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VARIOUS MEASURES

MARKUP

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

ONE HUNDRED FIFTEENTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

H. Res. 256, H. Res. 944, H.R. 1697, H.R. 4969,

H.R. 5576, H.R. 5898, H.R. 6197, H.R. 6207,

and H. Con. Res. 20

JUNE 28, 2018

Serial No. 115–143

Printed for the use of the Committee on Foreign Affairs

(

Available: http://www.foreignaffairs.house.gov/, http://docs.house.gov,

or http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/

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COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS 

EDWARD R. ROYCE, California, Chairman 

CHRISTOPHER H. SMITH, New Jersey 

ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN, Florida 

DANA ROHRABACHER, California 

STEVE CHABOT, Ohio 

JOE WILSON, South Carolina 

MICHAEL T. MCCAUL, Texas 

TED POE, Texas 

DARRELL E. ISSA, California 

TOM MARINO, Pennsylvania 

MO BROOKS, Alabama 

PAUL COOK, California 

SCOTT PERRY, Pennsylvania 

RON DESANTIS, Florida 

MARK MEADOWS, North Carolina 

TED S. YOHO, Florida 

ADAM KINZINGER, Illinois 

LEE M. ZELDIN, New York 

DANIEL M. DONOVAN, JR., New York 

F. JAMES SENSENBRENNER, JR., 

Wisconsin 

ANN WAGNER, Missouri 

BRIAN J. MAST, Florida 

FRANCIS ROONEY, Florida 

BRIAN K. FITZPATRICK, Pennsylvania 

THOMAS A. GARRETT, JR., Virginia 

JOHN R. CURTIS, Utah 

ELIOT L. ENGEL, New York 

BRAD SHERMAN, California 

GREGORY W. MEEKS, New York 

ALBIO SIRES, New Jersey 

GERALD E. CONNOLLY, Virginia 

THEODORE E. DEUTCH, Florida 

KAREN BASS, California 

WILLIAM R. KEATING, Massachusetts 

DAVID N. CICILLINE, Rhode Island 

AMI BERA, California 

LOIS FRANKEL, Florida 

TULSI GABBARD, Hawaii 

JOAQUIN CASTRO, Texas 

ROBIN L. KELLY, Illinois 

BRENDAN F. BOYLE, Pennsylvania 

DINA TITUS, Nevada 

NORMA J. TORRES, California 

BRADLEY SCOTT SCHNEIDER, Illinois 

THOMAS R. SUOZZI, New York 

ADRIANO ESPAILLAT, New York 

TED LIEU, California

AMY PORTER, Chief of Staff THOMAS SHEEHY, Staff Director

JASON STEINBAUM, Democratic Staff Director 

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C O N T E N T S 

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MARKUP ON 

H. Res. 256, Expressing support for the countries of Eastern Europe and 

the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ............................................................ 2

Amendment in the nature of a substitute to H. Res. 256 offered by the 

Honorable Edward R. Royce, a Representative in Congress from the 

State of California, and chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs .............. 7

Amendments to the amendment in the nature of a substitute to H. 

Res. 256 offered by: 

The Honorable Edward R. Royce .......................................................... 13

The Honorable Joe Wilson, a Representative in Congress from 

the State of South Carolina ............................................................... 14

H. Res. 944, Expressing solidarity with and sympathy for the people of 

Guatemala after the June 3, 2018, eruption of the Fuego Volcano ................. 15

Amendment in the nature of a substitute to H. Res. 944 offered by the 

Honorable Norma J. Torres, a Representative in Congress from the State 

of California ...................................................................................................... 18

H.R. 1697, To amend the Export Administration Act of 1979 to include 

in the prohibitions on boycotts against allies of the United States boycotts 

fostered by international governmental organizations against Israel and 

to direct the Export-Import Bank of the United States to oppose boycotts 

against Israel, and for other purposes ................................................................ 20

Amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 1697 offered by the 

Honorable Edward R. Royce ............................................................................ 31

Amendments to the amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 

1697 offered by: 

The Honorable Ron DeSantis, a Representative in Congress from 

the State of Florida ............................................................................ 38

The Honorable Edward R. Royce .......................................................... 39

H.R. 4969, To improve the design and construction of diplomatic posts, and 

for other purposes ................................................................................................ 40

Amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 4969 offered by the 

Honorable Michael T. McCaul, a Representative in Congress from the 

State of Texas ................................................................................................... 46

Amendment to the amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 

4969 offered by the Honorable Dina Titus, a Representative in Congress from the State of Nevada ................................................................ 62

H.R. 5576, To address state-sponsored cyber activities against the United 

States, and for other purposes ............................................................................ 63

Amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 5576 offered by the 

Honorable Ted S. Yoho, a Representative in Congress from the State 

of Florida ........................................................................................................... 84

Amendments to the amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 

5576 offered by: 

The Honorable Gerald E. Connolly, a Representative in Congress 

from the Commonwealth of Virginia ................................................ 104

The Honorable Edward R. Royce .......................................................... 105

H.R. 5898, To require the Secretary of State to develop a strategy on administration policy regarding UNRWA, and for other purposes ............................... 107

Amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 5898 offered by the 

Honorable Lee M. Zeldin, a Representative in Congress from the State 

of New York ...................................................................................................... 110

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Amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 5898 offered by the 

Honorable Lee M. Zeldin, a Representative in Congress from the State 

of New York—Continued

Amendments to the amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 

5898 offered by 

The Honorable David Cicilline, a Representative in Congress from 

the State of Rhode Island .................................................................. 115

The Honorable Scott Perry, a Representative in Congress from 

the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ................................................ 116

H.R. 6197, To amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 

to authorize rewards for thwarting wildlife trafficking linked to transnational organized crime, and for other purposes ................................................. 119

H.R. 6207, To support democracy and accountability in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and for other purposes ...................................................... 122

Amendment to H.R. 6207 offered by the Honorable Edward R. Royce ........... 134

H. Con. Res. 20, Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the execution-style murders of United States citizens Ylli, Agron, and 

Mehmet Bytyqi in the Republic of Serbia in July 1999 .................................... 135

LETTERS, STATEMENTS, ETC., SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD 

APPENDIX 

Markup notice .......................................................................................................... 160

Markup minutes ...................................................................................................... 161

Markup summary .................................................................................................... 163

The Honorable Ted S. Yoho, a Representative in Congress from the State 

of Florida, and chairman, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific: Letter 

from the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America dated 

June 27, 2018 ....................................................................................................... 165

The Honorable David Cicilline, a Representative in Congress from the State 

of Rhode Island: 

UNRWA Programme Budget and Gaza Field Update ...................................... 166

NGO Programs in Gaza and the West Bank Impact by Funding Hold 

during Administrative Review—As of June 15, 2018 .................................... 169

Framework for Cooperation Between the United Nations Relief and Works 

Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East and the United States 

of America, 2018-2019 ...................................................................................... 173

IDF chief: The Likelihood of war has increased substantially ......................... 180

The Honorable Eliot L. Engel, a Representative in Congress from the State 

of New York: Prepared statement ...................................................................... 184

The Honorable Dina Titus, a Representative in Congress from the State 

of Nevada: Prepared statement .......................................................................... 187

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VARIOUS MEASURES 

THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 2018

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS,

Washington, DC. 

The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:00 a.m., in room 

2172 Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Edward Royce (chairman of the committee) presiding. 

Chairman ROYCE. The committee will come to order. 

Pursuant to notice, we meet today to mark up nine bipartisan 

measures. Without objection, all members may have 5 days to submit statements or extraneous material on today’s business. 

As members were notified yesterday, we intend to consider today’s measures en bloc. And so, without objection, the following 

items previously provided to members, and also in your packets, 

will be considered en bloc and they are considered as read. 

House Resolution 256. This is expressing support for the countries of Eastern Europe and for NATO. The Royce Amendment in 

the Nature of a Substitute, Royce Amendment 134, and Wilson 

Amendments 68; House Resolution 944, expressing sympathy for 

the people of Guatemala after the recent volcano eruption with a 

Torres Amendment 11 in the Nature of a Substitute; H.R. 1697, 

the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, the Royce Amendment in the Nature 

of a Substitute, DeSantis Amendment 82, and Royce Amendment 

1; H.R. 4969, the Improving Embassy Design and Security Act of 

2018, McCaul Amendment 105 in the Nature of a Substitute, and 

Titus Amendment 62; H.R. 5576, the Cyber Deterrence and Response Act with Yoho Amendment 137 in the Nature of a Substitute, Connolly Amendment 86, Royce Amendment 2; H.R. 5898, 

the U.N. Relief and Works Agency Accountability Act with the 

Zeldin Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute, Cicilline Amendment 1, Perry Amendment 1; H.R. 6197, the Rescuing Animals and 

Rewards Act; and H.R. 6207, the Democratic Republic of the Congo 

Democracy and Accountability Act with a Royce Amendment 133; 

and House Concurrent Resolution 20 regarding the execution-style 

murders of U.S. citizens in the Republic of Serbia in July 1999. 

[The information referred to follows:]

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lli'im CONGRESS 

18'1' SB8SIOJ\ H. RES. 256 Expres~ing support for the eonntries of Eastern Europe and the North 

AUanLic Treaty Orgauis.oation. 

11\ THE HOUSE OP REPRJ:DSE.:.J'l'ATIVES 

APRTT,6. 3017 

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:VIr COHEN (for himself, lVIr. ~HIMKTTS, Mr. ~IRES, :VIr. HASTINGS, Mr. BARR, 

Mrs. WAGNe;R., .Vlr. l<'Tl'ZPATRTCK, .VIR. SHEA-l'ORl'JCR, Mr. DO)!OVA)!, 

lVIr. ISSA, Mr. CICILLINE, Mr. lVICEACHI)!, Mr. L'IJ\!BORK, Mr. H:.JNTER, 

lVIr. EVANS, Mr. ENGF.L, Mr. MEEKS, Mr. RASKIN, :VIr. B"\.NK:O of Imliana, Mr. SCllH'J<', :VIr. ICJ.JNJ\Jo.:DY, :Ms. II.Ar·,•ug, .:J.Ir. DL~-BAL.cUtT, Mr. 

CARl'WR.Tnwr, Mr. Tnr;.KJCR, 1\fr. CooK, 1\fr. \VTTTMAN, Ms. Ke:u;\- of Illinois, Mr. lVIOTTTil'ON, Mr. S:.T07.7.T, .VIr. COLJC, Mr. KEATTNCL l\1r. l'o;;: 

of T(~xas, :VIr. \VILSOK of South Carolina, and Ms. STEFANIK) snbmitted 

the following resolLttion; which was 1·eferred (.o the Commiltee ou Foreign 

Affair~ 

RESOLUTION 

Expressing support for the countries of Eastern Europe and 

the North Atlanti(~ Treaty Organization. 

\\l1ereas the United States has shm>vl:l :;;trong commitment to 

the independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, and 

democratic development of the countries that emerged 

from the ashes of the former Soviet Union and the comnmnist bloc it once dominated; 

\vl1ereas many of these eountries have, during· the past three 

decades, undertaken the considerable political and economic reforms neeessary to achieve the aspiratio11s for 
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European and Euro-Atlantie integration, or are eontinning to do so; 

\'1rereas the ineorporation of Eastern European (~ountries 

into the J\orth Atlantic Treaty Organization ().!.:\.TO) has 

contributed tmvard a vision of Europe that is aimed at 

promotiug stabilit.Y and cooperation, at building a Europe 

whole and free, united in peace, democracy and common 

values; 

\Vhereas the mission of NATO smce its founding in 1949 is 

to promote democratic values, cooperation on defense and 

seeurity issues, and the peaeefnl resolution of disputes: 

\\1<ereas NATO remains the most important and critical security link between the United States and Europe; 

Whereas 1\ATO allies and partners in Central and Easteru 

Europe, including eountries of the \Vestern Balkans, and 

the former Suv:iet Union have stood alongside the rnited 

States in joint peaee operations in the ~Western Balkans, 

~\fghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere around the glohe; 

Whereas Russia's aggressive actions agaiHSt neighboring 

members of the KATO Alliance and nearby "\I"ATO partner countries, iuelmliug its many violations of Baltic airspace, oeeupation of Georgian territory in 2008, annexation of Crimea in 2014, and continued threats to 

Moldovan territorial integrity and sovereignty, not only 

~violate its commitments under the Helsinki Final Act and 

subse<plent Organization for Seeurity and Cooperation in 

Europe (OSCE) agreements but are also key contributors 

to Europe's instability; 

Whereas NATO reaffirmed its military seeurity commitment 

to the Baltie States in response to increased Russian 

military activitie:-;; 
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v\11ereas KATO allies inereased their assistanee to NATO 

partner countries by endorsing the Substantial NATOGeorgia Paekage m support of Georgia at the \Vales 

Summit, the Comprehensive Assistance Package in support of lDn·aine at the \Varsaw Summit, and developed 

a phased Defense and Related Security Capacity Building 

package in support of Moldova; 

Vvlwreas the European Reassurance Initiative represents the 

United States commitment to enduring peace, stability, 

and territorial integrity in Europe as members and partners of the ;.JATO Allianee: 

\\1<ereas British Prime Minister Theresa May stated, "On 

defense and security cooperation, we're united in our recognition of NATO as the bulwark of our collective defense and we reaffirmed our unshakeable commitment to 

this alliam~e. We're 100% hehiml ;.JATO.": 

\Vhereas Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid stated, "Our 

NATO allies ea11 rely 011 us to ad as agreed iu recent 

summits in Chicago, Wales and Warsaw, our UN partners have appreciated and respected our role in peacekeeping· operations and our European partners knmv that 

Estonia is a reliable partner when there is a crisis" and 

Estonian Prime Minister ,Jtiri Ratas stated, "Our commitment to NATO is steadfast."; 

\\1:lereas Latvian President Raimonds V~jonis stated, "\Ve 

[Latvia] (•ontinue inereasing our defense spending eonsistently on our OYVIL and our allies appreciate that. A 

historic decision on deployment of four multinational battalions in the Baltic States aud Polaud was malic at the 

NATO Summit in \Varsaw this surnmer. This is by far 

the most serious proof of NATO's readiness to defend 
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imlependene.e of the Eastern European (~onntries, induding Lahria."; 

\\l1ereas Czeeh Repuhlie Prime Minster Bohuslav Sobotka 

stated, "NATO is the basis for our security" and that he 

hopes "the United States 1vill remain a solid K A TO partner."; aud 

\Vhereas the United States must remam committed to our 

NATO allies in the faee of any aggression irrespe(~tive of 

their ability to meet the NATO benchmark of spending: 

Now, therefore, be it 

Resolued. That the Hm1se of Represcntatives2 ( 1) condemns any threat to the sovereignty, ter3 ritorial integrity, freedom and democracy of the Dal4 tic States; 

5 (2) condemns the clear, gross, and m1correctecl 

6 ongomg violation of the Helsinki prim~iples hy the 

7 Russian Federation vv:ith respect to the sovereignty 

8 and territorial integrity of Ukraine; 

9 (3) supports keepi11g United States sanctions 

l 0 imposed against Russia relating to Crimea in effect 

11 until Ckraiue's sovereignty over Crimea has been re12 stored, as vvell as sanctions relating to the Donbas 

13 until the Minsk agreements are fully implemented: 

14 (1) considers it essential for the rnited States 

15 to maintain and increase political, economic, and se16 curity support for the countries of Central and East17 ern Europe; 
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( 5) appre(;iates the spirit of friendship of the 

2 countries of Central and Eastern Europe, including 

3 those of the \Vestern Balkans, their (•ommitment to 

4 collective security, and their coutributious, past and 

5 present, to peace operations around the globe; 

6 ( 6) supports kccpiug the door to NATO mem7 bership open to those countries that are eligible to 

8 join the Allianee aml meet all the lW(;essary require9 ments for membership; 

l 0 ( 7) supports and encourages the democratic as11 pirations of the people of all countries ccmcerncd, in12 eluding rkraine, Georgia, and Moldova; and 

13 (8) ealls for eontinued support to the rnited 

14 States European Heassurance Initiative. 
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AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE 

TO H. RES. 256 

OFFERED BY MR. ROYCE OF CALIFORNIA 

Strike the preamble and insert the following: 

\,Vhereas the United States has shmvn strong commitment to 

the independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, and 

!lernoeratie development of the eountries that emerged 

from the ashes of the former Soviet Union and the communist bloc it once dominated; 

\Vhereas many of these countries have, during· the past three 

decades, undertaken the extensive political and economic 

reforms neeessary to a(~hieve their aspirations for European and Euro-Atlantic integration, or are continuing to 

do SO; 

\Vhereas the incorporation of Central and Eastern European 

countries into the :\!" orth Atlantic Treaty Organization 

(NATO) has (~ontributed to a vision of Europe that is 

whole and free and united in peace, democracy, and common values; 

Whereas the mission of NATO since its founding in 1949 is 

to defend its members from aggression, enhance cooperation on !lefense aml seeurity issues, aml promote the 

peaceful resolution of disputes; 

\,vl1ereas NATO remains the most important and critical security link between the United States and Europe; 

"'1<ereas on November 16, 2016, former President Barack 

Obama Rtated, "NATO, the world'R greatest alliance, iR 
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a~ ~trong and a~ really a~ it'~ ever been and I am eonfident that just as America's commitment to the transatlantie allian(~e has endured for ~even de(~ade~-whether 

it's been uuder a Democratic or Republican administration-that commitment >vill continue, including our 

pledge and our treaty obligation to defend every ally."; 

\,Vhereas on July 6, 2017, President Donald J. Trump reiterated the 1~nited States' support of NATO hy saying, "To 

those who would criticize our tough stance, I would point 

out that the United States has demonstrated not merely 

v1rith word~ but with it~ aetion~ that we ~tand firmly behind Article 5, the mutual defense commitment."; 

\,vl1ereas K A TO allies and partners in Central and Eastern 

Europe, includiug countries of the Western Balkans, aud 

the former Soviet Union have stood alongside the rnited 

State~ in joint peaee operation~ in the ~We~tern Balkan~, 

Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere around the globe; 

"'1wreas Russia's aggressive aetions against members of the 

NATO Alliance and nearby NATO partner countries, including its many violations of Baltic airspace, occupation 

of Georgian territmy in 2008, annexation of Crimea in 

2014, and continued threats to Moldovan territorial integTity and sovereignty, not only violate its commitments 

under the Helsinki Final Act and subsequent Organi;.-;ation for Security and Cooperation in Europe ( OSCE) 

agTeernents but al~o foment in~tability in Europe; 

\,Vhereas KATO allies increased their assistance to NATO 

partner countries by endorsing the Substantial NATOGeorgia Package m support of Georgia at the Wales 

Summit, the Comprehensive Assistance Package in support of Ukraine at the \Varsaw Summit, and developed 
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a phased Defense and Related Seeurity Capaeity Building 

package in support of Moldova; 

\\11ereas the European Deterrenee Initiative represents the 

United States commitment to enduring peace, stability, 

and territorial integrity in Europe as mernbers and partuers of the .:.JATO 1\lliauce; 

\Vhereas from September 14 through September 20, 2017, 

Russia hehl a large-seale rnilitm7 exerc:ise in Belarus 

knmvn as Zapad 2017; 

"1<ereas the last Zapad exercise was m 2013 which laid the 

foundations for Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea; 

"1<ereas ='JATO Secretary-General .Jens Stoltenberg expressed concerns about Russia's lack of transparency regarding military exercises; 

"11ereas Secreta17-General Stoltenberg also stated, "Russia 

is our neighbor .... \V e don't want to isolate Russia; we 

don't want a new Cold \Var."; 

"11ereas the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forc~es 

of Russia, Valery Gerasimov, wrote iu 2013 that "informational conflict" is a key part of war; 

Whereas Baltic and NATO officials believe that Russia was 

likely responsible for interruptions in Latvia's mobile 

communications network before the Zapacl exercise; 

\Vhereas the Baltic Center for Investigative Journalism, 

Re:Baltica, discovered that three Baltic Russian-language 

news sites knmvn (~olled,ively as Baltnews are se(~retly 

mvned by Rossiya Segodnya, a news agency owned and 

operated by the Russian Government; 

Whereas on June 28, 2017, Vesko Garcevic, lVlouteuegro's 

ambassador to ='JATO from 2010 through 2014, testified 
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before the Senate Intelligen(~e Committee that Russia has 

provided support to extremist groups and even used the 

eountry' s religious institutions to oppose eloser ties to the 

\V estern world; 

\,vl1ereas on April 4, 2018, Russia began a live-fire military 

exercise in the Baltic Sea, just outside of the territorial 

waters of .:.JATO member countries, in a move a top Latvian defense official called a "show of force" just a day 

after Baltic leaders met ~with President Trump; 

"'1<ereas on ,June 8 ' 2018, KATO Secretary -General 

Stoltenberg spoke of inereases in clefense investments by 

European allies, that "Allies are making real progress on 

all aspects of burden sharing, cash, capabilities and contributions ... But of course, we still have more work to do. 

