[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S4970]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2657. Mr. RISCH 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 end of subtitle A of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1216. PERMANENT ENACTMENT OF CERTAIN GENERAL 
                   APPROPRIATIONS PROVISIONS.

       (a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the 
     ``American Values Act''.
       (b) Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.--Section 104(f) of the 
     Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151b(f)) is 
     amended to read as follows:
       ``(f) Prohibition on Use of Funds for Abortions and 
     Involuntary Sterilizations.--None of the funds authorized to 
     be appropriated or otherwise made available to carry out this 
     Act may be made available--
       ``(1) to pay for the performance of abortions as a method 
     of family planning or to motivate or coerce any person to 
     practice abortions;
       ``(2) to pay for the performance of involuntary 
     sterilization as a method of family planning or to coerce or 
     provide any financial incentive to any person to undergo 
     sterilizations;
       ``(3) to pay for biomedical research which relates in whole 
     or in part, to methods of, or the performance of, abortions 
     or involuntary sterilization as a means of family planning;
       ``(4) to lobby for or against abortion; or
       ``(5) to any organization or program which, as determined 
     by the President, supports or participates in the management 
     of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary 
     sterilization.''.
       (c) Peace Corps Act.--Section 301(b) of the Peace Corps Act 
     (22 U.S.C. 2501a(b)) is amended by adding at the end the 
     following:
       ``(3) Subject to section 614 of the Financial Services and 
     General Government Appropriations Act, 2014 (division E of 
     Public Law 113-76; 128 Stat. 227), none of the funds 
     authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available to 
     carry out this Act may be used to pay for abortions.''.
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