[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 24 (Friday, February 9, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S802]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1595. Mr. LEE (for Mr. Scott of Florida) submitted an amendment 
intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1388 proposed by Mrs. Murray 
(for herself and Mr. Schumer) to the bill H.R. 815, to amend title 38, 
United States Code, to make certain improvements relating to the 
eligibility of veterans to receive reimbursement for emergency 
treatment furnished through the Veterans Community Care program, and 
for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       On page 56, after line 13, add the following:
       Sec. 617. (a) This section may be cited as the ``Stop 
     Taxpayer Funding of Hamas Act''.
       (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the 
     funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act, 
     or by any prior Act making appropriations for the Department 
     of State, foreign operations, and related programs, may be 
     made available for any expenditure in the territory of Gaza 
     until after the President certifies to the Committee on 
     Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign 
     Affairs of the House of Representatives that--
       (1) such funds can be expended without benefitting any 
     organization or persons that is--
       (A) a member of Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or any 
     other organization designated by the Secretary of State as a 
     foreign terrorist organization under section 219 of the 
     Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189); or
       (B) controlled or influenced by Hamas, Palestinian Islamic 
     Jihad, or any such foreign terrorist organization; and
       (2) all hostages who were taken to Gaza by any organization 
     referred to in paragraph (1)(A) have been freed.
       (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the 
     funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act, 
     or by any prior Act making appropriations for the Department 
     of State, foreign operations, and related programs, may be 
     obligated or expended in the territory of Gaza through any 
     United Nations entity or office unless the President 
     certifies to the congressional committees referred to in 
     subsection (b) that such entity or office is not encouraging 
     or teaching anti-Israel or anti-Semitic ideas or propaganda.

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