[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 120 (Wednesday, July 24, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S5431]
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  SA 3111. Mr. CARDIN 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 F of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1291. STRENGTHENING PUBLIC REPORTING ON CORRUPTION.

       (a) Sense of Congress.-- It is the sense of the Congress 
     that--
       (1) the PRC and its representatives are engaged in 
     corruption across the globe, targeting public sector 
     officials with the goal of inducing them to make official 
     decisions that suit the interests of the PRC in exchange for 
     personal financial gain;
       (2) people across the globe do not want leaders who make 
     deals to enrich themselves and their families in exchange for 
     their country's natural resources or agreeing to take on 
     onerous national debts and loans, which the nation will be 
     forced to pay back; and
       (3) uncovering and bringing to light evidence of this sort 
     of corruption serves the objective of empowering people 
     everywhere to bring such practices to end.
       (b) Authorization of Funding for Public Reporting on 
     Corruption and Corrupt Practices.--
       (1) In general.--The Secretary of State shall support and 
     strengthen media and civil society initiatives to uncover and 
     report on evidence of corruption, with a goal of bringing to 
     light the corrupt practices of the PRC and its 
     representatives in every region, and the local leaders who 
     are accepting these payments.
       (2) Authorization of appropriations.--There is authorized 
     to be appropriated an additional $3,000,000 for each of 
     fiscal years 2025 through 2029 for the Secretary of State to 
     carry out this section.
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