S.Amdt. 2428Senate116th Congress (2019-2021)
S.Amdt. 2428
Sponsored by
Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-CA)
Submitted July 2, 2020
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July 2, 2020
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SA 2428. Ms. HARRIS (for herself, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Blumenthal, and Mr. Sasse) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2021 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 appropriate place, insert the following: SEC. ___. DISCLOSURE OF STATUS BY NEWS OUTLETS THAT ARE AGENTS OF A FOREIGN PRINCIPAL. Section 4(b) of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended (22 U.S.C. 614(b)) is amended by inserting after the first sentence the following: ``It shall be unlawful for any news or press service or association, newspaper, magazine, periodical, or other publication that is an agent of a foreign principal and required to register under the provisions of this Act to fail to include in any transmission in the United States mails or any transmission made by any means or instrumentality of interstate or foreign commerce (including a transmission by radio, television, or the internet) that is transmitted into the United States a conspicuous statement that the transmission is made by an agent of a foreign principal, and that additional information is on file with the Department of Justice, Washington, District of Columbia.''. ______