Durden sharing "~11 be a key theme of our Summit next 

month. And I e:Alled all Allies to eontinue their efforts."; 

and 

"'1wreas the commitment to colledive defense in Artide 5 of 

the North Atlantic Treaty remains at the heart of the ~\1-

liance: Now, therefore, be it 

Strike all after the resolv-ing clause and insert the 

following: 

1 Resolved, That the House of Represeutatives2 (1) affirms the United States enduring commit3 ment to and friemlship >vith its NATO allies; 

4 (2) pledges that the United States will continue 

5 to maintain strong leadership and strengthen its 

6 commitments to NATO; 
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( 8) (~omlemns any threat to the sovereignty, ter2 ritorial integrity, freedom and democracy of NATO 

3 allies; 

4 ( 4) comlenms the clear, gross, and uncorrected 

5 ongoing violation of the Helsinki principles by Rus6 sia with respect to the sovereignty aud territorial in7 tegrity of Ukraine; 

8 (5) supports keeping United States sanetions 

9 imposed against Russia relating to Crimea in effect 

10 until rkraine's sovereignty over Crimea has been re11 stored, as well as sanctions relating to the Donbas 

12 until the Minsk agTeements are fully implemented; 

13 (6) eonsiders it essential for the 1~nited States 

14 to maintain and increase politieal, economic., and se15 eurity support for the (~ountries of Central and East16 ern Europe; 

17 (7) appreciates the spirit of friendship of the 

18 countries of Central and Eastern Europe, including 

19 those of the ~Western Balkans, their commitment to 

20 collective security, and their contributions, past and 

21 present, to peace operations around the globe; 

22 (8) calls for the United States to continue to 

23 support the eountries of Central and Eastern Eu24 rope to secure their electoral processes from foreign 

25 threats; 
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( 9) ~upports and em~ourages the demoeratie a~-

2 pirations of the people of all countries concerned, in3 d1Hling 1~kraine, Georgia, and Moldova; 

4 (10) encourages the countries of Europe to con5 tinue to invest in the indiv-idual, regional, and collec6 tive defense; 

7 ( 11) honors the men and women who served 

8 under KATO and gave their live~ to promote peaee, 

9 security, and international cooperation since 1949; 

10 and 

11 (12) calls for continued support to the Cnited 

12 States' European Deterrence Initiative. 

Amend the title so as to read: "A resolution expressmg ~upport for the North Atlantie Treaty Organization 

and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.". 
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AMENDMENT TO THE AMENDMENT IN THE 

NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE TO H. RES. 256 

OFFERED BY MR. ROYCE OF CALIFORNIA 

In the ninth clause of the preamble-

(1) strike "annexation" and insert "illegal occupation"; and 

(2) strike "in 2014" and insert "since 2014". 

Strike the 18th clause of the preamble and insert 

the follovving: 

\,v11ereas three Baltie Russian-language news sites knovvn (~ollectively as Baltnews are secretly mvnecl by Rossiya 

Segodnya, a news agency owned and operated by the 

Russian Government; 
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AMENDMENT TO THE AMENDMENT IN THE 

NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE TO H. RES. 256 

OFFERED BY MR. WILSON OF SOUTH CAROLINA 

Insert after the eighth clause of the preamble the 

follmving: 

"\v1<ereas NATO established the Euro-Atlantie Partnership 

Coum~il to promote, among other prioritie~, (~ounter-terrorism, non-proliferation, and crisis management cooperation as well as advancing values, including respect 

of interuational law and peaceful resolution of disputes; 
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lli'im CONGRESS 

2D 8ESSI01\ H. RES. 944 

IV 

EApresHing Nolidarity with and sympathy for the people of C+uatemala aftt'r 

the June 3, 2018, empcion of the FLLego Volcano. 

lK THE HOUSE OP REPHESE~'l'ATlVES 

,JTT'JF] 14, 2018 

Mrs. TORRES (for herself and :\Ir. SMITH of New Jersey) submitted the 

follo\\~ng resolution; whi~h was rrfrrn•d to the Committer on l<'oreign Affaim 

RESOLUTION 

]};q)ressing solidarity vvith and sympathy for the people of 

Guatemala after the June 3, 2018, eruption of the Puego 

Voleano. 

'"11ereas, on Sunday, ,June :3, 2018, Guatemala's Fuego Volcano, which borders the Chimaltena~w, Esquiutla, and 

Saeatepequez Departments, erupted, spewing toxie gas, 

vokani(~ ash, aml rod'- into the surrounding area: 

\Vhereas according to Guatemala's natural disaster commission, CO "\fRED, more than 100 people have died, at least 

Hl7 arc missiug, more than 12,500 have been evacuated 

from affected areas, and over '1. 000 sheltered; 

"11ereas, on .Tune :1, 201R, the President of Guatemala, 

,Jimmy Morales, declared :3 days of national mouriling; 
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\\l1ereas, on .Tune 6, 201R, the United States Embassy in 

Guatemala announced that the rnited States would provide an initial contribution of $:100,000 in humanitarian 

assistaucc; 

\\1wreas, on ,June 7, 2018, six pediatrie burn patients arrived 

safcl.Y at Shriners Hospital in Galveston, 'l'exas, following 

close coordination between the Department of State, the 

United States Mission in Guatemala, and the Department of Defense, in collaboration >vith Shriners International and the Guatemalan Government: 

vvl1ereas rains and the ywro-;isten(~e of voleanie ash and toxie 

gases have further impeded recovery efforts; 

\\1wreas Guatemala is a longstanding United States ally and 

important economic partner; 

\\1wreas there are more than 1 ,000,000 Guatemalan-Amerieans living in the Unite<l States: and 

\Vhereas there are as many as 6,500 United States c-itizens 

living in Guatemala: Now, therefore, he it 

1 Resolt•ed. That the House of Representatives2 ( 1) e:J.q)l·esses its solidarity with and deepest 

3 sympathy for the people of Guatemala, especially the 

4 ~victims of the volcano eruption, and their families; 

5 ( 2) rer.ognizes the efforts of Guatemalan first 

6 responders and c-itizen volunteers who have coura7 geously rescued sur"~livors and provided emergenc-y 

8 assistance; 
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( :1) re(~ognizes the voluntary donations made by 

2 United States eitizens, eompanies, and charities to 

3 relief and reeonstruetion efforts; 

4 ( 4) urges the Cnited States Ag·eney for luter5 national Development and other relevant rnited 

6 States agcneies to eontinue to provide relief and re7 eonstruetion assistanee, using loeal proeurement to 

8 the gTeatest extent possible. 

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AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE 

TO H. RES. 944 

OFFERED BY MRS. TORRES OF CALIFORNIA 

Strike all after the resolving clause and insert the 

follmving: 

1 That the House of R,epresentatives2 ( 1) expresses its solidarity with and deepest 

3 sympathy for the people of Guatemala, especially the 

4 v-ictims of the volcano eruption, and their families; 

5 ( 2) recognizes the efforts of Guatemalan first 

6 responders and citihen volunteers who have coura7 geously rescued survivors and provided emergency 

8 assistanee; 

9 ( 8) re(~ognizes the voluntary donations made by 

10 United States citizens, eompanies, and charities to 

11 relief and reconstruetion efforts; and 

12 ( 4) urges the Cnited States Ag·ency for luter13 national Development and other relevant rnited 

14 States ageneies to eontinue to provide relief and re15 construetion assistance, using loeal procurement to 

16 the gTeatest extent possible. 

Strike the preamble and insert the follo"-ing: 
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\,v11ereas, on Sunday, ,Tune :1, 2018, Guatemala's Fuego Volcano, which borders the Chimaltenago, Esquintla, and 

Saeatepequez Departments, erupted, spewing toxie gas, 

volcanic ash, and rock into the surrounding area; 

"11ereas according to Guatemala's natural disaster commission, CO.:.JRED, more than 100 people have died, at least 

197 are missing, more than 12,500 have been evacuated 

from affected areas, and over 4, 000 sheltered: 

\,Vhereas, on June :3, 2018, the President of Guatemala, 

,Jimmy Morales, declared 3 clays of national mourning; 

"1wreas, on June 6, 2018, the United States Embassy m 

Guatemala announced that the rnited States would pro-

,~de an initial contribution of $300,000 in humanitarian 

assistance; 

"11ereas, on ,June 7, 2018, six pediatric burn patients arrived 

safely at Shriners Hospital in Galveston, Texas, following 

close coordination between the Department of State, the 

United States Mission in Guatemala, and the Department of Defense, in collaboration with Shriners International and the Guatemalan Government; 

"1wreas rains and the persistence of volcanic ash and toxic 

gases have further impeded recovery efforts; and 

"11ereas Guatemala is a longstanding United States economic and security partner: Now, therefore, be it 
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lHim CONGRESS 

18'1' SJ.JSSIOJ\ H. R. 1697 

To amend the E:zqJOrt. AdminiNtration Aet of 1}17!-J to inelude in the prohibitions on boycotts against allies of the Uniced States boycotts fostered 

by international governmental organi;,ations against Israel and to direct 

the EAlJOit-Import Bank of the United States to oppose boycotts again~t 

lsrarL and for otl1cr purposes. 

TK TilE HOUSE OF REPRESE)J'TATnTES 

l\fARCH 23, 2017 

:\Ir. ROSK1\J\I (Lor himself, Mr. VARGM', Mr. ZELDIK, aml :\Ir. SHERJVIAN) introduced the folloV<ing bill; which was referred to the Committee on For-

··ir,m Affaim, and in additi011 to the Committee on Financial 8erv~crs, for 

a period to be suhscq1wntly detcrmi11Cd by r,he Speaker, in cacl1 rase for 

<·on~ideration of sueh pro'Ji~ions a8 fall within the juriNdi<·tion of the <·.ommil!ee concerned 

A BILL 

To amend the E:x-port Administration Act of 1979 to include 

in the prohibitions on boycotts against allies of the 

United States boycotts fostered by interuational governmental organizations against Israel and to direct the 

E:x11ort-Import Bank of the United State,; to oppo"e hoycotts against Israel, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted the Senate and House qf Representa2 fives of thr: United States 
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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Aet may he eite!l as the "Israel Anti-Boycott 

3 Act". 

4 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

5 Cougrcss finds the followiug: 

6 (1) The United Kations Human Rights Council 

7 (in this seetion referre\1 to as the "U::\fHRC'') has 

8 long targeted Israel >vith systematic, politically moti9 vated assaults on its legitimacy designed to stig10 mati;.;;c aml isolate Israel internationally. 

11 (2) The UKHRC maintains a permanent agen12 da item known as "Item 7" to ensure that Israel will 

13 be criticized at every gathering of the UNHRC. 

14 (3) At its 31st session on March 24,2016, the 

15 UNHRC targeted Israel with a commercial boycott, 

16 calling for the establishment of a database, such as 

17 a "bladdist", of companies that operate, or have 

18 business relations with entities that operate, beyond 

19 Israel's 1949 Armistice lines. including East ,J eru20 salem. 

21 ( 4) At its 32nd sesswn m March 2017, the 

22 UNHRC is (~onsidering a resolution pursuant to 

23 agenda item 7 to v1cithhold assistance from and pre24 vent trade v.~th "territories occupied since 1 96 7", in25 cludiug Bast Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the 

26 Golan Heights, stating that businesses that engage 
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in eeonomi(~ activity in those areas (•ouM faee eould 

2 face civil or criminal legal action. 

3 ( 5) For a half ('entury, CongTess has eornhated 

4 anti-Israel boycotts aud other discrimiuatory activity 

5 under the E:qxwt Administration Act of 1 9 79 (as 

6 continued in effect pursuant to the International 

7 Emergeney Eeonomic Powers Aet (50 r.S.C. 1701 

8 et seq.)), under part. \TI of title X of the Tax Reform 

9 Act of 197ti (Public. Law 94-,155; 90 Stat. 1649) 

l 0 ( eommonly referred to as the "Ribicoff Amend11 ment''), in free trade agreements with Bahrain aud 

12 Oman, and in Saudi Arabia's aeeession negotiations 

13 to the ~World Trade Organization. 

14 (6) The reeent action of the rNHRC is renu15 nit·went of the Arab League Boyeott, whieh also 

16 called for the establishment of a "blacklist" and pro17 moted a primary, as well as a seeondary and ter18 tiary, boycott against Israel, targeting Uuited States 

19 and other companies that trade or invest with or in 

20 Israel, designed to harm Israel, any business oper21 ating in, or doing business ~with, Israel, or eompanies 

22 that do business \Vith companies operating in Israel. 

23 (7) Congress recently passed anti-boyeott, di24 vestment, and sanctions measures in the Bipartisan 

25 Congressional Trade Priorities and Aecmmtability 
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A(~t of 2015 (19 U.S.C. 4201 et seq.) and seetion 

2 909 of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforce3 ment Aet of 2015 (19 U.S.C. 4452), whieh establish, 

4 amoug other things5 (A) the opposition of the United States to 

6 actions to boycott, clivest from, or sanction 

7 Israel; 

8 (B) requirements that the United States 

9 utilize trade negotiations to combat state-led or 

I 0 international governmental organization-led ac11 tions to boycott, divest from, or sanction Israel; 

12 

13 

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and 

(C) reporting- requirements reganling the 

actions of foreign countries or international organizations that establish harriers to trade or 

investmcut for United States companies in or 

with Israel. 

18 SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 

19 Congress20 (1) opposes the United Kations Human Rights 

21 Council resolution of March 2'1, 2016, which urges 

22 countries to pressure their own companies to divest 

23 from, or break coHtracts with, Israel, and calls for 

24 the creation of a "blacklist'' of companies that either 

25 operate, or have business relations with entities that 
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operate, beyond Israel's 19M) Armisti(~e lines, indud2 ing East ,Jerusalem; 

3 (2) views sueh polieies as aetions to boyeott, di4 vest from, or sauction Israel; and 

5 (3) in order to counter the effects of actions to 

6 boycott, divest from, or sauction Israel, encourages 

7 full implementation of the United States-Israel Stra8 tegie Partnership Act of 2014 (Puhli(; Law 11:'3-296; 

9 128 Stat. ,,W75) through enhanced, governmentvvide, 

l 0 coordinated United States-Israel scientific and tech11 nological cooperation iu civiliau areas such as with 

12 respect to energy, water, agTicnlture, alternative fuel 

13 technology, eiv:ilian srnwe tedmology, and seeurity. 

14 SEC. 4. ADDITIONAL PROHIBITIONS RELATING TO FOR15 EIGN BOYCOTTS UNDER EXPORT ADMINIS16 TRATION ACT OF 1979. 

17 DECI,AR~TION OF POIJICY.-Section 3(5) of the 

18 Export Administration Act of HH9 (50 L:.S.C. 4602(5)) 

19 (as continued in effect pursuant to the International 

20 Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et 

21 seq.)) is amended22 ( 1) by amending subparagraph (A) to read as 

23 follows: 

24 "(A) to oppose-
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"(i) restrietive trade pradiees or hoy2 cotts fostered or imposed by foreign coun3 tries, or re<pwsts to impose restridive 

4 trade practiees or boyeotts by foreign eoun5 tries, against other countries friendly to 

6 the United States or against any Cuited 

7 States person; and 

8 "(ii) restridive trade pnwtiees or hoy9 eotts fostered or imposed by any inter-

] 0 national governmental organization against 

11 Israel or requests to impose rcstrietive 

12 trade praetices or boycotts by any inter13 national governmental organization again::lt 

14 Israel;"; and 

15 (2) in subparagraph (B), by striking "whieh 

16 have the effect" and all the follows and inserting the 

17 follmving: "which have the effeet of furthering or 

18 supporting·-

19 "(i) restrietive trade practices or boy20 cotts fostered or imposed by any foreign 

21 country, or requests to impose restrictive 

22 trade practices or boycotts by any foreign 

23 country, against a country friendly to the 

24 rnited States or against any rnited 

25 States person; and 
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3 

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"(ii) restrietive trade pnwtiees or boycotts fostered or imposed by any international guvernrnental organization against 

Israel or requests to impose restrictive 

trade practices or boycotts by any international govermneutal orgauizatiou against 

Israel; and". 

8 (h) FcmEIC+~ BOYCOTTS.-Seetion R of the E::qJOrt 

9 Administration Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. 4607) (as continl 0 ued in effeet pursuant to the International Emergency 

11 Eeouomic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)) is amend12 erl13 

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( 1) in suhsed,ion (a)( 1 )-

(A) in the matter preeecling subparagraph 

(A)-

( i) by insertiug ", or request to impose any boycott by a foreign country,'' 

after "a foreigu country"; 

(ii) by inserting ", or support any 

boycott fostered or imposed by any international governmental organization against 

Israel or request to impose any boycott by 

any international governmental organization against Israel" after "pursuant to 

rnited States law or reg11lation"; 
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(B) in "mhparagn1.ph (A), by inseri.ing- "or 

international governmental organization (as the 

ease may be)" after "of the hoy(•.otting conntrv"· and v ' 

(C) in subparagraph (D)-

(i) by inserting ", or requestiug the 

furnishing of information," after "Furnishing- information"; and 

( ii) inserting "or with the international governmental organi7.ation (as the 

ease rnay after "in the boycotting 

12 country"; and 

13 ( 2) in suhst~(·tion (e)-

14 (A) by inserting ", or requests to impose 

15 restrietive trade praeti(~es or hoy(~otts by foreign 

16 countries," after "foreign countries"; and 

17 (B) by inserting "or restrictive trade prac18 tiees or boycotts fostered or imposed by any 

19 international governmental organization against 

20 Israel or requests to impose restrictive trade 

21 practices or boycotts by an.v international gov22 ernmental organization against Israel" before 

23 the period at the end. 

24 (e) VIOLATIONS OF SECTIO:'f S(a).-Seetion 11 of the 

25 ]};q)ort Administration Act of 1979 (50 U.S. C. 461 0) (as 
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eontinued in effeet pursuant to the International Emer2 gency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)) is 

3 amended4 ( 1) in subsection (a), by iuserting "or (j)" after 

5 "subsection (b)"; and 

6 by addi ug at the end the followiug: 

7 "(j) VIOLATIO~S OF SECTIOK 8(a).-\Vlcoever know8 ingly violates or eonspires to or attempts to violate any 

9 provision of section S(a) or any regulation, order, or lil 0 cense issued thereunder shall be fined in accordance ~with 

11 section 206 of the lnteruatioual Emergency Ecouomic 

12 Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) .. 

13 (d) DEFINITIO~ OF INTEBKATIO~~\L GOv""EBN14 :\IE~T.t\L 0BGANIZATION.-Section 16 of the E:x}lort Ad15 ministration Aet of 1979 (50 U.S.C. 4618) (as eontinuea 

16 in effect pursuaut to the International Emergency Eco17 nomic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)) is amencled18 (1) by redesignating paragraphs (7) and (8) as 

19 paragraphs ( 8) and respectively: and 

20 (2) by inserting after paragraph (6) the fol21 lcnving: 

22 " ( 7) the term 'international governmental orga23 nilOation' includes the United Nations and the Euro24 pean rnion;". 
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(e) EFFECTI\'E DATE.-The amendments made by 

2 this section take effect on the date of the enactment of 

3 this Aet and apply >vith respeet to adions lleserihed m 

4 section S(a) of the Export Administration Act of 1979 (as 

5 continued in effect pursuant to the International Emer6 gcncy Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)) 

7 taken or knowingly agreed to be taken on or after such 

8 !late of emwtment. 

