S.Amdt. 2398

SA 2398. Mr. SCHMITT submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2025 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 XII, insert the
following:

SEC. __. PROHIBITION APPLICABLE TO GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT CENTER
OF DEPARTMENT OF STATE REGARDING NEWS
DISINFORMATION AND MISINFORMATION.

Section 1287 of the National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 2017 (22 U.S.C. 2656 note) is amended--
(1) in subsection (h), by striking ``subsection (j)'' and
inserting ``subsection (k)'';
(2) by redesignating subsection (j) as subsection (k); and
(3) by inserting after subsection (i) the following:
``(j) Prohibition Regarding News Disinformation and
Misinformation.--None of the funds authorized to be
appropriated or otherwise made available to carry out this

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section shall be used to create, or provide funding to a
foreign government, quasi-governmental organization, or
nonprofit organization for the research, development, or
maintenance of, any list or ranking system relating to
disinformation or misinformation of United States-based news
content, regardless of medium.''.
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