[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 143 (Monday, September 16, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S6058]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3278. Mr. MURPHY (for himself and Mr. Cornyn) 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. EXTENSION AND MODIFICATION OF GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT 
                   CENTER.

       (a) Funding Availability and Limitations.--Paragraph (2) of 
     subsection (f) of section 1287 of the National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114-328; 
     22 U.S.C. 2656 note) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(2) Funding availability and limitations.--
       ``(A) Certification.--The Secretary of State shall only 
     provide funds under paragraph (1) to an entity described in 
     that paragraph if the Secretary certifies to the appropriate 
     congressional committees that the entity receiving such 
     funds--
       ``(i) has been selected in accordance with relevant 
     existing regulations;
       ``(ii) has the capability and experience necessary to 
     fulfill the purposes described in that paragraph;
       ``(iii) is nonpartisan; and
       ``(iv) is compatible with United States national security 
     and foreign policy interests and objectives.
       ``(B) Partisan political activity.--The Secretary of State 
     shall not knowingly provide funds under this subsection to 
     any entity engaged in partisan political activity within the 
     United States, including by carrying out activities that--
       ``(i) are directed toward the success or failure of a 
     political party, a candidate for partisan political office, 
     or a partisan political group; or
       ``(ii) result in unlawful partisan censorship of speech 
     protected under the First Amendment to the Constitution of 
     the United States.''.
       (b) Extension.--Subsection (j) of such section is amended 
     by striking ``on the date that is 8 years after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act'' and inserting ``on September 30, 
     2031''.
       (c) Severability.--If any provision of this section, an 
     amendment made by this section, or the application of such 
     provision or amendment to any person or circumstance is held 
     to be unconstitutional, the remainder of this section and the 
     amendments made by this section, and the application of the 
     provision or amendment to any other person or circumstance, 
     shall not be affected.
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