9 (f) IMPLEMEKTATION.-The President shall impleJ 0 rnent the amendments made by this section by exercising 

11 the authorities of the President uuder the International 

12 Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et 

13 seq.). 

14 SEC. 5. POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES RELATING TO BOY15 COTT OF ISRAEL UNDER EXPORT-IMPORT 

16 BANK ACT OF 1945. 

17 Section 2 (b)( 1) (B) of the Export-Import Bank Act 

18 of 1945 (12 L.S.C. 633(b)(l)(B)) is amended in the sixth 

19 sentence by inserting after "child labor),'' the follow~ng: 

20 "or opposing polieies and actions that are politically moti21 vated and are intended to penalize or otherwise limit com22 Inercial relations specifically >v~th eitizens or residents of 

23 Israel, entities organized under the laws of Israel, or the 

24 Government of Israel, • •. 
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1 SEC. 6. DEFINITIONS. 

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lK GEJ\'ERAL.-ln this Ad: 

(1) ACTIONS '1'0 BOYCOTT, DIVEST l''lW~\1, OR 

SANCTTOK TSR.AEJJ.-The term "actions to boycott, 

divest from, or sanction Israel" has the meaning 

given that term in section 102(b)(20)(B) of the Bipartisan Congressional Tra(le Priorities and A<~-

countability Act of 2015 (19 U.S.C. 

4201(b)(20)(B) ). 

(2) lNTERNA'l'lOl\AL GOVKI:tl\NU::.\ITAL ORGA:\1-

ZATION.-The term "international governmental organi:~:ation" includes the United Nations and the European Union. 

(3) POTJTTTC:\LTN MOTTV.\TED.-The term "politically motivated" means actions to impede or constrain commerce w'ith Israel that are intended to coen~e politi(~al ~wtion from or impose poli<~y poo-;itions 

on Israel. 

(b) RnjE OF CONSTR.UCTTON.-Nothing in this Rec20 tion shall be construed to alter the established policy of 

21 the United States or to establish new United States policy 

22 eoneerning· final status io-;sues am.::o(,iated •Nith the Arab23 Israeli conflict, ineluding border delineation, that can only 

24 be resolved through direct negotiations between the par25 tics. 
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AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE 

TO H.R. 1697 

OFFERED BY MR. ROYCE OF CALIFORNIA 

Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the 

follmving: 

1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the "Israel .L\nti-Boycott 

3 Act". 

4 SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 

5 It is the sense of Congress that6 (1) the Government of the United States should 

7 use its voice, vote, and influence >vith and in interS national governmental organizations to actively op9 pose politi(~ally rnotivate!l adions to hoy(~ott, divest 

10 from, or sanction Israel; 

11 (2) the Government of the rnited States com12 bats anti-Israel boycotts and other discriminatory 

13 activity under the Export Administration Act of 

14 1979 (as (~ontinued in effe(~t pursuant to the Inter15 national Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 

16 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)), under part vTJ of title X of 

17 the Tax Reform Act of 1976 (Public Law 94-455; 

18 90 Stat. 1649) (commonly referred to as the 
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"Rihieoff Amemlment" ), throug-h trade promotion 

2 authorities, in free trade agreements, and in acces3 sion negotiations to the \Vorla Trade Organization; 

4 however, due to the iucreased auti-Israel ecouomic 

5 activity in international governmental organihations, 

6 it is necessary to update Pederal authorities to com7 bat anti-Israel boycotts and other discriminatory ac8 tivity in SU(~h fora, indmling the United Nations 

9 Human Rights Council; 

10 (3) actions to boycott, divest from, or sanction 

11 Israel represent a concerted effort to extract conces12 sions from Israel outside of direct negotiations be13 tween the Israelis and Palestinians; and 

14 ( 4) the United States-Israel Strategic PartnerIS ship Aet of 2014 (Puhlie Law 11:1-296; 128 Stat. 

16 4075) should be fully implemented through en17 hanced, government-wide, coordinated rnited 

18 States-Israel scieutific and technolog·ical cooperatiou 

19 in civilian areas, such as vvith respect to energy, 

20 water, agTiculture, alternative fuel technology, civil21 ian space technology, and security in order to 

22 counter the effects of actions to boycott, divest from, 

23 or sanction Israel. 
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1 SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 

2 Congress !ledares it is the poli(~y of the 1~nited 

3 States4 (1) to oppose restrictive trade practices or boy5 cotts fostered or imposed by auy iuternational gov6 ernmental organization against other countries 

7 friendly to the United States or against any Unite!l 

8 States person, such as the United Nations Human 

9 R,ights Council resolution adopted on March 24, 

10 2016 (or similar successor resolutious), based ou a 

11 2013 United Nations Human Rights Council report, 

12 which urges companies not to operate beyond 

13 Israel's 1949 Armistice lines, ineluding East J eru14 salem, and calls for the creation of a database of 

15 compauies that have "euablcd, facilitated, aud prof16 ited from the construction and grcnvth of the settle17 ments" beyond Israel's 1949 Armistiee lines, indud18 ing East Jerusalem, and related actions; and 

19 (2) to encourage and, in specified cases, require 

20 Uuited States persous engaged in the export of 

21 goods or technology or other information to refuse to 

22 take adions, induding furnishing information or en23 tering into or implementing agreements, which have 

24 the effect of furthering or supporting a restrictive 

25 trade practice or boycott fostered or imposed by any 

26 international governmental organi7.ation against a 
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eountry whieh is friendly to the United States or 

2 against any United States person. 

3 SEC. 4. ISSUANCE OF REGULATIONS RELATING TO RE· 

4 STRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES AND BOY· 

5 COTTS FOSTERED OR IMPOSED BY INTER· 

6 NATIONAL GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS. 

7 (a) IN GENERAL.-Kot later than 180 days after the 

8 date of the ena(~trnent of this Ad, the President shall issue 

9 regulations to amend part 760 of title 15, Code of Federal 

10 Reg11lations, relating to restrictive trade practices or boy11 cotts, to prohibit a United States person, with respect to 

12 such person's acti,~ties in the interstate or foreign com13 meree of the United States, from taking or knowingly 

14 agreeing to take actions, inc.luding furnishing information 

15 or entering into or implementing agreements, with intent 

16 to comply with, further, or support a restrictive trade 

17 practice or boycott fostered or imposed by any interIS national governmental organization against a country 

19 which is friencUy to the United States and which is not 

20 itself the object of any form of boycott pursuant to United 

21 States law or regulation. 

22 (b) APPLICATIOK TO I:~\DIVIDl~ALS WHO ARE OWN23 ERS, 0I<'FlCERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES OR AGEKTS OF 

24 UNITED STATES PERSONS.-Consistent "ith enforcement 

25 practices under section 8 of the E.,.,.-port Administration 
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Ad of 1979 (50 1~.S.C. 4607) (as continued in effed, pur2 suant to the International Emergency Economic Powers 

3 Ad (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) as in effeet on the !late of 

4 the enactment of this Act, in the case of an individual 

5 who is an owner, officer, director, employee or agent of 

6 a United States person, the regulations issued under sub7 section (a) shall apply only vvith respect to the individual's 

8 adivities umlertaken in the individual's eapaeity as the 

9 owner, officer, director, employee or agent of the rnited 

10 States person. 

11 (c) RULE 01:<' Co~S'l'lWC'l'lO~.-Consistent with en12 foreement praetices under section 8 of the E:..lJort Admin13 istration Ad, of 1979 (50 U.S.C. 4607) (as eontinued in 

14 effect pursuant to the Intenmtional Emergeney Eeonomic 

15 Powers Ad, (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) as in effed on the 

16 date of the enaetment of this Aet, nothing· in this seetion 

17 or any regulation issued under subseetion (a) shall be eon18 strued to permit a United States person's noncommereial 

19 speech or other noncommercial eA.lJressive aetivity to be 

20 used21 ( 1) as evidence to prove a violation of this see22 tion or any regulation issued under this section; or 

23 (2) as the basis for initiating an investigation 

24 into whether such a violation has oceurred. 
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1 SEC. 5. REPORT ON ACTIONS WITH RESPECT TO UNITED 

2 NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL RESOLU3 TION AJHRC/31/L.39. 

4 Not later than 120 days after the date of the enact5 ment of this Act, the President shall submit to the appro6 pr-iate congressional committees a report that contains7 (1) a de~eription of ~wtion~ that the United Na8 tions Office of the High Commissioner for Human 

9 R,ights has taken regarding the rnited Nations 

10 Human Rights Council Resolution 1VHRC/31/L.39 

11 adopted on March 24, 2016, \vith respect to Israel; 

12 (2) an accounting of the financial costs to the 

13 United States of the actions described in paragraph 

14 (1); and 

15 (3) a detailed summary of United States diplo16 matic initiatives taken to oppose and influence the 

17 implementation of United Nation~ Human Right~ 

18 Council Resolution A/HRC/31/L.39. 

19 SEC. 6. DEFINITIONS. 

20 In this Act: 

21 ( 1) APPROPRIATE CO~GRESSIONAL COJVDIIT22 TEES.-The term "appropriate (~ongre~~ional eorn23 mittees" means24 (A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of 

25 the House of Representatives; and 
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(B) the Committee on Banking-, Housing, 

2 and Urban Affairs and the Committee on For3 eign Relations of the Senate. 

4 (2) lN'l'BRNA'l'lOl\"AL GOVERl\"NlB.\f'l'AL ORQA_'\"1-

5 .Y;i\TTON.-The term "international governmental or6 ganization" includes the U uited Nations and the Bu7 rope an Union. 

Amend the title so as to read: "A bill to direct the 

President to issue regulations to in(~lude in the prohibitions on boycotts against countries friendly to the rnited 

States restrictive trade practices or boycotts fostered by 

international governmental organi:,-;ations, and for other 

purposes.". 
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AMENDMENT TO THE AMENDMENT IN THE 

NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE TO H.R. 1697 

OFFERED BY MR. DESANTIS OF FLORIDA 

Page 6, line 14, strike "and". 

Page 6, line 18, strike the period at the end and insert "; and". 

Page 6, after line 1 8, add the follmving: 

( 4) an assessment of the impact of United N a2 tions Human Rights Council Resolution A/HRC/:31/ 

3 h39 on United States companies. 

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AMENDMENT TO THE AMENDMENT IN THE 

NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE TO H.R. 1697 

OFFERED BY MR. ROYCE OF CALIFORNIA 

Page 4, liuc 21, add at the end before the period the 

follmving: "or against any United States person". 

Amend section 4(b) to read as follows: 

(b) APPTJTCATTOK TO TNDTVTDTTAU:;;.-Consistent with 

2 enforcement practices uudcr section 8 of the Export Ad3 ministration Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. 4G07) (as continued 

4 in effeet pursuant to the International Ernergem~y Eeo5 nomic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)) as in effect 

6 on the date of the ena(~trnent of this A(~t, the regulations 

7 issued uudcr subsection (a) shall apply ouly with respect 

8 to the activities of an individual if such individual's activi9 tics arc undcrtakcu iu the individual's capacity as au 

10 crvvner, officer, director, employee, or agent of a rnited 

11 States person. 
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lHim CONGRESS 

2D SESSIOJ\ H.R.4969 

To improve the df!Hign and <oonstrndion of diplomatie postH, an<l for other 

parposes. 

H\ THE HOUSE OP REPl:UJSE~'l'A'l'lVBJS 

l<'F::iRL4.R.Y 7, 2018 

Mr. l\IcCAT~L introduced the following bill; which was reff\rred to the 

Committcr on l<'oreig11 ,\ffairs 

A BILL 

To improve the design and eonstmction of diplomatie posts, 

and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 hves of the United States 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Aet may be eited as the "Imprm':ing Embassy 

5 Design and Seeurity Act of 2018". 

6 SEC. 2. IMPROVING EMBASSY CONSTRUCTION. 

7 (a) FTNDT~cts.-Congress finds that the decision by 

8 the Department of State's Bureau of Overseas Buildings 

9 Operations ("OBO") to transition from Standard Em10 hassy Design to Design Exeellem·e has in many eases-
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( 1) in(~reased the eost of building new embassies 

2 and consulates: 

3 ( 2) clelayed the move of thousands of staff from 

4 facilities that do not meet current security standards 

5 to new, secure facilities; 

6 (3) exacerbated certain deficiencies in the qual7 ity of the Bureau's program management; 

8 ( 4) been a faetor in redm~ed competition for 

9 capital constn1ction projects; and 

l 0 (5) been a complicating factor in achievi11g the 

11 Department's owu security requirements. 

12 (h) SR:-JSR OF CONGR.RSS.-Tt is the sense of Con13 gress that the OBO should give appropriate eonsideration 

14 to Standard Embassy Design, in which each new embassy 

15 and eonsulate starts with a standard desigTl aml keeps 

16 customi:-m.tion to a minimum. 

17 (e) DELIVERY.-

18 (1) DESIGN-BUILD PROJECT DELIVEHY.-Ex19 cept in cases in which the Secretary of State deter20 mines that such wonld not be appropriate, the Sec21 retary shall make use of the design-build project de22 livery system at diplomatic posts that have not yet 

23 received design or construction contracts as of the 

24 date of the enaetment of this Act. 
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(2) STiLNDARD DESIGN.-The Seeretary of 

2 State shall give preferenee to the use of a standard 

3 design, together with design-build delivery under 

4 paragraph ( 1). 

5 (3) VRRTTCM, STAND.\R.D DF:STGN.-The See6 retary of State shall develop a vertieal staudard de7 sign that can be implemented according to the De8 partment of State's re<1nisite seenrity and Npatial 

9 needs for diplomatic posts that are to be situated on 

10 a smaller plot of land. 

11 ( 4) BRlDOl-"<'G.-The Secrctar.Y of State shall 

12 make use of bridging to adapt the standard design 

13 under paragntph (2) ·with design-build projeet deliv14 ery under paragraph (1) at diplomatic posts that re15 quire a more eustomized aesigTl due to dimati(~, geo16 graphic, or fuuctional requirements. 

17 OTHER APPLICATI0~.-

18 (A) 1-"<' GEl\ER~-lli.-The Secretary of State 

19 may make use of design-bid-build delivery vvith 

20 non-standard design in limited instanees of par21 ticular diplomatic importance as determined by 

22 the Secretary. 

23 (B) LnHTATION.-The Secretary of State 

24 may not delegate the authority of the Secretary 
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under ~nbparagn1.ph (A) to make u~e of de~ignbid-build delivery 1:v:ith non-standard design. 

3 (d) CoKsrLTATION REC+ARDI~H+ No:-J-ST~~KDABD 

4 Dl'JSIGNS.-'l'he Secretary of State shall carry out auy new 

5 diplomatic post project that is in the design phase or pre6 dcsigu phase as of the date of the enaetment of this Act 

7 and that utilizes bridging or non-standard design under 

8 ~uh~eetion (e) only after notifieation to and eon~ultation 

9 1vith the appropriate congressional committees. Such notil 0 fication and consultation shall include provision to the ap11 propriate congressional committees, for each such prqjcct, 

12 of the following documentation: 

13 ( 1) A eompari~on of the e~timated full life(~yde 

14 costs of the project at issue to the estimated full 

15 lifeeyde eo~ts of ~neh projeet if sueh projeet were to 

16 usc a standard desi12·n. 

17 (2) A comparison of the estimated eompletion 

18 date of sueh prqject to the estimated eompletion 

19 date of such project if sueh projeet >vere to use a 

20 standard design. 

21 ( 3) A comparison of the security of such eom22 pleted projeet to the security of such completed 

23 project if sueh eompleted prqject were to use a 

24 standard design. 
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( 4) A ju~t.ifieation for the Seeretary's seleetion 

2 of a non-standard design over a standard design for 

3 ~neh projeet. 

4 (e) PEHFOHlVlANCB EVALL~TlON.-Not later thau 

5 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 

6 Secretary of State shall report to the appropriate congrcs7 sional committees regarding performance evaluation meas8 ure~ in line with GAO's "Standard~ for Internal Control 

9 in the Federal Government" that will be applicable to the 

l 0 Bureau of Overseas Building Operations of the Depart11 ment of State. 

12 (f) DFJFTNTTTONS.-Tn this section: 

13 ( 1) ArPROPRIATE CO~(}R.ESSIONAL COlVI:.\IIT14 TEES.-The term "appropriate eongressional com15 mittee~" mean~ the Committee on Foreign Affairs of 

16 the House of Representatives and the Committee on 

17 Foreign Relations of the Senate. 

18 (2) BI:UDGING.-The term "bridging" means a 

19 delivery method for construction projects that is a 

20 hybrid of the traditional "desig11-bid-huild" and the 

21 "design-build" methods, whereby the Bureau of 

22 Overseas Building Operations of the Department of 

23 State first eontraets with a desigu firm to develop a 

24 project-specific, partial design that a construction 

25 contractor and its desig11 firm then complete, the ob-
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jeetive of whieh is to retain the best features of the 

2 design-bid-build and design-build methods for the 

3 projeet U\Vlwr and eliminate those aspeets of eaeh 

4 such method that often eause problems for such 

5 owner. 

6 (3) DJ£SlGN-BlD-BUILD.-'l'he term "dcsign-bid7 build" means a method of project delivery in which 

8 a deo-;ign entity is first (~ontraeted to provide a dt~sign 

9 and a construction entity is subsequently contracted 

l 0 to build the awarded design coutraet. 

11 ( 4) DJ£SlGN-BUILD.-'l'hc term "design-build'' 

12 means a method of projeet delivery in whieh one ell13 tit.y, sueh ao-; the design-lmild team, ~works under a 

14 single contract ~vvith the project ovvner to provide de15 sign and (;onstrud.ion servi(~es. 

16 (5) :\ON-S'i'A __ '\fDAlW D1£SIG~.-The term "uon17 standard design" means a new diplomatic post de18 sign that docs not utilize a standardized design tem19 plate for the structural, spatial, and security require20 ments of such post. 

21 (6) ST~~'IDARD DESIGN.-The term "standard 

22 design" means a diplomatic post design that utilizes 

23 a standardized design template for the structural, 

24 spatial, and security requirements of such post. 

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AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE 

TO H.R. 4969 

OFFERED BY MR. MCCAUL OF TEXAS 

Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the 

follmving: 

1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the "Improving Embassy 

3 Design and Security Act of 2018". 

4 SEC. 2. STANDARD DESIGN IN CAPITAL CONSTRUCTION. 

5 (a) SEKSE OF CONGRESS.-It is the sense of Con6 gTess that the Department of State's Bureau of Overseas 

7 Building Operations (OBO) or successor office should give 

8 appropriate consideration to standard embassy design, in 

9 whieh eaeh new embassy and new (~onsulate starts with 

10 a standard design and keeps customization to a minimum. 

11 (h) CONSUT/1'!\TTON.-The Secretary of State shall, in 

12 consultation with the appropriate congressional commit13 tees, carry out any new embassy compound project or new 

14 eonsulate eompound prqjeet that is in the design phase 

15 or pre-design phase as of the date of the enactment of 

16 this Act and that utilizes a non-standard design. The Sec17 rctary shall provide such committees, for each such 

18 project, the follmving documentation: 
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( 1) A eomparison of the estimated full lifeeyde 

2 costs of the project at issue to the estimated full 

3 life(~yde eosts of sueh projeet if sueh projed were to 

4 use a standard embassy design. 

5 (2) A comparison of the estimated completion 

6 date of such prqjcct to the estimated completion 

7 date of such project if such project were to use a 

8 standard embassy design. 

9 ( 3) A comparison of the security of such com-

] 0 pleted project to the security of such completed 

11 project if such completed prqjcct were to usc a 

12 standard embassy design. 

13 ( 4) A justifieation for the Seeretary's seleetion 

14 of a non-standard design over a standard embassy 

15 design for sueh projeet. 

16 (5) A written explanation if auy of the docu17 mentation necessary to support the comparisons and 

18 justification, as the case may be, described in para19 graphs (1) through (4) cannot be provided. 

