[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 120 (Thursday, July 13, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S2858]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 746. 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 end of subtitle G of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1083. REPORTING ON TRANSNATIONAL REPRESSION IN ANNUAL 
                   COUNTRY REPORTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICES.

       Section 116(d) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 
     U.S.C. 2151n(d)) is amended by adding at the end the 
     following:
       ``(13) Wherever applicable, a description of the nature and 
     extent of acts of transnational repression that occurred 
     during the preceding year, including identification of--
       ``(A) incidents in which a government harassed, 
     intimidated, or killed individuals outside of their 
     internationally recognized borders and the patterns of such 
     repression among repeat offenders;
       ``(B) countries in which such transnational repression 
     occurs and the roles of the governments of such countries in 
     enabling, preventing, mitigating, and responding to such 
     acts;
       ``(C) the tactics used by the governments of countries 
     identified pursuant to subparagraph (A), including the 
     actions identified and any new techniques observed;
       ``(D) in the case of digital surveillance and harassment, 
     the type of technology or platform, including social media, 
     smart city technology, health tracking systems, general 
     surveillance technology, and data access, transfer, and 
     storage procedures, used by the governments of countries 
     identified pursuant to subparagraph (A) for such actions; and
       ``(E) groups and types of individuals targeted by acts of 
     transnational repression in each country in which such acts 
     occur.''.
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