[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 18 (Tuesday, January 28, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S436]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

       SA 96. Mr. CRUZ submitted an amendment intended to be 
     proposed by him to the bill H.R. 23, to impose sanctions with 
     respect to the International Criminal Court engaged in any 
     effort to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute any 
     protected person of the United States and its allies; which 
     was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       Beginning on page 4, strike line 21 and all that follows 
     through page 5, line 5, and insert the following:
       (3) the sanctions described in subsection (b)(1) with 
     respect to the International Criminal Court; and
       (4) a prohibition on the opening or the maintaining in the 
     United States of a correspondent or payable-through account 
     by any foreign financial institution determined by the 
     President to have knowingly conducted or facilitated a 
     significant transaction or transactions on behalf of the 
     International Criminal Court or any person whose property is 
     blocked under subsection (b)(1).
       (b) Sanctions Described.--The sanctions described in this 
     subsection with respect to a foreign person described in 
     subsection (a) are the following:
       (1) Property blocking.--The President shall exercise all of 
     the powers granted by the International Emergency Economic 
     Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) to the extent necessary 
     to block and prohibit all transactions in all property and 
     interests in property of any foreign person described in 
     paragraph (1) or (3) of subsection (a) if such property and 
     interests in
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