20 SEC. 3. CAPITAL CONSTRUCTION TRANSPARENCY. 

21 (a) IN GENERAL.-Section 118 of the Department of 

22 State Authorities Act, Fiscal Year 2017 (22 r.S.C. 304) 

23 is amcndcd24 ( 1) in the section heading, by striking "AN25 NUAL REPORT ON EMBASSY CONSTRUCTION 
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COSTS" and in~erting "QUARTERLY REPORT ON 

2 OVERSEAS CAPITAL CONSTRUCTION 

3 PROJECTS"; and 

4 (2) by amending subsectious (a) aud (b) to read 

5 as follows: 

6 "(a) lN GENERAL.-Not later thau 180 days after 

7 the elate of the enactment of this subsection and every 90 

8 days thereafter, the Seeretm7 shall ~uhmit to the appro9 pr-iate congressional committees a comprehensive report 

10 regarding all ongoing overseas capital construction 

11 prqjects and major embassy security upgrade prqjects. 

12 "(b) COKTENTS.-Rach report required under sub13 ~edion (a) ~hall indude the following with respeet to eaeh 

14 ongoing overseas capital construction project and major 

15 emba~sy ~eeurity upgnule projeet: 

16 " ( 1) The initial cost estimate as specified in the 

17 proposed allocation of capital construction and mainIS teuauce funds required by the Committees on Appro19 priations for Acts making appropr-iations for the De20 partment of State, foreign operations, and related 

21 programs. 

22 "(2) The current cost estimate. 

23 "(3) The value of each request for equitable ad24 justment received by the Department of State to 

25 elate. 
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" ( 4) The value of eaeh (~ertified claim re(~eived 

2 by the Department of State to date. 

3 " ( 5) The value of any usage of the prqj ed/ s 

4 conting·ency fund to date and the value of the re5 mainder of the project's contingency fund. 

6 "(6) ~\n euumerated list of each request for ad7 justment and certified claim that remains out8 standing or unresolved. 

9 "(7) An enumerated list of each request for eq1 0 uitable adjustment and certified claim that has been 

11 fully ac~judicated or that the Department has settled, 

12 and the final dollar amount of each adjudieation or 

13 settlement. 

14 " ( 8) The date of estimated completion specified 

15 111 the proposed allo(~ation of eapital eonstruetion 

16 and maintenauce funds required by the Committees 

17 on Appropriations not later than 45 days after the 

18 date of the enactment of an Act making appropria19 tions for the Department of State, foreign oper20 ations, and related programs. 

21 "(9) The current date of estimated comple22 tion.''. 

23 (b) INITIAL RJ£PORT.-The first report required 

24 under subsection (a) of section 118 of the Department of 

25 State Authorities Act, Fiscal Year 2017 (as amended by 
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this seetion) shall in(~lude an annex reg-arding all overseas 

2 capital construction projects and major embassy security 

3 upgrade prqjeets eornpleted during the 10-year period end4 mg on December 31, 2018, inc.luding·, for each such 

5 project, the elements specified in subsection (b) of such 

6 section 118 (as amended by this sectiou). 

7 SEC. 4. CONTRACTOR PERFORMANCE INFORMATION. 

8 (a) DEADLI~E FOR COlviPLETION.-The 8eereta17 of 

9 State shall complete by October 1, 2020, all contractor 

10 performance evaluations required by subpart 42.15 of the 

11 l<'ederal Acquisitiou Regulation. 

12 (b) PRTORTTT7,ATTO~ SYSTR:\f.-

13 (1) IN cmNERAL.-Not later than 90 days after 

14 the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 

15 of State shall develop a prioritization system for 

16 cleariug the current backlog of required evaluations 

17 referred to in subsection (a). 

18 (2) ELElVLKl'\'1'8.-The system required under 

19 paragraph (1) should prioritize such evaluations as 

20 follows: 

21 (A) Project completion evaluations should 

22 be prioritized over annual evaluations. 

23 (B) Evaluatious for relatively large con24 tracts should have priority. 
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(C) Evaluations that would he partienlarly 

2 informative for the awarding of government 

3 eontnwts shonM have priority. 

4 (c) BRIEJ<'ING.-Not later than 90 days after the date 

5 of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall 

6 brief the appropriate congressional committees on the De7 partment of State's plan for completing all evaluations by 

8 ()(~tober 1, 2020, and the prioritization system developed 

9 pursuant to this section. 

10 (d) SRNSR OF Comnmss.-Tt 1s the sense of Con11 gress that12 (1) contractors deciding whether to bid on De13 partment of State eontrads woulcl benefit from 

14 greater understanding of the Department as a client; 

15 and 

16 (2) the Department should develop a forum 

17 through which contractors can rate the DepartIS meut's prqject management performance. 

19 SEC. 5. GROWTH PROJECTIONS FOR NEW EMBASSIES AND 

20 CONSULATES. 

21 (a) IN GE~ERAL.-For each new embassy eompound 

22 project (='JEC) and new eonsulate compound project 

23 (NCC) in or not yet in the design phase as of the date 

24 of the enactment of this Act, the Office of Management 

25 Poliey, Rightsihing, and Innovation of the Department of 
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State ~hall pn(jed, gTmvth over the e~tirnate!l life of the 

2 facility at issue using all available and relevant data, in3 eluding the following: 

4 ( 1) Relevant historical trends for Departmeut 

5 personnel and personnel from other agencies rep6 resented at the .:.JEC or NCC that is to be con7 structed. 

8 ( 2) An analy~i~ of the tradeoff~ between risk 

9 and the needs of United States Government policy 

10 conducted as part of the most recent Vital Presence 

11 Validation Process, if applicable. 

12 (:3) Reasonable assumptions about the strategic 

13 importmwe of the NEC or NCC, a~ the (~a~e may be, 

14 over the life of the building at issue. 

15 ( 4) Any other data that would be helpful in pro16 jecting the future growth of .:.JEC or 1\CC. 

17 (b) OTHER AGEKCIES.-Each Federal agency rep18 rcseuted at an embassy or consulate shall provide to the 

19 Department of State, upon request, grmvth projections for 

20 the personnel of such agency over the estimated life of 

21 such embassy or consulate, as the case may be. 

22 (c) BASIS FOR ESTIJVL~TES.-The Department of 

23 State shall base growth assumption for all NECs aud 

24 NCCs on the estimates required under subsections (a) and 

25 (b). 
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(d) CONCJ.RESSIONAL NOTIFICATIOK.-Any (~ongres2 sional notification of site selection for a NEC or NCC sub3 mitted after the date of the emwtment of this Aet shall 

4 include the growth assumption used pursuant to sub5 section (c). 

6 SEC. 6. LONG-RANGE PLANNING PROCESS. 

7 (a) PLA.'JS REQUIRED.-

8 (1) IK cmNERAL.-Not later than 180 days 

9 after the date of the enactment of this Act and an-

] 0 nually thereafter for five years, the Secretary of 

11 State shall develop12 (A) a comprehensive six-year Long-Range 

13 Overseas Buildings Plan (LROBP) doeu14 menting the Department of State's overseas 

15 building prognun for the rephwement of over16 seas diplomatic facilities taking into account se17 curity factors under the Secure Embassy Con18 struction and Counterterrorism Act of 1999 

19 and other relevant statutes and regulations, as 

20 well as occupational safety and health factors 

21 pursuant to the Occupational Safety and 

22 Health Act of 1970 and other relevant statutes 

23 and regulations, including environmental factors 

24 such as indoor air quality that impact employee 

25 health and safety; and 
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(B) a (~omprehensive six-year plan <letailing 

2 the Department's long-term planning for the 

3 rnaintenmwe and sustainment of eompleted fa4 cilities, known as a Long-Range Overseas lVlain5 tenance Plan (TJROMP), whiell takes into ae6 count security factors under the Secure Em7 bassy Construetion and Counterterrorism Aet of 

8 1999 and other relevant statutes and regTlia9 tions, as well as oeeupational safety and health 

10 factors pursuant to the Oeeupational Safety 

11 aud Health Act of 1970 and other rclevaut 

12 statutes and regc1lations, ineluding env1ron13 mental factors snd1 as indoor air (pmlity that 

14 impaet employee health and safety. 

15 (2) I~ITIAL REPORT.-The first plan developed 

16 pursuaut to paragraph (1)(A) shall also inelude a 

17 one-time status report on existing small cliplomatie 

18 posts aud a strategy for establishiug a physieal dip19 lomatie presenee in eountries in whieh there is no 

20 eurrent physical diplomatie presence. Sudl report, 

21 whieh may inelude a elassified annex, shall inelude 

22 the following: 

23 (A) A description of the extent to which 

24 each small cliplomatie post furthers the national 

25 interest of the United States. 
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(B) A des(~ription of how eaeh small diplo2 matic post provides American Citizen Ser·vices, 

3 induding data on spe(~ifie servi(·es provided and 

4 the number of Americans receiviug services over 

5 the previous year. 

6 (C) A description of whether each small 

7 diplomatic post meets current security requireS rnents. 

9 (D) A description of the full financial cost 

10 of maintaining each small diplomatic post. 

11 (E) Input from the relevant chiefs of mis12 swn on any unique operational or policy value 

13 the small (liplomati(~ post provides. 

14 (3) UPDATED INFORJYL~TION.-The annual up15 dates of the plans developed pursuant to paragTaph 

16 ( 1) shall highlight any changes from the previous 

17 year's plan to the ordering of construction and 

18 maintenance prqjects. 

19 (b) REPORTING REQUREMENTS.-

20 (1) SunMTSSTON OF Ph\NS TO CONGI\.ESS.-Not 

21 later than 60 days after the completion of the 

22 LROBP and the LROMP, the Secretary of State 

23 shall submit such plaus to the appropriate congres24 sional committees. 
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(2) REFERE~CE I~ BTTDCtET .JUSTIFICATIO~ 

2 JVL~TERIALS.-In the budget justification materials 

3 submitted to the appropriate eongTessional eommit4 tees in support of the Department of State's budget 

5 for any fiscal year (as submitted \vith the budget of 

6 the President under scctiou 1105(a) of title 31, 

7 United States Code), the plans specified in the 

8 LROBP and LROMP shall be referenee!l to justify 

9 funding requested for building and maintenance 

1 0 projects overseas. 

11 (3) l<'ORJ\11 0!<' REPORT.-'l'hc plaus required to 

12 be submitted under paragraph (1) shall be submitted 

13 in undassified form but may indu!le (~lassified an14 nexes 

15 (e) SJVBLL DIPLOJVL~TIC POST DEFINED.-In this 

16 section, the term "small diplomatic post" means any con17 sulate that has employed five or fewer United States Gov18 crnmcnt employees on average over the 36 mouths before 

19 the date of the enactment of this Act. 

20 SEC. 7. VALUE ENGINEERING AND RISK ASSESSMENT. 

21 

22 

23 

24 

25 

ings: 

(a) FIKDINGS.-Congress makes the following find-

( 1) Federal departments aud agcnmcs arc required to use value engineering CVE) as a management tool, where appropriate, to reduce progTam and 
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e:wqui~ition eo~t~ pur~uant to OMB Cinmlar A-LH, 

2 Value Engineering, dated December 31, 201:3. 

3 (2) OBO ha~ a Poli(~y Diredive and Standard 

4 Operation Procedure, dated lVlay 24, 2017, 011 con5 ducting risk management studies on all international 

6 construction prqjects. 

7 (b) KOTIFICATION R.EQUIRE:\IENTS.-

8 ( 1) SUBl\IISSION TO AUTHORIZINCt COJYDHT9 TEES.-The proposed allocation of capital construe-

] 0 tion and maintenance funds that is required by the 

11 Committees 011 Appropriations of the House of Rep12 resentatives and the Senate not later than 45 days 

13 after the date of the emwtrnent of an Ad making 

14 appropriations for the Department of State, foreign 

15 operation~, and related prognun~ ~hall al~o he ~ub16 mitted to the appropriate co11gressional committees. 

17 (2) REQUIREMENT TO CO~FIRJVI COJVIPLETIO~ 

18 OF VALUJ:<; ENGINEERING ~q,_'\fD lUSK ASSESSNlE~'l' 

19 STUDIES.-The notifications required under para20 graph (1) shall include confirmation that the De21 partment of State has completed the requisite \7E 

22 and risk management studies described in subsection 

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(e) REPORT!~(} AND BRIEFING REQUIREME~TS.-

2 The Secretary of State shall provide to the appropriate 

3 eongressional (~ornrnittees upon request4 ( 1) a description of each recommendation from 

5 each study described in subsection (a) and a table 

6 detailing which recommendations were accepted and 

7 which were rejected; and 

8 ( 2) a report or briefing cletailing the rationale 

9 for not implementing recommendations made by \7E 

10 studies that may yield significant cost sa,~ngs to the 

11 Department of State, if implemented. 

12 SEC. 8. BUSINESS VOLUME. 

13 Subparagn1ph (E) of seetion 402(e)(2) of the Ornni14 bus Diplomatic Security and A.ntiterrorism Act of 1986 

15 (22 U.S.C. 4R52(e)(2)) is amendecl by striking ''in :1 

16 years" and inserting "cumulatively over 3 years". 

17 SEC. 9. EMBASSY SECURITY REQUESTS AND DEFICIENCIES. 

18 The Secretary of State shall provide to the appro19 pr-:iate congressional committees, upon request, informa20 tion on security deficiencies at rnited States diplomatic 

21 posts, inc.lucling22 ( 1) requests made over the previous year by 

23 United States diplomatic posts for security up24 grades; and 
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(2) signifieant seeurity !lefi(~ieneies at 1~nited 

2 States diplomatic posts that are not operating out of 

3 a new embassy (~ompound or new eonsulate (~om4 pound. 

5 SEC. 10. OVERSEAS SECURITY BRIEFINGS. 

6 Not later than 90 days after the date of the enact7 ment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall revise the 

8 ForeigTl Mfairs Manual to stipulate that the Bureau of 

9 Diplomatic Security of the Department of Sate shall pro-

] 0 '~de a security briefing or \vritten materials "~th up-toll date infonnation ou the current threat environment iu 

12 writing or orally to all United States Government employ13 ees traveling to a foreign eountry on offi(·ial business. To 

14 the e:xi:ent practicable, such briefing or written materials 

15 shall be provided to traveling Department employees via 

16 tcleconfereuce prior to their arrival at a post. 

17 SEC. 11. CONTRACTING METHODS IN CAPITAL CONSTRUC· 

18 TION. 

19 (a) DELIVERY.-Except m cases in which the Sec20 retary of State determines that such would not be appro21 pr-iate, the Secretary shall make use of the design-build 

22 project delivery system at diplomatic posts that have not 

23 yet received design or capital coustruction contracts as of 

24 the date of the enactment of this Act. 
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(h) NOTIFICATIOK.-Kot later than 15 days after 

2 any determination to make use of a delivery system other 

3 than design-build in <:W(~ordam~e with suhsedion (a), the 

4 Secretary of State shall notify the appropriate eorlgres5 sional committees in vvriting of such determination, includ6 ing the reasons therefor. 

7 (c) PERFORMANCE EVALl~ATION.-Not later than 

8 1RO days after the date of the emwtment of this Ad, the 

9 Secretary shall report to the appropriate congressional 

10 committees regarding perform a nee evaluation measures in 

11 line with GAO's "Standards for Internal Control in the 

12 Federal Government" that will be applicable to design and 

13 eonstrudion, lifeeyde (~ost, and building maintenanee pro14 grams of the Bureau of Overseas Building Operations of 

15 the Department of State. 

16 SEC. 12. DEFINITIONS. 

17 In this Act: 

18 ( 1) "APPROPRIATE CO~GRESSlONAL COlVL\11'1'-

19 TEES.-The term "appropriate congressional com20 mittees" means the appropriate eongressional com21 mittees. 

22 (1) DESIGN-BUILD.-The term "design-build" 

23 means a method of project delivery in which one en24 tity works under a single contract with the Depart-
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ment of State to provide desigTl and eonstruetion 

2 services. 

3 (2) ::\ON-ST~'L.'JDARD DESIC+~.-The term "non4 standard desig·n'' means5 (A) a design for a new embassy compound 

6 prqject or new consulate compound prqject that 

7 does not utilize a standardized embassy design 

8 for the stnwtural, spatial, or seeurity require9 ments of such embassy compound or consulate 

10 compound, as the case may be; or 

11 (B) a new embassy compound project; or 

12 new consulate compound project that does not 

13 utilize a design-build delivery method. 

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AMENDMENT TO THE AMENDMENT IN THE 

NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE TO H.R. 4969 

OFFERED BY Ms. TITUS OF NEVADA 

Insert after scctiou 2 the following: 

1 SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 

2 It is the policy of the United States that the Bureau 

3 of Overseas Buildiug Operations of the Department of 

4 State or its successor office shall continue to balance 

5 functionality and security "~th accessibility as defined by 

6 guidelines established by the rnited States Access Board 

7 in constructing embassies and consulates and shall ensure 

8 compliance ~with the Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 

9 to the fullest extent possible. 

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lHiTH CONGRESS 

2D SH:SSIOt\ H. R. 5576 

To a<ldre~s state-spom:ored <oyber :wtiviti!'s against the Unite<! States, and 

for other pttrposes. 

H\ 'l'HE HOUSE OP REPHESE~'l'A'l'lVES 

APRTL 18. 2018 

:\Ir. YOHO (for himself, :Mr. ROYCE of California, lVIr. EKGEL, :\Ir. SHEK\'L'L'I, 

Mr. IJ."-'101']\71N, l\1r. CHAB01', Mr. I'OE of Texas, Mr. I<'T1'?;PATRTCK, Mr. 

lVIEADOWS, and :Mr. CASTRO of Texa,;J introdu<oed the following bill; 

which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition 

to the Committees on Financial Senices, Ov-ersight and Government Reform, and tlw .Judi~iary, for a period to be subsrqm•ntly cktrrmincd by 

Uw SpPaker, in e:wh <·.ase for eonsideration of sud1 provision~ as fall vvithin the jnrisdid.ion \\f the <·ouunitr.ee <oone!'rned 

A BILL 

To aa!lre~~ ~t.ate-~pon~ored eyber <:wtiv:itie;, again~t the 

United States, and for other puq)oses. 

1 Be d enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tiues of the Unded States of .Lhrwriea in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 'T'his Act may he cited as the "Cyber Deterrence and 

5 Response Act of 2018". 

6 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

7 Congre~s find~ the following: 
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(1) On February 18, 2018, the Diredor of Na2 tional Intelligence stated in his testimony before the 

3 Senate Seleet Comrnittee on Intelligenee that "Rus4 sia, China, Iran, and North Korea will pose the 

5 greatest cyber threats to the rnited States during 

6 the next year" through the use of cybcr operations 

7 as low-cost tools of statecraft, and assessed that 

8 these states ~would "work to use (;yber operations to 

9 achieve strategic objectives unless they face clear rel 0 percussions for their cyber operations". 

11 (2) The 2017 Worldwide Threat Assessment of 

12 the United States Intelligence Community stated 

13 that "The potential for surprise in the (~yber realm 

14 \Vill increase in the ne:x-t year and beyond as billions 

15 more digital devi(~es are (~onneett~d-with relatively 

16 little built-in security-and both nation states aud 

17 malign actors become more emboldened and better 

18 equipped in the usc of increasingly widespread cybcr 

19 toolkits. The risk is grcryving that some adversaries 

20 ·will conduct cyber attacks-such as data deletion or 

21 localized and temporary disruptions of critical infra22 structure-against the United States in a crisis 

23 short of war.". 

24 (3) On :\!larch 29, 2017, President Donald .J. 

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2 "Significant malicious cyber-enabled activities origi3 nating from, or directed hy pen.:;ons loeated, in whole 

4 or in substantial part, outside the LT nited States, 

5 continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary 

6 threat to the national security, foreigu policy, and 

7 economy of the United States.''. 

