S.Amdt. 443

SA 443. Mr. CRUZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2024 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 subtitle D of title XXXI,
insert the following:

SEC. 31___. PROHIBITION ON SALES OF PETROLEUM PRODUCTS FROM
THE STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE TO CHINA.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary
of Energy shall not draw down and sell petroleum products
from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve--
(1) to any entity that is under the ownership or control of
the Chinese Communist Party or the People's Republic of
China; or
(2) except on the condition that such petroleum products
will not be exported to the People's Republic of China.
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