 
     a Federal agency may not directly or indirectly support, 
     through any Federal funding, research that will be conducted 
     by the Government of the People's Republic of China or the 
     Chinese Communist Party.
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