8 ( 4) On ,T anuary 5, 2 017, former Dire(~tor of 

9 National Intelligence, James Clapper, former Under10 secretary of Defense for Tntelligenee, Yfarcel TJettre, 

11 and the Commander of the U nitcd States Cyber 

12 Command, Admiral Michael Rogers, submitted joint 

13 testimony to the Committee on Armed Serviees of 

14 the Senate that stated "As of late 2016 more than 

15 :10 nations are developing offensive <:yher athwk ca16 pabilitics" and that "Protecting critical infrastruc17 ture, sueh as crueial energy, finaneial, manufac18 turiug, transportation, communicatiou, and health 

19 systems, \vill become an inereasingly complex na20 tiona] seeurity challenge.". 

21 ( 5) There is signifieant evidence that hackers 

22 affiliated I'Vrith foreign governments have conducted 

23 eyber operations targetiug eompanies allCl critieal in24 frastructure sectors in the United States as the De25 partment of ,Justice has announeed that-
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(A) on Mareh 24, 2016, seven Iranians 

working for Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corpsaffiliated entities were imlieted for eondm~ting 

distributed denial of service attacks ag·ainst the 

financial sector in the United States from 2012 

to 2013; and 

(B) on May 19, 2014, five Chinese military 

ha(•kers were dwrge!l for haeking 1~nited States 

companies in the nuclear power, metals, and 

solar products industries, and engaging in economw espwnage. 

(G) In 1/fay 2017, North Korea released 

13 "\Vamu1Cry'' pseudo-ransornware. whieh posed a sig·-

14 nificant risk to the economy, national security, and 

15 the eitizens of the rnited States and the vmrld, as 

16 it resulted in the iufection of over 300,000 computer 

17 systems in more than 150 countries, including in the 

18 healthcare sector of the United Kiugdom, dem19 onstrating the global reach and cost of cyber-enabled 

20 malicious activity. 

21 (7) In June 2017, Russia carried out the most 

22 destructive cyber-enabled operation in history, re23 leasing the NotPetya malware that caused billions of 

24 dollars' worth of damage within Ukraine and across 

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1 SEC. 3. ACTIONS TO ADDRESS STATE-SPONSORED CYBER 

2 ACTIVITIES AGAINST THE UNITED STATES. 

3 (a) DESIGNATIO~ AS A CRITICAL CYBl!:R 'l'Hl:U:;;A'r.-

4 (1) T~ GF:NER.Ah-The President, acting 

5 through the Secretary of State, shall designate as a 

6 critical cyber threat7 (A) eaeh foreigTl person and eaeh ageney 

8 or instrumentality of a foreign state that the 

9 President determines to be responsible for or 

10 complicit in, or have engaged iu, directly or in11 directly, state-sponsored cyber activities that 

12 are reasonably likely to result in, or have con13 tributed to, a significant threat to the national 

14 security, foreign policy, or economic health or 

15 financial stability of the rnited States and that 

16 have the puq)ose or effect of17 (i) (~e:msing a signifi(~ant (lisruption to 

18 the availability of a computer or network 

19 of computers; 

20 (ii) harming, or otherwise significantly 

21 compromising the prnv:ision of service by, a 

22 (~omputer or network of eornputers that 

23 support one or more entities in a critical 

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provision of services by one or more entities in a (~riti(:al infrastrudnre seetor; 

( iv) causing a significant rmsappropriation of funds or economic resources, 

trade secrets, personal identifiers, or financial information for commercial or competitive a!lvantage or private finmwial gain; 

(v) destabilizing the financial sector of 

the United States by tampering with, altermg, or causing a misappropriation of data; 

or 

(vi) interft~ring •vith or undermining 

election processes or institutions by tampering vvitlt, altering, or eausmg rrnsappropriation of data; 

(B) each foreign person that the President 

has determined to have knowingly materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financiaL material, or technological support for, or goods or 

servwes to or in support of, any activities described in subparagraph (A) by a foreign person 

or ageney or instrumentality of a foreign state 

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(C) eaeh ageney or instrumentality of a 

2 foreign state that the President has determined 

3 to have materially assisted, sponsored, or pro4 vided fiuancial, material, or tedmological sup5 port for, or goods or services to or in support 

6 of, any activities described in subparagraph (A) 

7 by a foreign person or agency or instrumen8 tality of a foreign state aesignated as a eritieal 

9 cyber threat under subparagraph (A); 

l 0 (D) each foreign person that the President 

11 has determined to have attempted to engage iu 

12 any of the activities described in subparagraph 

13 (A) or (B); or 

14 (E) each agency or instrumentality of a 

15 foreign state that the Presiaent has aetermined 

16 to have attempted to engage iu any of the ac17 tivities described in subparagraph (A) or (C). 

18 (2) PUBLlCA'l'lOJ\ lN 1-'EDERAL REGlSTEtt.-The 

19 President shall20 (A) publish m the Federal Register a list 

21 of each foreign person and each agency or in22 strumentality of a foreign state designated as a 

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(B) regularly update ~ueh li~t not later 

2 than seven days after making any changes to 

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4 (b) KON-'l'RAVBL-RELA'l'BD SA_'\ICTlONS.-

5 (1) lt\ C+ENRTIJ\h-The President shall impose 

6 one or more of the applicable sanctions described in 

7 paragraph (2) with respect to each foreign person 

8 and eaeh agen(~y or in~trumentality of a foreign 

9 state designated as a critical eyber threat under sub10 section (a). 

11 (2) SA "''CTlONS .. DESCRlBED.-'l'he sanctions de12 scribed in this paragraph are the follovving: 

13 (A) The President may provide for the 

14 withdrawaL limitation, or suspension of non-lm15 manitarian Unitea State~ aevelopnwnt as~i~t16 auce uuder chapter 1 of part 1 of the J:!'oreign 

17 Assistance Act of 1961. 

18 (B) The President may provide for the 

19 withdrawal, limitation, or suspension of rnited 

20 States security assistance under part IT of the 

21 Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. 

22 (C) The President may direct the r nited 

23 States executive director to each international 

24 financial institution to use the voice and vote of 

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benefit the designated foreign person or the 

designated ageney or im;trnmentality of a foreign state. 

(D) The President may dirert the ExportImport Bank of the United States, the Overseas 

Private Investment Corporation, or any other 

U nitea States Government HfZelwy not to approve the issuance of any (or a sperified number of) g11arantees, insnranee, extensions of 

credit. or participations in the extension of 

erec1it. 

(E) The Presillent may, pursuant to sueh 

reg11lations or guidelines as the President may 

preseribe, prohibit any United States person 

from investing in or purehasing significaut 

amounts of equity or debt instruments of the 

designated foreign person or the designated 

ageney or instrumentality of a foreign state. 

(F) The President may, pursuant to such 

regulations or guidelines as the President may 

preseribe, prohibit any rnited States agency or 

instrumcutality from proeuring, or enteriag iuto 

any eontraet for the proeurement of, any goods, 

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(G) The President may order the heads of 

the appropriate rnited States agencies to not 

issue auy (or a specified number of) specific licenses, and to not grant any other specific authority (or a speeified number of authorities), to 

eA.l)Ort any goods or technology to the designated foreign person or the designated ageney 

or instrumentality of a foreigu state uudcr-

(i) the ]}xl)Ort Administration Act of 

Hl79 eontinuell in effeet pursuant the 

International Emergency Economic Po\vers 

Aet); 

(ii) the Arms JDxport Control Act; 

(iii) the Atomic Energy Act of 1954; 

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(iv) any other statute that requires 

the prior re\~ew and approval of the 

rnited States Government as a condition 

for the export or re-e2q)ort of goods or 

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(50 CS.C. 1701 et seq.) (except that the requirements of sedion 202 of srwh Aet (50 

U.S.C. 1701) shall not apply) to the extent necessary to block and prohibit all transactions in 

property and interests in property of the designated foreign person if such property and interests in property are in the United States, 

come vFithin the United States, or are or come 

within the possession or control of a rnited 

States person. 

(ii) The penalties prm~ded for in subseetions (h) and ((~) of seetion 206 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 

U.S.C. 1705) shall apply to a pen.;on that v'iolates, attempts to violate, conspires to violate, 

or causes a v-iolation of regulations prescribed 

under clause (i) to the same extent that such 

penalties apply to a person that commits an unlawful act described in subsection (a) of such 

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through, or to any finaneial institution, to the 

2 extent that such transfers or pa:yments are sub3 jeet to the juriN(lietion of the United States and 

4 involve any iuterest of the designated foreigu 

5 person. 

6 (e) TRAVB;L-HELA'TED SANCTIONS.-

7 (1) ALIE~S INEHGIBLE FOR "VISAS, AD:\IISSIO~, 

8 OR PAROLE.-An alien who is aesignatt~d as a crit9 ical eyber threat under subsection (a) isl 0 (A) inadmissible to the United States; 

11 (B) ineligible to receive a visa or other doe12 umentation to enter the rnited States; and 

13 (C) othervvise ineligible to he admitted or 

14 paroled into the United States or to receive any 

15 other lwnefit under the Immigration aml N a16 tionality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.). 

17 (2) CURRENT "VISAS REVOKED.-The issuing 

18 consular officer, the Secretary of State, or the Sec19 retary of Homeland Security (or a designee of either 

20 such Secretaries) shall revoke any visa or other 

21 entry documentation issued to the foreign person 

22 designated as a critical cyber threat under sub23 section (a) regardless of when issued. A revoeatiou 

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entry do(mrnentation that 1s m the possessiOn of 

2 such foreign person. 

3 (d) ADDITIONAL S.:L'\CTIOKS WITH RESPECT TO 

4 l<'OHJ!]lQN S'l'A'l'BS.-

5 (1) TN <JENRRAh-The President may impose 

6 any of the sanctions described in paragraph (2) with 

7 respect to the government of each foreign state that 

8 the President has lletermined ai!led, abetted, or di9 rected a foreign person or agency or instrumentality 

l 0 of a foreign state desigm1.ted as a critical cyber 

11 threat under subsection (a). 

12 (2) SANCTIONS DRSCRTRRD.-The sanctions re13 felTed to in paragn1.ph (1) are the following: 

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(B) The President may provide for the 

withdrawal, limitation, or suspension of rnited 

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Foreign Assistaucc Act of 1961. 

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the government of the foreign state. 

(D) Ko item on the rnited States Munitions List (established pursuaut to section 38 of 

the Arms E:A1JOrt Control Act (22 U.S.C. 

2 77R)) or the Comrneree Control List set forth 

in Supplement No. 1 to part 774 of title 15, 

Code of Federal Regulations, may be exported 

to the govermnent of the foreign state. 

(E) The President may, pursuant to such 

regulations as the President may preserihe, prohibit any transaetions in foreign exchange that 

are subjeet to the jnrisdietion of the rnited 

States and in which the govennnent of the foreign state has any interest. 

(1<') The President may, pursuant to such 

regulations as the President may prescribe, prohibit any transfers of credit or pa:vments between one or more financial institutions or by, 

through, or to any financial institution, to the 

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involve any interest of the government of the 

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3 (e) EXEMPTIONS, WAIVERS, Al'JD REMOVALS OF 

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(A) lVlAt'\DA'l'OJW KXElVlP'l'lONS.-'l'hc follovv:ing acti>.rities shall be exempt from sanctions 

under :mh::-W(~tions (h), ((~), and (d): 

(i) Activities subject to the reporting 

requirements of title V of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 413 et seq.), 

or to any authori:T.ed intelligence activities 

of the United States. 

( ii) Any transaction necessary to cmnply with United States obligations under 

the Agreement between the U uitcd Nations 

and the rnitecl States of America regarding the Headquarters of the United Nations, signed June 26, 19ib7, and entered 

into force on November 21, 1947, or under 

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(2) vVAII7ER.-The President may wmve, on a 

2 case-by-case basis, the imposition of sanctions for a 

3 period of not more than one year, aml may renew 

4 that waiver for additional periods of not more thau 

5 one year, any sanction or penalty under this seetion 

6 if the President submits to the appropriate congres7 sional committees a written determination that the 

8 wmver meets one or more of the following require9 ments: 

l 0 (A) The warver 1s important to the eco11 nom1c or national security interests of the 

12 United States. 

13 (B) The ,waiver will further the enfon~e14 ment of this Act or is for an important law en15 foreernent purpose. 

16 (C) 'l'hc waiver is for an important human17 itarian purpose. 

18 (3) lll£1VlOVALS OP SANCTIONS fu'\!D DESlGNA19 TIONS.-The President may prescribe rules and reg20 ulations for the removal of sanctions under suh21 sections (b), and (d) and the removal of designa22 tions under subsection (a) if the President deter23 mines that a foreigu pcrsou, agency or iustrumcn24 tality of a foreign state, or gov-ernment of a foreign 

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has verifiahly (;eased its partieipation in any of the 

2 conduct with respect to which the foreign person, 

3 ageney or instrumentality of a foreign state, or gov4 ermnent of a foreign state, as the case may be, was 

5 subject to sanctions under this section and has given 

6 assurances that it will uo lon12·cr participate iu such 

7 conduct. 

8 (4) EXCEPTION TO CO:.\LPLY VliTH r~HTED NA9 TIONS HEADQLiliTEBS AGREEMEKT.-Sanctions 

l 0 under su hsection (c) shall not apply to a foreign perIl sou if admitting the forcigu person into the C nitcd 

12 States is necessary to permit tlw United States to 

13 eomply v;,ith the Agreement regarding the Head14 quarters of the United ~ations, signed at Lake Suc15 eess ,June 26, 1047, and enterea into fon;e ~overn16 ber 21, 1947, between the Uuitcd .:\atious and the 

17 United States, or other applieable international obli18 gations. 

19 (f) BRIEFI~G TO CONGBESS.-

20 (1) TK GENER.Ah-Not later than 180 days 

21 after the date of the enaetment of this seetion, and 

22 periodically thereafter, the President shall provide to 

23 the appropriate congressional committees a briefing 

24 on state-sponsored cyber activities against the 

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(2) l\!L~TTER8 TO BE INCLHDED.-The briefing 

2 required by paragraph (1) shall, include the fol3 lmving, to the e:A·tent the information is available: 

4 (A) A list of foreign states that eontiuue to 

5 aid, abet, or direct any foreign person or agency 

6 or instrumcutality of a foreign state to carry 

7 out state-sponsored cyber activities against the 

8 U nitell States, im~luding--

9 (i) a list of entities 'Within the rnited 

10 States criticAl infrastructure that are bell lieved to have been, or arc currently still, 

12 suqjec.t to state-sponsored cyber activities 

13 by eaeh sueh foreigTl state; and 

14 (ii) a list of such foreign persons and 

15 ageneies and instrumentalities of foreign 

16 states that the President has reason to be17 lieve are engaging, or have engaged in, 

18 state-sponsored cyber aetivitics against the 

19 rnited States but are not currently des20 ignated under subsection (b). 

21 (B) A list of the foreign persons and agen22 mes and instrumentalities of foreign states vv:ith 

23 respect to which the imposition of sanctions 

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(C) A summary of any efforts made by the 

2 Government of the United States to resolve and 

3 hring an immediate end to state-sponsored 

4 cyber activities ag·ainst the United States that 

5 could result in the designation as a critical 

6 eyber threat under subseetiou (a). 

7 (g) DEFINITIONS.-In this section: 

8 (1) ADMITTED; ALIEN.-The terms "admitted" 

9 and "alien" have the meanings given such terms in 

10 section 101 of the TmmigTation and Nationality Act 

11 (8 U.S.C. 1101). 

12 (2) APPROPRIATE CO:-JGRRSSTONAT, COM:\HT13 TEE::t-The term "appropriate eongressional eorn14 mittees'' means15 (A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 

16 Committee on J1'inaucial Services, the Com17 mittee on the ,Judicimy, the Committee on 

18 Oversight aud Govermnent Refonn, aud the 

19 Committee on Homeland Security of the House 

20 of Representatives: and 

21 (B) the Committee on Foreign Relations, 

22 the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 

23 Urban _:\ffairs, the Committee on the Judieiary, 

24 and the Committee on Homeland Security and 

25 Governmental Affairs of the Senate. 
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( :1) Acm~CY OR INSTRUMENTALITY OF A FOR2 EIGK STATE.-The term "agency or instrumentality 

3 of a foreign state" has the meaning given mwh tt~rm 

4 m seetion 1603(b) of title 28, United States Code. 

5 ( 4) CRTTJCAT, T~F'RASTRUCTURE SRCTOR.-The 

6 term "eritieal infrastrueturc scetor" means any of 

7 the designated critical infrastrueture sectors identi8 fied in the Presidential Poliey Directive entitled 

9 "Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilienee", 

l 0 numbered 21, and dater] Febmary 12, 201:3. 

11 ( 5) FOl\.ElGN PERSON .-The term "foreign pcr12 son" means13 (A) an individual who is not a 1~nited 

14 States citizen or an alien lavvfully admitted for 

15 permanent residenee to the United States; or 

16 (B) an entity that is not a U uitcd States 

17 person. 

18 (G) 14'0RElG~ S'l'ATE.-The term "foreign state" 

19 has the meaning given sueh term in section 160:3(a) 

20 of title 28, United States Code. 

21 (7) IC~OWINGLY.-The term "knovv:ingly", with 

22 respect to eonduct, a circumstance, or a result, 

23 means that a person has aetual knowledge, or should 

24 have knmvn, of the conduct, the circumstance, or the 

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(R) MISArPBOPRIATION.-The term "rnisappro2 priation" means taking or obtaining by improper 

3 means, 1v:ithout permission or ('Onsent, or umler false 

4 pretenses. 

5 (9) STATF::-SPONSORFJD CYDF:R ACTTVTTTRS.-

6 The term "state-sponsored cyber activities" means 

7 any cyher-enabled activities that8 (A) are (~arried out by an agem\v or instnl9 mentality of a foreign state; or 

l 0 (B) are carried out by a foreign person 

11 that is aided, abetted, or directed by a foreigu 

12 state or an agency or instrumentality of a for13 eign state. 

14 (10) UNITED STATES PEBSON.-The term 

15 "United States person" rneans16 (A) a United States citizeu or an alien law17 fully admitted for permanent residence to the 

18 United States; or 

19 (B) an entity organized under the lavvs of 

20 the United States or of any jurisdiction ''vithin 

21 the United States, including a foreign branch of 

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AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE 

TO H.R. 5576 

OFFERED BY MR. YOHO OF FLORIDA 

Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the 

follmving: 

1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the "Cybcr Deterrence aud 

3 Response Act of 2018". 

4 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

5 Congress finds the following: 

6 (1) On February 13, 2018, the Director of Na7 tional Intelligence stated in his testimony before the 

8 Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that "Rus9 sia, China, Iran, and North Korea will pose the 

10 greatest cyber threats to the C nitecl States during 

11 the next year" through the use of cyber operations 

12 as low-cost tools of statecraft, and assessed that 

13 these states would "work to use c:y~)er operations to 

14 a(~hieve strategie obje(~tives unless they fa(~e dear re15 percussions for their cyber operations". 

16 (2) The 2017 Worldv.~de Threat Assessment of 

17 the U nitcd States Intelligence Community stated 

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>vill inerease in the ne~i: year and beyoml as billions 

2 more digital devices are connected-with relatively 

3 little built-in seeurity-and both nation states and 

4 malign actors become more emboldened and better 

5 equipped in the use of increasingly widespread cyber 

6 toolkits. The risk is growiug that some adversaries 

7 will conduct cyber attacks-such as data deletion or 

8 loealized and temporary disruptions of eriti(~al infra9 structure-against the United States in a crisis 

10 short of war.". 

11 (3) Ou Slarch 29, 2017, Presideut Donald J. 

12 Trump deemed it necessary to continue the national 

13 emergeney dedared in Exe(mtive Onler 18694 as 

14 "Signifieant malieious eyber-enabled aetivities origi15 nating from, or direeted hy persons loeated, in whole 

16 or iu substantial part, outside the United States, 

17 continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary 

18 threat to the natioual seeurity, foreigu policy, aud 

19 eeonomy of the United States.". 

20 (4) On ,January 5, 2017, former Director of 

21 National Intelligenee, James Clapper, former Under22 secretary of Defense for Intelligenee, Yiarcel Leth·e, 

23 aud the Commander of the United States Cyber 

24 Command, Admiral Michael Rogers, submitted joint 

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the Senate that stated "As of late 2016 more than 

2 30 nations are developing offensive cyber attack ca3 pabilities" and that "Prote(~ting (~riti(~al infrastnw4 ture, such as crucial energy, financial, manufac5 turing, transportation, communication, and health 

6 systems, will become an increasingly complex na7 tional security challenge.". 

