S.Amdt. 6356

SA 6356. Mr. WHITEHOUSE (for himself and Mr. Cornyn) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 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 in title X, insert the following:

SEC. ___. COORDINATOR FOR COMBATING FOREIGN KLEPTOCRACY AND CORRUPTION.

Section 101 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3021) is amended--

(1) in subsection (b)--

(A) in paragraph (3), by striking “; and” and inserting a semicolon;

(B) in paragraph (4), by striking the period at the end and inserting “; and”; and

(C) by adding at the end the following:

“(5) coordinate, without assuming operational authority, the United States Government efforts to identify and seize assets that are the proceeds of corruption pertaining to China, Iran, North Korea, or Russia and identifying the national security implications of strategic corruption in such countries.”.

(2) by redesignating subsection (h) as subsection (i); and

(3) by inserting after subsection (g) the following:

“(h) Coordinator for Combating Foreign Kleptocracy and Corruption.--

“(1) In general.--The President shall designate an employee of the National Security Council to be responsible for the coordination of the interagency process for identifying and seizing assets that are that are the proceeds of corruption pertaining to China, Iran, North Korea, or Russia and identifying the national security implications of strategic corruption in such countries.

“(2) Reporting.--The employee designated under paragraph (1) shall report to the Council's Senior Director for Europe.

“(3) Coordination with coordinator for combating malign foreign influence operations and campaigns.--The employee designated under paragraph (1) of this subsection shall coordinate with the employee designated under subsection (g)(1).

“(4) Liaison.--The employee designated under paragraph (1) shall serve as a liaison, for purposes of coordination described in such paragraph, with the following:

“(A) The Department of the Treasury.

“(B) The Department of Justice.

“(C) The Department of Defense.

“(D) The intelligence community.

“(E) The Department of State.

“(F) Good government transparency groups in civil society.”.