[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 132 (Thursday, July 31, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S5109]
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  SA 3353. 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 F of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1067. DENIAL OF ENTRY INTO THE UNITED STATES OF CURRENT 
                   OR FORMER OFFICIALS ENGAGED IN THE FORCED 
                   REPATRIATION OF UYGHURS AND OTHER DESIGNATED 
                   ALIENS TO THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

       (a) Denial of Entry.--
       (1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law 
     and except as provided in subsection (b), the Secretary of 
     State may not issue any visa, and the Attorney General or the 
     Secretary of Homeland Security may not admit to the United 
     States or grant any immigration benefit or status to any 
     current or former government official who the Secretary of 
     State determines is or was responsible for, or complicit in, 
     the forced departure from their country of last habitual 
     residence and return to the People's Republic of China of--
       (A) any Uyghur individual; or
       (B) any alien who--
       (i) is a member of any other ethnic or religious group; and
       (ii) is more likely than not to be subject to persecution 
     by the Government of the People's Republic of China, as 
     determined by the Secretary of State.
       (2) Referral to office of foreign assets control.--
     Concurrent with the application of paragraph (1) to an 
     official described in that subsection, the Secretary shall 
     refer the matter to the Office of Foreign Assets Control of 
     the Department of the Treasury to determine whether to apply 
     sanctions authorities in accordance with United States law to 
     block the transfer of property and interests in property, and 
     all financial transactions, in the United States involving 
     such official.
       (b) Waiver.--The Secretary of State may waive the 
     application of subsection (a) with respect to an official 
     described in that subsection if the Secretary determines 
     that--
       (1) such a waiver is in the national interest of the United 
     States; or
       (2) the circumstances that caused the official to be 
     ineligible under that subsection for a visa or an immigration 
     benefit or status have changed sufficiently.
       (c) Report.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, and every 180 days thereafter 
     until the date on which this section ceases to have effect 
     under subsection (d), the Secretary of State shall submit to 
     the appropriate committees of Congress a report that 
     includes, for the period covered by the report--
       (A) information on each official denied admission or an 
     immigration benefit or status under subsection (a)(1); and
       (B) a list of waivers granted under subsection (b), and the 
     justification for each waiver.
       (2) Form.--Each report submitted under this subsection 
     shall be submitted in unclassified form but may include a 
     classified annex.
       (3) Appropriate committees of congress defined.--In this 
     subsection, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' 
     means--
       (A) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on 
     the Judiciary of the Senate; and
       (B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on 
     the Judiciary of the House of Representatives.
       (d) Termination.--This section shall cease to have effect 
     on the date that is 5 years after the date of the enactment 
     of this Act.
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