S.Amdt. 3111

SA 3111. Mr. CARDIN 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 end of subtitle F of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1291. STRENGTHENING PUBLIC REPORTING ON CORRUPTION.

(a) Sense of Congress.-- It is the sense of the Congress
that--
(1) the PRC and its representatives are engaged in
corruption across the globe, targeting public sector
officials with the goal of inducing them to make official
decisions that suit the interests of the PRC in exchange for
personal financial gain;
(2) people across the globe do not want leaders who make
deals to enrich themselves and their families in exchange for
their country's natural resources or agreeing to take on
onerous national debts and loans, which the nation will be
forced to pay back; and
(3) uncovering and bringing to light evidence of this sort
of corruption serves the objective of empowering people
everywhere to bring such practices to end.
(b) Authorization of Funding for Public Reporting on
Corruption and Corrupt Practices.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary of State shall support and
strengthen media and civil society initiatives to uncover and
report on evidence of corruption, with a goal of bringing to
light the corrupt practices of the PRC and its
representatives in every region, and the local leaders who
are accepting these payments.
(2) Authorization of appropriations.--There is authorized
to be appropriated an additional $3,000,000 for each of
fiscal years 2025 through 2029 for the Secretary of State to
carry out this section.
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