[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4860-S4861]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2530. Mr. MERKLEY (for himself and Mr. Rubio) 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:


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       At the end of subtitle A of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1216. TRAINING FOR UNITED STATES OFFICIALS RESPONSIBLE 
                   FOR DOMESTIC THREATS OF TRANSNATIONAL 
                   REPRESSION.

       (a) In General.--In order to achieve an adequate level of 
     understanding to recognize and combat transnational 
     repression, the Attorney General, in consultation with the 
     Secretary of Homeland Security, the Director of National 
     Intelligence, civil society, and the business community, 
     shall provide the training recipients referred to in 
     subsection (b) with training regarding transnational 
     repression, including training on--
       (1) how to identify different tactics of transnational 
     repression in physical and nonphysical forms;
       (2) which governments are known to employ transnational 
     repression most frequently;
       (3) which communities and locations in the United States 
     are most vulnerable to transnational repression;
       (4) tools of digital surveillance and other cyber tools 
     used to carry out transnational repression activities;
       (5) espionage and foreign agent laws; and
       (6) how foreign governments may try to coopt the 
     immigration system.
       (b) Training Recipients.--The training recipients referred 
     to in this subsection include, to the extent deemed 
     appropriate and necessary by their respective agency heads in 
     the case of any Federal employee--
       (1) employees of--
       (A) the Department of Homeland Security, including U.S. 
     Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Citizenship and 
     Immigration Services, and U.S. Immigration and Customs 
     Enforcement;
       (B) the Department of Justice, including the Federal Bureau 
     of Investigation; and
       (C) the Office of Refugee Resettlement of the Department of 
     Health and Human Services;
       (2) other Federal, State, and local law enforcement and 
     municipal officials receiving instruction at the Federal Law 
     Enforcement Training Center; and
       (3) appropriate private sector and community partners of 
     the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
       (c) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized 
     to be appropriated $1,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 
     2025 through 2028, to develop and provide the curriculum and 
     training described in subsection (a).
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