8 ( 5) There is signifieant evidem:e that haekers 

9 affiliated with foreign governments have conducted 

10 cyber operations targeting companies and critical in11 frastructure sectors in the United States as the De12 partment of ,Justice has announced that13 (A) on Mareh 24, 2016, seven Iranians 

14 working for Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps15 affiliatecl entities were imlieted for eon(hwting 

16 distributed denial of service attacks against the 

17 financial sector in the United States from 2012 

18 to 2013; and 

19 (B) on May 19, 2014, five Chinese military 

20 hackers were charged for hacking rnited States 

21 companies in the nuclear power, metals, and 

22 solar products industries, and engaging in eco23 nOllllC espiOnage. 

24 (6) In :VIay 2017, North Korea released 

25 "\VannaCry" pseudo-ransomware, which posed a sig-
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nifieant ri~k to the eeonorny, national ~eeurity, and 

2 the citizens of the rnited States and the world, as 

3 it re~ulted in the infe(~tion of over :100,000 (~omputer 

4 systems in more than 150 countries, including in the 

5 healthcare sector of the United Kingdom, dem6 onstrating the global reach and cost of cyber-enablcd 

7 malicious activity. 

8 (7) In .Tune 2017, Ru~~ia earried out the mo~t 

9 destructive cyber-enabled operation in history, re10 leasing the NotPetya malware that caused billions of 

11 dollars' worth of damage within Ukraine and across 

12 Europe, Asia, and the Americas. 

13 (R) In May 2018, the Department of State, 

14 pursuant to section :3(b) of Executive Order 1:3800, 

15 prepared reeommendation~ to the Pre~ident on De16 terring Adversaries and Better Protecting the Amer17 ican People From Cyber Threats, which stated 

18 "With respect to activities below the threshold of the 

19 use of force, the rnited States should, working with 

20 likeminded partners when possible, adopt an ap21 proach of imposing sw~ft, costly, and transparent 

22 consequences on foreign governments responsible for 

23 significant malicious cyber activities aimed at harm24 ing U.S. national interests.". 
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1 SEC. 3. ACTIONS TO ADDRESS STATE-SPONSORED CYBER 

2 ACTIVITIES AGAINST THE UNITED STATES. 

3 (a) DESIGNATION AS A CRITICAL CYBER THREAT 

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5 (1) l~ GENERAL.-'l'he Presideut, acting 

6 through the Secretary of State, and in coordination 

7 >vith other relevant Federal ageney heads, shall des8 ignate as a critical cyber threat actor9 (A) each foreign person and each agency 

10 or instrumentality of a foreign state that the 

11 President determines to be knowingly respon12 sible for or complicit in, or have engaged in, di13 rectly or indirectly, state-sponsored cyber activi14 ties that are reasonably likely to result in, or 

15 have coutributed to, a siguificant threat to the 

16 national security, foreign policy, or economic 

17 health or finaneial stability of the 1~nited States 

18 and that have the purpose or effect of19 (i) causing a significant disruption to 

20 the availability of a computer or uetwork 

21 of computers; 

22 (ii) harming, or othenvise signifieantly 

23 compromising the provision of service by, a 

24 computer or network of computers that 

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(iv) causing a significant rmsappropriation of funds or economic resources, 

trade secrets, personal identifiers, or financial information for commercial or competitive a<lvantage or private finarwial gain; 

( v) destabilizing the financial sector of 

the United States by tampering with, altermg, or causing a misappropriation of data; 

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(vi) interfering >vith or undermining 

election processes or institutions by tampering \vith, altering, or eausmg rrnsappropriation of data; 

(B) each foreign person that the President 

has determined to have knowing-ly, significantly, 

and materially assisted, sponsored, or provided 

financial, material, or technological support for, 

or goods or services to or in support of, any activities described in subparagraph (A) by a forergn person or agency or instrumentality of a 

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to have signifi(~antly and materially assistecl, 

sponsored, or provided finaucial, material, or 

teehnologieal support for, or goods or senrices 

to or in support of, auy activities described iu 

subparagraph (A) by a foreign person or ageney 

or instrumentality of a foreign state designated 

as a eritieal eyber threat aetor under subparagraph (A). 

(2) PCBLICA'l'ION 11'\ l<'EDERAL REGIS'l'ER.-

(A) T~ GRKER.Ah-The President shall-

(i) publish in the Federal Register a 

list of eaeh foreign person and eaeh ageney 

or instrumentality of a foreign state designated as a eritical cyber threat actor 

under this subsection; and 

(ii) regularly update such list uot later 

than seven days after making any changes 

to sueh list, and publish in the Federal 

Register such updates. 

(B) EXCEPTION.-

(i) lK GENERAL.-The President may 

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tifi(~ation of any foreign person or ageney 

2 or instrumentality of a foreign state des3 ignate<l as a eritim1l eyber threat ador 

4 under this subsection if the President de5 termines that withholding sueh identifiea6 tion7 (I) is important to the national 

8 seeurity interests of the 1~nite<l 

9 States; or 

10 (IT) is for an important law en11 forcement purpose. 

12 (ii) TRANSMTSSTOK.-Tf the President 

13 exereises the authority under this subpara14 graph to withhold from publication in the 

15 Federal Register the identifieation of a for16 eign person or agency or instrumentality of 

17 a foreign state designated as a critieal 

18 cyber threat actor under this subsection, 

19 the President shall transmit to the appro20 priate congressional committees m classi21 fied form a report containing any such 

22 identification, together with the reasons for 

23 such exercise. 

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(1) lK cmNERAL.-The Pre~ident shall impose 

2 one or more of the applicable sanctions described in 

3 paragraph (2) with re~ped to eaeh foreign per~on 

4 and each agency or instrumentality of a foreign 

5 state designated as a critical cyber threat actor 

6 under subsection (a). 

7 (2) S~~'JCTIONS DESCRIBED.-The sanctions de8 ~(~rihed in this paragraph are the following: 

9 (A) The President may provide for the 

10 withdrawal, limitation, or suspension of non-hull manitarian United States development assist12 ance under chapter 1 of part I of the Foreign 

13 A~~i~tam~e A(~t of 1961. 

14 (B) The President may provide for the 

15 withclrawal, limitation, or ~u~pen~ion of 1~nited 

16 States security assistance under part ll of the 

17 Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. 

18 (C) The President may direct the Cnitcd 

19 States executive director to each international 

20 financial institution to use the voice and vote of 

21 the United States to oppose any loan from the 

22 international financial institution that would 

23 benefit the designated foreign person or the 

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credit, or participatious iu the extensiou of 

ereclit. 

(E) The Pre~i!lent may, pur~uant to sueh 

regulations or guidelines as the President may 

preseribe, prohibit any United States person 

from investing in or purchasing siguifieaut 

amounts of equity or debt instruments of the 

de~ignated f<lreigTl per~<m. 

(F) The President may, pursuant to such 

regulations or guideline~ a~ the Pre~i!lent may 

prescribe, prohibit any C nited States ageney or 

instrumentality from procuring, or entering into 

auy eontraet for the procurement of, any goods, 

teehnology, or services, or elasses of goods, 

teehnology, or sen~ees, from the designated foreign person or the designated ageney or instrumentality of a foreign state. 

(G) The President may order the heads of 

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e},.llort any goods or te(~hnology to the desigmtted foreigu person or the desiguated ageucy 

or instrumentality of a foreign state under-

(i) the Export Administration Act of 

1979 (as continued in effect pursuant the 

International Ernergem~y Eeonomi(~ Powers 

Act); 

(ii) the Arms ExlXJrt Control Act; 

(iii) the Atomic Energy Act of 1954; 

or 

(iv) any other statute that reqmres 

the prior review and approval of the 

1~nited States Government as a eondition 

for the export or re-export of goods or 

sen'lces. 

(H)(i) The President may exerCise all of 

the powers granted to the President under the 

International Emergency Economic Powers Act 

(50 CS.C. 1701 et seq.) (except that the requirements of section 202 of such Act (50 

U.S.C. 1701) shall not apply) to the extent necessary to block and prohibit all transactions in 

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igTulted foreign penmn if ~ueh property and in2 terests in property are in the United States, 

3 eorne within the United State~, or are or eorne 

4 within the possession or control of a C nited 

5 States person. 

6 (ii) The penalties provided for in sub7 sections (b) and (c) of section 20G of the InterS national Ernergem~y Eeonomie Power~ Aet, (50 

9 U.S.C. 1705) shall apply to a person that vio10 lates, attempts to violate, conspires to violate, 

11 or causes a violation of regulations prescribed 

12 under clause (i) to the same ex:ient that such 

13 penaltie~ apply to a per~on that (~ommit~ an un14 lawful act described in subsection (a) of such 

15 ~eetion 206. 

16 (l) The President may, pursuant to such 

17 reg11lations as the President may prescribe, pro18 hibit any transfers of credit or payments be19 tween one or more financial institutions or by, 

20 through, or to any financial institution, to the 

21 extent that such transfers or payments are sub22 ject to the jurisdiction of the United States and 

23 involve any interest of the designated foreign 

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25 (c) TR.Av"'"FJTJ-RRLATRD SANCTTOKS.-
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(1) ALIE~S INELIGIBLE FOR ~VISAS, AD:\HSSIO~, 

2 OR PAROLE.-A-11 alien who is designated as a crit3 ieal eyher threat aetor under suhse(~tion (a) is4 (A) inadmissible to the United States; 

5 (D) ineligible to receive a visa or other doc6 umentation to enter the Cnitcd States; and 

7 (C) othenvise ineligible to be admitted or 

8 paroled into the Unitecl States or to reeeive any 

9 other benefit under the Immigration and N a1 0 tionality Act (8 U.S. C. 1101 et seq.). 

11 (2) CURRJ<;N'l' VISAS RJ<;VOKJ<;D.-'l'he 1ssumg 

12 consular officer, the Secretary of State, or the Sec13 retary of Homeland Seeurity (or a desigTwe of either 

14 such Secretaries) shall revoke any visa or other 

15 entry doeumentation issued to the foreign person 

16 designated as a critical cyber threat actor under sub17 section (a) regardless of when issued. A revocation 

18 under this clause shall take effect immediately aud 

19 shall automatically cancel any other valid visa or 

20 entry documentation that is in the possession of 

21 such foreign person. 

22 (d) ADDITIONAL SAKCTIOKS WITH HESPECT TO 

23 FOlmiGN STATES.-

24 (1) IN GENERAL.-The President may impose 

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respeet to the g-overnment of ee:wh foreign state that 

2 the President has determined aided, abetted, or di3 red,ed a foreign pen.;on or ageney or instrumentality 

4 of a foreign state designated as a critical cyber 

5 threat actor under subsection (a). 

6 (2) SANCTIONS DJ£SClUBED.-'l'he sanctions re7 ferrecl to in paragraph ( 1) are the following: 

8 (A) The President may provide for the 

9 withdrawal, limitation, or suspension of non-lm1 0 manitarian or non-trade-related assistance 

11 United States development assistance under 

12 chapter 1 of part T of the Foreign Assistance 

13 Ad of 1961. 

14 (B) The President may provide for the 

15 witlHlrawal, limitation, or suspension of 1~nited 

16 States security assistance under part ll of the 

17 Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. 

18 (C) The President may instruct the Cnited 

19 States Executive Director to each appropriate 

20 international financial institution to oppose, and 

21 vote against the extension by such institution of 

22 any loan or financial assistance to the govern23 ment of the foreign state. 

24 (D) Ko item on the rnited States Muni25 tions List (established pursuant to section 38 of 
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2 778)) or the Commerce Control List set forth 

in Supplement No. 1 to part. 774 of title 15, 

Code of l<'ederal Regulations, may be expolted 

to the government of the foreign state. 

6 (c) lN1PLK\1EN'l'A'l'lOK .-'l'he President may exercise 

7 all authorities provided under sections 20:3 and 205 of the 

8 International Ernergen(~y E(~onornie Powers Aet (50 

9 U.S.C. 1702 and 1704) to carry out this section. 

] 0 (f) E:\J<JMPTTONS, \VATVER.S, AND REMOVALS OF 

11 SANC'l'IO~S AND DESIGNA'l'IONS.-

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under subse(~tions (b), ((~), and (d): 

(i) Activities sul~ject to the reporting 

requirements of title V of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 413 et seq.), 

or to any authorized intelligence activities 

of the United States. 

(ii) Any transaction necessary to comply with United States obligations under 

the Agreement between the United Nations 

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tions, signe!l .Tune 26, 19±7, and entered 

2 into force on November 21, 19± 7, or under 

3 the Vienna Convention on Consular Rela4 tious, sigued April 24, 1963, and eutered 

5 into force on March 19, 1967, or under 

6 other interuatioual agreemeuts. 

7 (2) "WAIVER.-The President may waive the im8 position of sandions deserihe!l in this sedion for a 

9 period of not more than one year, and may renew 

10 such waiver for additional periods of not more than 

11 one year, if the President transmits to the appro12 priate congressional committees a written determina13 tion that sud1 waiver meets one or more of the fol14 lcnving requirements: 

15 (A) Sueh waiver 1s important to the eeo16 nomic or national security iuterests of the 

17 United States. 

18 (B) Such wmver will further the enforce19 ment of this Act or is for an important law en20 forcement purpose. 

21 (C) Such waiver 1s for an important lm22 manitarian purpose. 

23 (3) RmVlOVALS Q}' SANCTIONS AND DESlGNA24 TIONS.-The President may prescribe rules and reg25 ulations for the removal of sanctions under sub-
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sed,ions (b), ((~), and (d) and the removal of designa2 tions under subsection (a) if the President deter3 mines that a foreign person, ageney or instrurnen4 tality of a foreign state, or government of a foreigu 

5 state subject to such sanctions or such desig11ations, 

6 as the case may be, has verifiably ceased its partici7 pation in any of the conduct \vith respect to which 

8 sueh foreign penmn, ageney or instrumentality of a 

9 foreign state, or government of a foreign state was 

10 subject to such sanctions or designation, as the case 

11 may be, under this section, and has given assurances 

12 that such foreig11 person, ageney or instrumentality 

13 of a foreign state, or government of a foreign state, 

14 as the ease may be, will no longer partieipate in such 

15 eondud. 

16 ( 4) EXGEP'l'lON '1'0 C0~\1PLY WITH C~l'l'J£D NA17 TIONS HEADQLiliTERS AGREEMEKT.-Sanctions 

18 under subseetion (c) shall uot apply to a foreign per19 son if admitting such foreign person into the rnited 

20 States is necessary to permit the United States to 

21 comply w~th the Agreement regarding the Head22 quarters of the United :\fations, signed at Lake Suc23 cess June 26, 1947, and entered iuto force :\fovem24 ber 21, 1947, between the United Xations and the 
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Unite!l State~, or other applieable international obli2 gations. 

3 (g) RrLE OF CONSTRTTCTION.-Nothing in thi~ ~e(~-

4 tion may be construed to limit the authority of the Presi5 dent under the International Emergency Economic Powers 

6 Act (50 C.S.C. 1701 et seq.) or any other provision of 

7 law to impose sanctions to address critical cyber threat 

8 ador~ and malieiou~ ~tate-~pon~ored eyber adivitie~. 

9 (h) DEFINITIONS.-In this section: 

10 (1) AmvrrTTED; AT,mN.-The terms "admitted" 

11 and "alien" have the meanings given such tenus in 

12 section 101 of the TmmigTation and Nationality Act 

13 (R U.S.C. 1101). 

14 ( 2) APPROPRIATE CO~GRESSIONAL COJYDIIT15 TEES.-The term "appropriate (~ongre~~ional eorn16 mittees" means17 (A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 

18 Committee on 11'imuwial Services, the Com19 mittee on the Juclieiary, the Committee on 

20 Oversight and Government Reform, and the 

21 Committee on Homeland Seeurity of the House 

22 of Representatives; and 

23 (B) the Committee on Foreign Relations, 

24 the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 

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and the Committee on Homeland Seeurity aml 

2 Governmental Mfairs of the Senate. 

3 ( 8) Acm~CY OR INSTRUMENTALITY OF A FOR4 J<JIGJ'\ S'l'A'l'B.-'l'he term "agency or instnunentality 

5 of a foreign state" has the meaning given such term 

6 m sec.tion 1603(b) of title 28, United States Code. 

7 (4) CRITICAL I~FRASTRUCTURE SECTOR.-The 

8 term "eritieal infrastrueture sedor" means any of 

9 the designated critical infrastruc.ture sectors identi1 0 fied in the Presidential Policy Directive entitled 

11 "Critical lnfrastruc.ture Security and Resilience", 

12 numbered 21, and dated February 12, 2013. 

13 (5) FOREIGN PERSON.-The term "foreign per14 son" means a person that is not a United States 

15 person. 

16 ( 6) J<'OREIG~ S'l'A'l'K-'l'he term "foreign state" 

17 has the meaning given such term in section 1603(a) 

18 of title 28, C nited States Code. 

19 (7) KNOWINGLY.-The term "knovvingly", with 

20 respect to conduct, a circumstance, or a result, 

21 means that a person has actual knowledge, or should 

22 have known, of the conduct, the circumstance, or the 

23 result. 

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means, \vithout permission or eonsent, or umler false 

2 pretenses. 

3 (9) STATE-SPONSORED CYBER ACTIVJTIES.-

4 The term "state-sponsored cyber activities" means 

5 any malicious cyber-enabled activities that6 (A) arc carried out by a government of a 

7 foreign state or an agency or instrumentality of 

8 a foreign state; or 

9 (B) are carried out by a foreign person 

10 that is aided, abetted, or directed by a govern11 mcnt of a foreign state or an agency or instru12 mentality of a foreig·n state. 

13 (10) UNITED STATES PERSON.-The term 

14 "United States person" means15 (A) a United States eitizen or an alien law16 fully admitted for permanent residence to the 

17 United States; or 

18 (B) au cutity organi:,-;cd under the laws of 

19 the United States or of any jurisdiction within 

20 the United States, including a foreign branch of 

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AMENDMENT TO THE AMENDMENT IN THE 

NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE TO H.R. 5576 

OFFERED BY MR. CONNOLLY OF VIRGINIA 

In sectiou 2(5), in the matter preceding subparagTaph (A), strike "Department of ,Justice has" and insert 

"Department of ,Justi(~e and the Department of the 

Treasury have''. 

In section 2(5), insert before subparagTaph (A) the 

follmving: 

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(A) on Mareh 15, 2018, five Russian entities and 19 Russian individuals were designated 

under the Countering Ameriea's Adversaries 

Through Sauctions Act, as well as pursuant to 

Executive Order 13694, for interference in the 

2016 United States elections aud other malicious cyber-enabled activities; 
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AMENDMENT TO THE AMENDMENT IN THE 

NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE TO H.R. 5576 

OFFERED BY MR. ROYCE OF CALIFORNIA 

In section 3(a)(2)(B)(i)(l), strike "important to the 

national security" and insert "in the national". 

In section :3, insert after subsection (e) the following: 

1 (f) COORDll'\A'l'lO~.-'l'o the extent practicablc2 (1) actions taken by the President pursuant to 

3 this se(~tion should he eoordinated vvith 1~nited 

4 States allies and partners; and 

5 (2) the Seeretary of State should work with 

6 United States allies and partuers, ou a voluntary 

7 basis, to lead an international diplomatic initiative 

8 to9 (A) deter critical cyber threat actors and 

10 state-sponsored cyber activities; and 

11 (B) provide mutual support to such allies 

12 and partners participating in such initiative to 

13 respond to such state-sponsored cyber activities. 
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In sedion :1(f)(1), redesignate subparagntph (A) as 

paragraph ( 1) and move such paragrfaph, as so 

redesignted, two ems to the left. 

In section 3(f), strike the first paragraph (1). 

In sectiou 3(f)(3), as so redesignated, strike "agreements" and insert "obligations". 

