[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 123 (Thursday, July 17, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S4482]
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  SA 2943. Mr. MERKLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill S. 2296, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2026 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 E of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1265. STATEMENT OF POLICY WITH RESPECT TO DEFINITION OF 
                   TRANSNATIONAL REPRESSION.

       It is policy of the United States that the term 
     ``transnational repression'' refers to a range of tactics 
     deployed by a foreign government, or agents or proxies of a 
     foreign government, to reach beyond their borders to 
     intimidate, silence, harass, coerce, or harm individuals, 
     such as political dissidents, activists, journalists, 
     political opponents, religious and ethnic minority groups, 
     international students, and members of diaspora and exile 
     communities.
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