S.Amdt. 3619

SA 3619. Mr. RISCH 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 appropriate place in title XII, insert the
following:

SEC. __. REPORT ON MADURO REGIME IN VENEZUELA.

(a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter until the
date that is 10 years after such date of enactment, the
Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Secretary of
State and such other heads of Federal agencies as the
Secretary of Defense considers appropriate, shall submit to
Congress a report that includes the following:
(1) An assessment of the extent to which the regime of
Nicolas Maduro provides safe haven to transnational criminal
organizations and foreign terrorist organizations.

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(2) A list of transnational criminal organizations and
foreign terrorist organizations operating within Venezuela.
(3) An assessment of the extent to which senior members of
the Maduro regime support and protect transnational criminal
organizations operating within Venezuela.
(4) An assessment of the nature and extent of relations
between senior members of the Maduro regime and transnational
criminal organizations and foreign terrorist organizations.
(5) An assessment of the nature and extent of relations
between the security forces of Venezuela and transnational
criminal organizations and foreign terrorist organizations.
(6) A description of the geographic routes of illicit
narcotics flows into Venezuela, within Venezuela, and
outbound from Venezuela.
(7) An assessment of illicit finance flows into Venezuela,
within Venezuela, and outbound from Venezuela.
(8) An assessment of the extent to which members of the
Maduro regime and members of the security forces of Venezuela
actively facilitate the manufacturing or transportation of
narcotics within Venezuela or outbound from Venezuela.
(9) An assessment of whether the Maduro regime conducts
credible counter-narcotics efforts within Venezuela.
(10) An assessment of whether the nature and extent of
relations between members of the Maduro regime and
transnational criminal organizations and foreign terrorist
organizations undermines United States security interests and
counter-narcotics efforts in Colombia.
(11) An assessment of whether the nature and extent of
relations between members of the Maduro regime and
transnational criminal organizations and foreign terrorist
organizations undermines the 2016 agreement between the
Government of Colombia and the FARC.
(12) An assessment of the implications of the nature and
extent of relations between members of the Maduro regime and
transnational criminal organizations and foreign terrorist
organizations for the security and stability of the Caribbean
region.
(13) An assessment of the implications of the nature and
extent of relations between members of the Maduro regime and
transnational criminal organizations and foreign terrorist
organizations for United States security and economic
interests in the Caribbean.
(14) An assessment of the implications of the involvement
of the Ejercito de Liberacion Nacional (ELN) in transnational
criminal activities within Venezuela for Cuba's relations
with the ELN.
(15) An assessment of whether the Maduro regime meets the
criteria for designation as a specially designated global
terrorist and whether such designation would facilitate the
implementation of Executive Order 14157 (relating to
designating cartels and other organizations as foreign
terrorist organizations and specially designated global
terrorists) or Executive Order 13224 (relating to blocking
property and prohibiting transactions with persons who
commit, threaten to commit, or support terrorism).
(b) Foreign Terrorist Organization Defined.--In this
section, the term ``foreign terrorist organization'' means an
organization that is designated as a foreign terrorist
organization under section 219 of the Immigration and
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189).
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