In section 3(f)(2)(A), strike "important to the econornie or national seeurity interests" and insert "in the 

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lli'im CONGRESS 

2D S!£88!01\ H. R. 5898 

To re<1nire the Seeretary of State to dPvelop a strategy (\Jl administration 

policy regarding UNR\VA, and for other pLLrposes. 

11\ THE HOUSE OP HEP1UJSE~'l'A'l'lVES 

lVIAY31,2018 

l'IIr. CIC'ILLINE (for himself and }Ir ZELDI'J) introduced the follo"'ing bill; 

wl1iel1 was referred to tl1e Committee on l<'orcig11 Affairs 

A BILL 

'l'o require the Secretary of State to develop a strategy 

on administration policy regarding UNRWA, and for 

other puqxJses. 

Re d enacted by the 8enate and House of Representa2 lives of the Um:ted Slates .America in Congress assen1.bled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Aet may be (~ited n s the "UNRWA Aecount5 ability Act of 2018". 

6 SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 

7 lt is the sense of Congress that the United States 

8 should9 (1) eontinne to oppose anti-Israel bias at the 

10 United ::.Jations and in United ::.Jations agencies; 
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(2) define and eonvey to the United Nationo-; 

2 and appropriate Unit eel :\1" ations agencies reform pri3 orities that shouhl he met in order to faeilitate fu4 ture United States funding for the United Nations 

5 Relief and \Vorks Agency for Palestine Refugees 

6 (UNHWA); and 

7 (:3) support gTeater transparency in ongoing re8 form efforts at UKRWA. 

9 SEC. 3. REQUIREMENT FOR STRATEGY ON ADMINISTRA-

] 0 TION POLICY REGARDING UNRWA. 

11 (a) HEPORT.-~ot later than 90 days after the date 

12 of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in 

13 eonsultation ·with the Administrator of the United Stateo-; 

14 Agency for International Development (USAID), shall 

15 submit to the Committee on Foreign .A.ffairs and Com16 mittce ou Appropriations of the House of Representatives 

17 and the Committee on Foreign R,elations and Committee 

18 on Appropriations of the Senate a report on the long-term 

19 strategy for funding and policy towards UNR\V A. 

20 (b) CONTRKTS.-The strategy required under sub21 section (a) shall include the following: 

22 (1) A detailed strategy regarding future rnited 

23 States contributions to U:.JR\VA, including the an24 ticipated United States contributions to UNRWA for 
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the five fiscal years after the !late of the enadment 

2 of this Act. 

3 (2) An identifi(~ation of the hnreaus, entities, 

4 and leadership positions aud offices within the De5 partment of State or any other Executive branch 

6 ageneies that review C uited States contributions to 

7 UNRWA, and an identification of the lead position 

8 in e<:wh sueh agency who is overseeing· ea(·h such ('or9 responding review. 

l 0 The metrics, data, and other information 

11 being used by the Department of State or an.Y other 

12 Executive branch agency to review United States 

13 eontributions to U~RWA. 

14 ( 4) A description of any desired reforms the 

15 Administration has submitted to or re<pu~sted from 

16 the C nitcd Nat ions or U nitcd K atious agencies that 

17 UNRWA undertake as a condition for future fund18 mg. 

19 ( 5) The national seeurity impaet of ehanges to 

20 United States funding to U~R:VVA. 

21 (c) FORM.-The strategy required under subseetion 

22 (a) shall be submitted in unelassified form, but may m23 elude a classified annex. 
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AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE 

TO H.R. 5898 

OFFERED BY MR. ZELDIN OF NEW YORK 

Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the 

follmving: 

1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the "UNRWA Account3 ability Act of 2018". 

4 SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 

5 It is the sense of Congress that6 (1) the United States should continue to oppose 

7 anti-Israel bias at the United Nations and in L'nited 

8 Nations agencies; 

9 (2) Harnas' use of (~ivilians as human shields, 

10 its failure to govern, and its use of resources to pro-

]] mote and perpetrate terrorism contribute to the hu12 manitarian crisis in Gmm; 

13 (:3) the Administration should complete the re14 views of United States assistan(~e prognuns for the 

15 West Bank and Gaza and the United Nations Relief 

16 and \Vorks Agency for Palestine Refugees in the 

17 Ncar East (UNRWA), which arc ongoing according 

18 to congressional testimony by Department of State 
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and United States Ageney for International Develop2 ment officials on ,June 13, 2018, as eJq)editiously as 

3 possible, and work ~with the international eornrnunity 

4 to take action to alleviate the humanitarian crisis iu 

5 Ga:;m and to prevent further destabilization; and 

6 ( 4) the Admiuistratiou should define and con7 vey to the United :\fations, United Nations member 

8 states, and appropriate United :\fations ageneies any 

9 reform priorities that the Administration believes 

10 should be met in order to facilitate United States 

11 contributious to U.:.JRWA. 

12 SEC. 3. REPORT ON LONG-TERM STRATEGY FOR POLICY 

13 TOWARDS UNRWA. 

14 (a) REPORT.-='Jot later than 45 days after the date 

15 of the emwtment of this Ad, the Seeretary of State, in 

16 cousultatiou with the Administrator of the United States 

17 Agency for International Development, shall submit to the 

18 Committee on l<'oreign Affairs and Committee on Appro19 pr-iations of the House of Representatives and the Com20 mittee on Foreign Relations and Committee on Appropria21 tions of the Senate a report on the long-term strategy for 

22 policy towards U='JRWA. 

23 (b) CONTJ<;NTS.-The report required under sub24 section (a) shall include the following: 
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( 1) A detail ell strategy regarding the Adrninis2 tration's planned budget requests for future rnited 

3 States eontributions to UNRWA. 

4 (2) A.11 identification of the bureaus, entities, 

5 and leadership positions and offices >vithin the De6 partmcnt of State or any other executive branch 

7 ageneies that review rnited States eontributions to 

8 UNRWA and an identifieation of the lead position 

9 in eaeh sueh ageney overseeing review of r nited 

10 States eontributions to UNRWA. 

11 (3) 'l'hc mctries, data, and other informatiou 

12 being used by the Department of State or any other 

13 exeeutive bran(~h agem~y to review United States 

14 eontributions to U.:.JRWA. 

15 ( 4) The (mrrent !lefinition of "refugee" that is 

16 used by CNRWA, and how and why that dcfinitiou 

17 eorresponds with, or differs from, the definition used 

18 by the United Nations High Commissioner for Rcfu19 gees (U.:.JHCR) or any other United Kations agen20 eies, if applieable, and the United States Govern21 ment. 

22 ( 5) A deseription of any reforms to U.:.JRWA 

23 that have been, or arc plauncd to be, submitted by 

24 the United States to the United .:.Jations, United Na25 tions member states, or UNRWA. 
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( 6) An assessment of (~omplian(~e \vith finam~ial, 

2 transparency, efficiency, oversight, and neutrality 

3 gniclelines agreed to by the Unitecl States and 

4 UNRWA as part of the lhamework for Cooperatiou 

5 Between UNRWA and the rnited States for 2018-

6 2019, aud prior frameworks. 

7 (7) An evaluation of options outside of the cur8 rent UNR\VA stnwture for meeting the humani9 tarian needs of Palestinians currently served by 

10 UNRWA, including costs associated v.~th such op11 tions. 

12 (8) The impact of changes to United States pol13 wy towards, aml funding for, UNR\VA on Unitecl 

14 States national security and regional stability in the 

15 Middle East, in(~luding asso(~iated seeurity irnpad,s 

16 on Israel. 

17 (c) FORM.-The report required under subsection (a) 

18 shall be submitted in an uuclassified form, but may m19 elude a classified annex. 

20 SEC. 4. REPORT ON REVIEW OF UNITED STATES ASSIST· 

21 ANCE PROGRAMS FOR THE WEST BANK AND 

22 G~ 

23 (a) IN GJ£.:--.f1£RAL.-Not later than 45 days after the 

24 elate of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, 

25 in consultation vvith the Administrator of the rnited 
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States Ag-eney for International Development, shall submit 

2 to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Committee on 

3 Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 

4 Committee ou Foreign Relations and Committee on Ap5 propriations of the Senate a report detailing the status 

6 of, and any conclusions produced by, the ~\dmiuistration's 

7 review of United States assistance programs for the \Vest 

8 Bank and Gaz<L 

9 (b) FORM.-The report shall be submitted in an un1 0 classified form, but may inelude a elassified annex. 

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AMENDMENT TO THE AMENDMENT IN THE 

NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE TO H.R. 5898 

OFFERED BY MR. CICILLINE OF RHODE ISLAND 

Page 1, after line 8, insert the following (and reclcsignate subsequent paragraphs accordingly): 

1 (2) United States contributions for the rnited 

2 Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Ref3 ugees in the Kear East (UNRWA) are intended to 

4 prm~de efficient and effective delivery of core edu5 cation, primary health care, and relief and social 

6 services, and other humanitarian assistance; 

Page 1, beginning on line 14, strike "the 1~ nited N ations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in 

the :\fear East (rNRWA)" and insert 'TNRWA". 

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AMENDMENT TO THE AMENDMENT IN THE 

NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE TO H.R. 5898 

OFFERED BY MR. PERRY OF PENNSYLVANIA 

Page 1, after line 8, insert the following (and reclcsignate subsequent paragraphs accordingly): 

1 (2) since the inception of the United :\fations 

2 Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in 

3 the Near East (UNRWA), the United States has 

4 been U='JRWA's largest donor, including contrib5 uting more than $:359,000,000 in fiscal year 2017; 

Page 1, beginning on line 15, strike "the rnited Natiom; Relief and \Vorks Agen(~y for Palestine Refugees in 

the .:.Jear East (CNRWA)" and insert 'TNRWA". 

Page 2, line 5, strike "and" at the end. 

Page 2, line 11, strike the period at the end. 

Page 2, after line 11, insert the follmving: 

6 (6) the Secretary of State should share with 

7 Congress the semi-annual reports that UNR\VA proS vides to the Department of State's Bureau of Popu9 lation, Refugees, and }figration on activities to in-
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form evaluation of eonforman(~e >vith (~onditions on 

2 United States contributions to UNR\:VA. 

Page 3, after line 21, insert the following (and redesiguate subsequent paragraphs accordiugly): 

3 (5) A copy of the report submitted to the Com4 mittees on Appropriations pursuant to Senate R,e5 port 112-172 to aeeompany S. :1241 of the 112th 

6 Congress (the Department of State, Foreign Oper7 ations, and Related Programs Appropriations Dill, 

8 2013) under the heading "Protracted Refugee Situa9 tions". 

Page :3, line 22, after "rNR\VA" insert ", including 

reforms to 1~KR\VA' s mamlate,". 

Page 4, after line 16, iusert the following: 

10 (10) A description of U.:.JRWA's curriculum re11 v-iew process, including an assessment of strengths 

12 and weakuesses of such process, aud of UNRvVA's 

13 adherence to such process. 

Page 4, after line 19, insert the following: 

14 SEC. 4. SUBMISSION OF MOST RECENT SEMI-ANNUAL 

15 UNRWAREPORT. 

16 Not later than 45 clays after the elate of the enact17 ment of this Ad, the Seeretary of State shall submit to 
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the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Committee on Ap2 propriations of the House of R,epresentatives and the 

3 Committee on Foreign Relations and Committee on Ap4 propriatious of the Seuate, iu an appropriate format, the 

5 most reeent semi-annual report provided by UNR\VA to 

6 the Departmeut of State's Bureau of Populatiou, Refu7 gees, and Migration on activities to inform evaluation of 

8 eonformanee with <~onditions on Unite<l States <~<mtribu9 tions to UNR\VA pursuant to the Framework for Col 0 operation Between UNRWA and the United States for 

11 2018-2019. 

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115TH CONGRESS 

2D SE88IOK 

(Original Signature of ~Vlember) 

H.R.6197 

To amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to authorize 

rewards for thwarting .,~ldlife trafficking linked to transnational organized erime, and for other purposes. 

IK THE HOUSE OF REPRESE)JTATIVES 

Mr. Dol\ OVA_ '\I introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committre on ____________ _ 

A BILL 

To amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 

1956 to authorize rewards for thwarting wildlife trafficking linked to transnational organized crime, and for 

other pm1Joses. 

Be it enaeted by the 8enate and !louse !!{ Repn:senta2 tives ofthe United States of~c!merica in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the "Rescuiug Auimals 

5 ~With Rewards Act of 2018" or the "RA \vi\ Act". 

6 SEC. 2. FINDINGS; SENSE OF CONGRESS. 

7 (a) FIKDINGS.-Congress finds the follmving: 
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( 1) \Vildlife traffieking is a major transnational 

2 crime that is estimated to generate over $10 billion 

3 a year in illegal profits aml whieh is in(~reasing1y 

4 perpetrated by organi,;ed, sophisticated criminal en5 terprises, including knovvn terrorist organi:1.ations. 

6 (2) Wildlife trafficking not only threatens en7 dangered species worldwide, but also jeopardizes 

8 loeal se(~urity, spreads disease, undermines rule of 

9 law, fuels corruption, and damages economic devel10 opment. 

11 (3) Combatiug wildlife trafficking requires a co12 ordinated and sustained approach at the global, re13 gional, national, and lom1l levels. 

14 ( 4) Congress stated in the Eliminate, Neu15 tralize, and Disrupt Wildlife Traffieking Aet of 2016 

16 that it is the policy of the United States to take im17 mediate actions to stop the illegal global trade in 

18 wildlife and wildlife products aud associated 

19 transnational organized crime. 

20 (b) SR~SR OF CONURRSS.-Tt lS the sense of Con21 gress that the Department of State's rewards program is 

22 a powerful tool in combating sophisticated international 

23 crime aud that the Departmeut of State aud Federal law 

24 enforcement should work in concert to offer rewards that 

25 target v.~ldlife traffickers. 
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1 SEC. 3. REWARDS FOR JUSTICE. 

2 Subparagn1ph (B) of seetion :16(k)(5) of the State 

3 Depaltment Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 

4 2708(k)(5)) is amended by inserting '\vildlife trafficking 

5 (as defined by section 2(12) of the Eliminate, .:.Jeutralize, 

6 and Disrupt WilcUife Trafficking Act of 2016 (16 U.S.C. 

7 7601(12): Puhli(~ Law 114-281)) and" after "indudes". 
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(Original Signature of ~Vlember) 

115TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSIOK H. R. 6207 

To support democracy and accountability in the Democratic Republic of 

tl1c Congo, m1d for other purposes. 

TK TilE HOUSE OF REPRESE:.JTATTVES 

}Ir. SMITH of New Jersey (for himself and lVIs. BASS) iutrodttced Lhe following 

bill; which was referred to the Committee on 

A BILL 

To support democracy and accountability in the Democratic 

Republi(~ of the Congo, and for other l11ll1Joses. 

1 Be il enacted by the Senate and House of Represenla2 hves ofthe Undecl 8tates ofA_mm·z:ca in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the "Democratic Republic 

5 of the Congo Democracy and Accountability Act of 2018". 

6 SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 

7 (a) TN GENRRAh-Tt is the sense of Congress that-
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( 1) the Derno(~ratie Republie of Cong-o has his2 torically faced election-related political instability, 

3 endemie (~orruption, armed eonfliet, gToss human 

4 rights abuses, and humanitarian crises, which desta5 bili:1.es the region and causes massive human suf6 fering; 

7 (2) the rnited States has provided billions of 

8 dollars to help stabilize the Derno(~ratie Repuhlie of 

9 the Congo, including through humanitarian aid, del 0 velopment assistance, and support for peacekeeping 

11 operations, since the end of the civil and regional 

12 war in 20o:3; 

13 ( 8) the stability of the DerrHH~rati(~ Repuhlie of 

14 the Congo is a strategic priority for the rnited 

15 States on the Afriean Continent and it is in the na16 tional security interest of the United States to sup17 port accountable governance in the Democratic R,e18 public of Congo; 

19 ( 4) United States policy with respect to the 

20 Democratic Republic of Congo should focus on help21 ing the country become more stable and democratic, 

22 including through supporting legitimate state au23 thority, such that the Government of the Democratic 

24 R,epublic of Congo is better able to respond to and 
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provi!le for the hasie needs of its eitizem; and live in 

2 peaceful coexistence \vith its neighbors; 

3 ( 5) the Government of the Derno(~rati(~ Republie 

4 of Cougo should comply with all obligatious under 

5 its Constitution, the International Covenant on Ci,~l 

6 and Political Rights ratified on November 1, 1976, 

7 and the December 2016 Saint Sylvestre agreement 

8 hrokere!l hy the Congolese Conferen(~e of Catholie 

9 Bishops, by1 0 (A) immediately lifting restrictions on the 

11 freedoms of assembly, expressiou, and associa12 tion; 

13 

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(B) releasing all politi(~al prisoners, indudmg those detained for peacefully exercising 

15 their rights: 

16 (C) ensuriug that state security forces pro17 teet the rights of peaceful demonstrators; 

18 (D) bringing to justice security force per19 sonnel accused of serious abuses against citi20 ~ens, including against protesters or opposition 

21 supporters; and 

22 (E) allmving private media outlets to oper23 ate freely; 

24 ( 6) the United States should continue to sup25 port efforts to hold free, fair, and democratic elec-
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tiom; in the Demoeratie Repuhlie of the Congo, in2 eluding by supporting the completion of an inclusive, 

3 tran~parent voter regi~tration pro(~e~~ and eivie edu4 catiou, preventing· or mitigating violence, and facili5 tating credible election observation by the African 

6 Union, the Southeru Africau Dcvclopmcut Commu7 nity, and other appropriate civil society entities. 

8 (h) SEKSE OF CoKCmESS ON HL\iAKITARIAN ASSIST9 ~~'JCE FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE DE::\IOCRATIC REPl~BLIC 

10 OF Tim CONGO.-Tt is the sense of CongTess that the Sec11 rctary of State, in coordination with the Admiuistrator of 

12 the United States Agency for International Development, 

13 ~hould (~ontinue to provide humanitarian and development 

14 assistance to the people of the Democratic Republic of the 

15 Congo through (~redible and indepemlent nongovernmental 

16 orgauizatious, including local partners, human rights or17 ganizations, women-led organizations, and faith-based or 

18 110n-faith-based organizations. In providing such assist19 ance, the Secretary and Administrator should prioritize20 (1) promoting partnerships "~th organihations 

21 that have had a long-term presence in the country 

22 and have achieved measurable impact, including by 

23 buildiug the capacity of local partuers, humau rights 

24 organizations, women-led organizations, or faith-
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ha~ea or non-faith-ba~ed organizations to addre~~ 

2 local needs; 

3 (A) pl~wing the eountry on a trajedmy to4 ward ending the need for foreign assistance; 

5 and 

6 (2) evaluating the comparative merits of grants, 

7 cooperative agreements, contracts, and other meth8 od~ for provi!ling foreign a~~i~tanee. 

