[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4736-S4737]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2398. Mr. SCHMITT submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2025 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 title XII, insert the 
     following:

     SEC. __. PROHIBITION APPLICABLE TO GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT CENTER 
                   OF DEPARTMENT OF STATE REGARDING NEWS 
                   DISINFORMATION AND MISINFORMATION.

       Section 1287 of the National Defense Authorization Act for 
     Fiscal Year 2017 (22 U.S.C. 2656 note) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (h), by striking ``subsection (j)'' and 
     inserting ``subsection (k)'';
       (2) by redesignating subsection (j) as subsection (k); and
       (3) by inserting after subsection (i) the following:
       ``(j) Prohibition Regarding News Disinformation and 
     Misinformation.--None of the funds authorized to be 
     appropriated or otherwise made available to carry out this

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     section shall be used to create, or provide funding to a 
     foreign government, quasi-governmental organization, or 
     nonprofit organization for the research, development, or 
     maintenance of, any list or ranking system relating to 
     disinformation or misinformation of United States-based news 
     content, regardless of medium.''.
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