S.Amdt. 2560Senate116th Congress (2019-2021)2nd degree

S.Amdt. 2560

Sponsored by Tom CottonSen. Tom Cotton (R-AR)
Submitted August 4, 2020

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Senate amendment submitted

August 4, 2020

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SA 2560. Mr. COTTON submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 2499 proposed by Mr. McConnell to the bill S. 178, to
condemn gross human rights violations of ethnic Turkic Muslims in
Xinjiang, and calling for an end to arbitrary detention, torture, and
harassment of these communities inside and outside China; which was
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of the amendment, add the following:

SEC. 3. FUNDING LIMITATIONS.

(a) Prohibition.--None of the funds appropriated under this
Act or under the CARES Act (Public Law 116-136), as amended
by this Act, may be provided to an entity that is under the
foreign ownership, control, or influence of--
(1) the Government of the People's Republic of China;
(2) the Chinese Communist Party; or
(3) an entity domiciled in the People's Republic of China.
(b) Clawback.--The Secretary of the Treasury, in
consultation with the Secretary of State, shall recover all
of the amounts appropriated under this Act or under the CARES
Act that were provided to entities described in subsection
(a).
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