S.Amdt. 2943

SA 2943. Mr. MERKLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 2296, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2026 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 E of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1265. STATEMENT OF POLICY WITH RESPECT TO DEFINITION OF
TRANSNATIONAL REPRESSION.

It is policy of the United States that the term
``transnational repression'' refers to a range of tactics
deployed by a foreign government, or agents or proxies of a
foreign government, to reach beyond their borders to
intimidate, silence, harass, coerce, or harm individuals,
such as political dissidents, activists, journalists,
political opponents, religious and ethnic minority groups,
international students, and members of diaspora and exile
communities.
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