[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 120 (Thursday, July 13, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S2855]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 737. Mr. MERKLEY 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 G of title X, insert 
     the following:

     SEC. 10____. PROHIBITION ON EXPORTS OF LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS 
                   TO CHINA.

       Effective on the date of enactment of this Act, no person 
     or entity shall--
       (1) export liquefied natural gas to the People's Republic 
     of China from a facility that is not operational as of the 
     date of enactment of this Act; or
       (2) increase the annual total volume of exported liquefied 
     natural gas to the People's Republic of China from a facility 
     that is in operation as of the date of enactment of this Act 
     above the annual total volume that facility exported in 
     calendar year 2022.
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