9 (c) SEKSE OF COKGRESS ON SUPPORT FOR DEMO-

] 0 CRNI'TC GOVBR~i\NCR AND COKFTJTCT MTTTCMTTON lVfRCTT11 ~q__'\flS~\18 1~ THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC Q}' THE 

12 COKGO.-Tt is the sense of CongTess that the Secretm:v 

13 of State and the Allmini~trator of the United State~ Agen14 cy for International Development should15 

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( 1) (~ontinue to-

( A) support long-term peace and stability 

m the Democratic Republic of the Congo by 

strengthening democratic institutions and promoting respect for the rule of law at the national, prm~ncial, and local levels; 

(B) support the capacity of civil society actors to promote transparency, accountability, 

freedom of expression, and anti-corruption efforts; 
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(C) support eonfliet prevention aml mitiga2 tion activities where appropriate, particularly in 

3 the Kasai region of the Tanganyika Province, 

4 the North and South Kivu Provinces, and the 

5 Tturi Province; and 

6 (D) work to address the root causes of 

7 chronic ~violence and fragility, V\ith a focus on 

8 youth empowerment, e<hwation, and the pro9 motion of justice and accountability mecha1 0 nisms; and 

11 (2) seck to work directly with and through 

12 credible, independent, nongovernmental organi:T.a13 tions, induding loeal partners, human rights organi14 zations, women-led organizations, and faith-based or 

15 non-faith-based organizations, to16 (A) defend intcmationally recognized 

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democratic rights; 

(B) support freedom of expression, including through media broadcasting; 

(C) combat public corruption; and 

(D) improve the transparency and accountability of governing institutions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 
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1 SEC. 3. SUPPORT FOR EFFORTS AT THE UNITED NATIONS 

2 ON THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE 

3 CONGO. 

4 The President should instruct the Permanent Rep5 resentative of the United States to the C uited Nations to 

6 use the voice, vote, and influence of the United States at 

7 the United Nations to8 ( 1) emphasize the importanee of implementing 

9 the Deeember 201G Saint Sylvestre agTeement to the 

10 Govermnent of the Democratic Republic of the 

11 Congo, including the need to lift restrietions on the 

12 freedoms of assembly, eJq)ression, and association, 

13 and the need to conduct free, fair, and democratic 

14 eleetions; 

15 (2) keep the humanitarian and political crisis in 

16 the Demoeratie Republie of the Congo on the regular 

17 agenda of the United Nations Se(mrity Comwil until 

18 the completion of a peaceful transfer of power 

19 through free, fair, and clemoeratie eleetions; 

20 (3) ensure that the United Nations Orgaui:.-;a21 tion Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Repub22 lie of the Congo has an appropriately foeused man23 date tailored to seeurity and governanee conditions 

24 on the gTound vvith a partieular focus on eivilian 

25 protection, and that the mission has sufficient 
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means, in(~luding- speeialized personnel and effedive 

2 leadership, to execute its mandate; and 

3 ( 4) improve Member States' implementation of 

4 United Nations Security Council-imposed sanctions 

5 on individuals and entities ,~olating the rnited Na6 tions anns embargo, threatening the peace and secu7 rity of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, engag8 ing in human or resoun~e traffi(~king, or perpetrating 

9 gross human rights violations in the Democratic Re1 0 public of the Congo. 

11 SEC. 4. CODIFICATION OF SANCTIONS RELATING TO THE 

12 DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO. 

13 (a) I~ GEKEHAL.-United States sanetiom; provided 

14 for in Executive Order 1:3671 (79 Fed. Reg. 39947; relat15 ing to taking additional steps to address the national 

16 emergency with respect to the conflict in the Democratic 

17 Republic of the Congo) and Executive Order B 41:3 ( 71 

18 l<'ed. Reg. 64103; relating to blocking property of certain 

19 persons contributing to the conflict in the Democratic Re20 public of the Congo), as in effect on the day before the 

21 date of the enactment of this Act, shall remain in effect 

22 for the 7 -year period beginning on such date of enactment 

23 unless the President determines and certifies to the appro24 priate congressional committees that the Government of 

25 the Democratic Republic. of the Congo-
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(1) is making signifieant progTess towards hold2 ing free and fair elections and respecting the free3 dorns of press, expression, and assembly, as de4 scribed iu the December 2016 Saint Sylvestre agTee5 ment and in United Nations Security Council Reso6 lution 2348 (2017); or 

7 (2) has held free and fair presidential elections 

8 In aeeordanee >vith the Constitution of the Derno9 cratic Republic of the Congo and a democratically-

] 0 elected President has been sworn in and taken of11 fice. 

12 (b) Rur,E OF' CONSTRTJCTTON.-Subsection (a) may 

13 not he (~onstrued to restrid, the authority of the President 

14 to impose additional United States sanctions ~with respect 

15 to the Demo(~ratie Repuhlie of the Congo pursuant to the 

16 executive orders listed iu that subsectiou. 

17 (c) LIST OF SEKIOR POLITICAL FIGURES.-:\fot later 

18 than 90 days after the date of the euactment of this Act, 

19 the President shall submit to the appropriate congres20 sional committees a list of each senior foreign political fig21 ure, as such term is defined in section 1010.605 of title 

22 31, Code of Federal R.egulations (as in effect on the clay 

23 before the date of the euactmeut of this Act), of the Gov24 ernment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 
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(d) ADDITIONAL SANCTIONS DETERMI~ATION RE2 QUIRED.-Kot later than 120 clays after the elate of the 

3 emwtment of this Ad, the President shall submit to the 

4 appropriate c.ongressional c.ommittees a report listing· eac.h 

5 person inc.luded in the list required by suhsec.tion (e) that 

6 the President determines meets the c.riteria to be 

7 sanctionable pursuant to one or more of the following: 

8 (1) Exeeutive Order 1:'3671 (79 Fed. Reg. 

9 :3994 7; relating to taking additional steps to address 

10 the national emergenc.y "~th respec.t to the conflict 

11 in the Democ.ratic. Republic. of the Congo). 

12 (2) Executive Order 1:341:3 (71 Fed. Reg. 

13 6410:1; relating to blo(~king property of eertain per14 sons contributing to the conflict in the Democratic 

15 Republi(~ of the Congo). 

16 (3) Executive Order 13818 (82 J<'ed. Reg. 

17 60839; relating to blocking the property of persons 

18 involved in serious human rights abuse or corrup19 tion). 

20 (4) ParagTaph (3) or (4) of section 1263(a) of 

21 the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 

22 year 2016 (22 U.S.C. 2656 note). 

23 (c) RJ<;POR'l' OK HeMAN RIGHTS llliUSJ<;S AND COR24 RUPTION I~ THE DEMOCRATIC R.EPUBLIC OF THE 

25 COKC+O.-Kot later than 120 days after the date of the 
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emwtment of this Aet, the Se(~retary of State, in eonsulta2 tion \vith the Secretary of the Treasury, shall submit to 

3 the appropriate (~ongressional (~ornrnittees a report cleserib4 ing each of the following·: 

5 (1) The extent to which government offieials in 

6 the Democratic Republic of the Congo, including 

7 members of the military and security services, are 

8 responsible for or (~ornplieit in human rights abuses 

9 against civilians, including by deliberately impeding 

10 humanitarian aecess to civilians. 

11 (2) The methods used to transfer and conceal 

12 financial assets of senior officials of the Government 

13 of the Derno(~ratie Repuhlie of the Congo that are 

14 aequirecl through aets of eorruption. 

15 ( 8) U ni tell States ad ions to eombat sud1 eor16 ruption, including through the ISsuance of a 

17 FinCEN Advisory by the Department of the Treas18 ury or the imposition of targeted sanetions. 

19 ( 4) To what extent and in what manner such 

20 corruption threatens the security of the surrounding 

21 region or United States national seeurity interests. 

22 (5) ~t\ny assistanee provided by the rnited 

23 States to faeilitate oversight, transpareney, and ad24 herence to due diligence and accountability measures 
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>>'ithin the Derno(~rati(~ Republi(~ of the Congo's rnin2 erals, forestry, and agribusiness sectors. 

3 (f) FORlVI; PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.-

4 (1) l<'ORM.-'l'he list required by subsection (c) 

5 and the reports required by subsections (d) and (e) 

6 shall be submitted in unclassified form but may con7 tain a classified annex. 

8 (2) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.-The undassified 

9 portion of the report required by subsection (e) shall 

10 be published on a publicly available website of the 

11 Department of State. 

12 (g) APPR.OPR.TATFJ CONGRESSTONAT, COMlVfT'l"l'RiiJS.-

13 In this sedion, the term "appropriate (~ongTessional eorn14 mittees" means15 (1) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 

16 Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Pi17 nancial Sen'ices, and the Committee on \V ays and 

18 Means of the House of Representatives; and 

19 ( 2) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the 

20 Committee on Appropriations, and the Committee on 

21 Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate. 
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AMENDMENT TO H.R. 6207 

OFFERED BY MR. ROYCE OF CALIFORNIA 

Page 6, line 3, strike "of" and insert a comma. 

Page R, line 20, insert "as amended by Executive 

Order 1:3671 (79 Feel. Reg. :39947; relating to taking additional steps to address the national emergency vvith respect to the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the 

Congo)," before "as in effect". 

Page 8, line 22, strike "7 -year period" and insert 

"5-year period". 

Page 9, beginning line 12, strike subseetion (b) and 

insert the following: 

1 (b) Rl~LE OF CONSTRUCTION.-Nothing in this sec2 tion may be construed to limit the authorities of the Presi3 dent under the International Emergency Economic Powers 

4 Act (50 r.S.C. 1701 et seq.) or any other provision of 

5 law. 

Page 11, line 16, strike "inelucling through" and insert "which could include". 
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lli'i'l'H CONGRESS 

18'1' SESSIOJ\ H. CON. RES. 20 

IV 

EA11ressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarrling the exeeutionstyle murders of United States c·iti,;ens llli, Agron, and !VIehmet Bytyqi 

in the Hepublic of Serbia in July 199~1. 

IK THE HOUSE OF REPRESE_\rTATIVES 

FEBRl:ARY 6, 3017 

.Vlr. JIJCT,nTN (for himself, .Vlr. SMITH of New ,Jersey, !VIr. l~NOBT,, ::wd Ms. 

lVIENG) snbmitte<1 the following <'oneurr!'nt. re;wlut.ion; whieh was referred 

to Uw Commit Lee on Foreign ACCairs 

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 

E:~qJressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the execution-style murders of United States eiti7.ens 

Ylli, ~~Ton, and l\Iehmet Bytyqi in the Repnhli(~ of Serbia in ,July 1999. 

\.\.l1ereas brothers 'r1li, Agron, and Mehmet Bytyqi were citizens of the United States, horn in Chi(·.ag-o, Illinois, to 

ethnie Albanian parents from what is today the Republic 

of Kosovo, and who subsequently lived in Hampton Rays, 

New York; 

·whereas the three By-tyqi brothers responded to the brutality 

of the conflict assoeiated vlith Kosovo's separation from 

the Republic of Serbia and the Federal Republic of Yugosla-via of which Serbia vvas a constituent republic by join-
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mg the ~o-eallea "Atlanti(~ Brigade" of the Ko~ovo Liberation Army in April 1D99; 

vv1lerea~ a l\Iilitary-Tedmieal AgTeement. between the Government of Yu~wslavia and the North Atlantic Council came 

into effect on ,June 1 0, 1999, leading to a cessation of 

hostilities; 

\Vhereas the Bytyqi brothers vvere arrested on June 2:3, 

1099, by Serbian police within the Federal Republi<~ of 

Yugoslavia when the brothers accidently c·rossed what 

was then an unmarked administrative border while eseoding an ethnie Romani family who had het~n neighbor~ 

to safety outside Kosovo; 

\vl1ereas the Dytyqi brothers were jailed for 15 days for illegal into the J:i'cdcral Republic of Yugoslavia m 

Prokuplje, Serbia, until a judge ordered their release on 

.Tuly R, 1999; 

\Vhereas instead of being released, the B,ytyqi brothers were 

taken by a speeial operation~ unit of the Serhian :.VIinistry 

of lnterual Affairs to a training faeility ncar Petrovo 

Selo, Serbia, where all three were executed; 

vv1wrcas at the time of thcil· murders, Ylli was 25, -:\gTOH was 

2:3, and Mehmet was 21 years of age; 

\v1wreas Yugoslav President Slohodan Milosevie was removed 

from offiec on October 5, 2000, following massive demonstrations protesting his refusal to acknowledge and aeeept eleetion re~ult~ the month before; 

\Vhereas in the follcrw1ng years, the political leadership of 

Serbia has worked to strengthen demoeratie institutions, 

to develop stnmgcr adhcrcnec to the rule of law, and to 

ensure respect for human rights and fundamental free-

!loms, indwling as the Federal Repnhli<: of Yugoslavia 
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evolve!l into a State rnion of Serbia and MontenegTo in 

February 2003, which itself dissolved when both republies prodaimed their respeetive independenC'e in ,June 

200G; 

\\l1ereas the United States Embassy in Belgrade, Serbia, was 

informed on ,July 17, 2001, that the bodies of Ylli, 

Agron, and Mehmet Bytyqi were found ~with their hands 

hound and gunshot wounds to the hack of their heads, 

buried atop an earlier mass grave of approximately 70 

bodies of murdered civilians from Kosovo; 

\\11ereas Serhian authorities su1mequently investigate!l hut 

never charged those individuals who were part of the 

Ministry of Internal Affairs chain of command related to 

this crime, inc.ludiug former Minister of Internal 1\ffairs 

v1ajko Stojilkovic, Assistant Minister and Chief of the 

Puhlie Seeurity Department Vlastimir Djordjevie, and 

special operations training camp commander Ooran 

"Guri" R.adosavlje-.ic: 

Whereas Vlqjko Stqjilkovic died of a sclf-iuflicted gunshot 

wound in April 2002 prior to being transferred to the 

eustody of the International Criminal Tribunal for the 

former Yugoslavia where he had been charged with 

cr1mes against humanity and -.iolations of the laws or 

customs of war cluriug the Kosovo conflict; 

\\1>ereas v1astimir Djordjevic. was arrested and transferred to 

the eusto!ly of the International Criminal Tribunal for 

the former Yugoslavia in June 2007, and sentenced in 

February 2011 to 27 years imprisonment (later reduced 

to 18 years) for erimes against humanity and violations 

of the laws or customs of war committed during the 

Kosovo conf1ict; 
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\'11ereas Goran "Guri" Radosavljevie is reporte!l to reside in 

Serbia, ·working as director of a security consulting firm 

in BelgTalle, and is a prominent memher of the governing 

political party: 

vvl1ereas two Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs offieers, 

Sretan Popovie and Milos StQjanovic, were charged iu 

2006 for m·imes associated >vith their involvement in the 

detention and transport of the I3ytyqi brothers from 

Prokuplje to Petrovo Selo, but acquitted in May 2012 

with an appeals court confirming the verdict in March 

201:1; 

\\l1.ereas no individual has ever been found guilty for the 

nmrders of 'llli, Agron, and Mehmet B:vtyqi or of any 

other crimes associated with their deaths; and 

\\l1ereas no individual is currently faeing criminal rharges regarding the murder of the B:vty(ti brothers aespite many 

promises by Serbian officials to resolve the case: ~ mv, 

therefore, he it 

1 Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 

2 concurring), That it is the sense of CongTess that3 ( 1) those individuals responsible for the mur4 ders in Jdy 1999 of United States citizens Ylli, 

5 AgTon, and Mehmet Bytyqi in Serbia should be 

6 brought to justiee; 

7 (2) it is reprehensible that no individual has 

8 ever been found guilt;.r for exeeuting the Bytyqi 

9 brothers, or of any other crimes associated with 

l 0 their deaths, and that no individual is even facing 

11 charges for these horrible crimes: 
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Chairman ROYCE. I now recognize myself to speak on today’s 

business and I will just explain that first we are going to have H.R. 

6207. This would be the Democratic Republic of the Congo Democracy and Accountability Act. And as an original cosponsor of this 

bill, I want to thank many of the members of this committee who 

have traveled with me to the Congo. I have made three trips there 

in order to try to push for elections. I deeply appreciate the bipartisan work of Chairman Smith and Ranking Member Bass of the 

Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and 

International Organizations. 

President Kabila’s security forces are responsible, as we know on 

this committee, for massive human rights abuses and great instability across the DRC. This bill will help push Kabila to follow 

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pushed him on, to hold free, fair, and transparent elections in December of this year, as Congo has committed to do. 

Next we have H.R. 1697. This is the Israel Anti-Boycott Act. This 

bill was sponsored by Representative Roskam and Vargas. It prohibits U.S. companies from participating in boycotts promoted by 

international organizations like the U.N. that target U.S. partners 

like Israel. 

Next we have H.R. 5898, the United Nations Relief and Works 

Agency Accountability Act. And I want to thank the authors, Representative Cicilline and Representative Zeldin for this bipartisan 

bill to strengthen congressional oversight of the State Department 

and this agency. 

Next we consider H.R. 4969. This is the Improving Embassy Design and Security Act and this legislation will improve the security, 

the functionality, the efficiency of our Embassies overseas. And I 

want to thank the bill’s sponsors, Chairman McCaul and Rep. 

Kelly, as well as Ranking Member Engel for their work on this legislation because by strengthening oversight and management of 

construction of new facilities, we can better protect our diplomats. 

And we will save taxpayer dollars, too, by the way this legislation 

was crafted. 

Next we have H.R. 5576. This is the Cyber Deterrence and Response Act. Malicious cyber activity by foreign governments, including especially, Russia, China, and North Korea cannot be tolerated. 

So Chairman Yoho’s bill before us today builds on this committee’s 

previous work by establishing a framework for deterring and responding to malicious state-sponsored cyber activity. 

Next we have H.R. 6197, the Rescuing Animals with Rewards 

Act. This builds on the committee’s conservation work by 

prioritizing efforts to counter transnational wildlife traffickers 

through the State Department’s existing rewards program. These 

tools were successfully used, if you recall, in 2014 to bring the Laotian trafficker known as the Pablo Escobar of Wildlife Crime to justice. I want to thank the bill’s author, that would be Representative 

Dan Donovan, former prosecutor, for this measure. 

Next we have House Resolution 944. Hundreds of Guatemalans 

perished in the eruption of the volcano in June. Thousands have 

been displaced. I wanted to thank Congresswoman Torres for this 

timely resolution to extend our condolences to the people of Guatemala and to recognize the State Department and USAID’s swift response to this crisis. 

Next we have House Resolution 256, which sends a strong message of support to our allies in Central and Eastern Europe that 

are under increasing pressure by Russia. We thank Steve Cohen 

for this measure. 

Finally, we have House Concurrent Resolution 20. In July 1999, 

after the Kosovo War ended, there were three young American 

brothers that were there and were illegally arrested while they 

were traveling through Serbia. Despite a court order for their release, all three brothers were instead taken by a Serbian special 

operations unit. They were murdered execution style and they were 

left atop a mass grave. 

I would like to take a moment to express our deep condolences 

to the Bytyqi family because that family is with us today. This 

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marks 20 years since these U.S. citizens were assassinated, yet to 

date, no one has been brought to justice for their deaths. 

And I want to thank Representative Zeldin for this measure. But 

we again want to deeply extend our condolences to the family here 

with us today. We are very, very sorry for your loss. 

So I will now recognize the ranking member for his remarks. Mr. 

Engel. 

Mr. ENGEL. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Thank you for 

calling this markup. 

I have a lengthy statement addressing all the good measures before us today and I ask unanimous consent that it be included in 

its entirety as part of the record. 

Chairman ROYCE. Without objection. 

Mr. ENGEL. I know we are short on time this morning, final votes 

will be called soon, and I want to give members an opportunity to 

speak about their bills and resolutions. 

I just want to speak about one bill briefly and that is the bill you 

just mentioned about the Bytyqi brothers. I have spent extensive 

time of my years in Congress fighting for the independence of 

Kosovo and these brothers, American citizens, were murdered by 

Serb forces. Despite many of us having contacts with Serbia, I appealed to the Serbian strong man, Mr. Vucic, when he was here, 

and came to my office twice, and promised me that this would be 

resolved within a month. More than a year and, of course, it hasn’t 

been resolved and it is an absolute disgrace. 

So we have to keep supporting the Albanian people in their 

struggle in Kosovo and keep the presence of the Bytyqi brothers 

alive. And we are not going to stop until we get justice for them. 

So I want to single out that resolution. 

Again, I support all the resolutions. I am grateful, as usual, to 

our members on both sides of the aisle for their hard work. And 

I thank you again, Mr. Chairman. I wish everyone a safe and 

happy independence day. 

And I yield back. 

Chairman ROYCE. Thank you, Mr. Engel. 

We go to Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. 

Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Thank you so much, Chairman Royce, and I 

applaud your efforts, as well as Ranking Member Engel to continue 

to bring forth bipartisan measures before this committee for consideration. 

I wanted to speak on the UNRWA Accountability Act offered by 

our friends and colleagues Mr. Cicilline and Mr. Zeldin. I applaud 

their efforts to find a way forward in ensuring that we hold 

UNRWA accountable and that no U.S. taxpayer dollars are being 

misused against our interest. 

We can all support the idea that greater transparency, oversight, 

and accountability are needed at all U.N. agencies, not just 

UNRWA; however, I worry that this bill, which requires a report 

from the administration on its UNRWA strategy, doesn’t quite go 

far enough. The United States holds considerable leverage when it 

comes to UNRWA, namely that it relies on the kindness of our contributions. We shouldn’t wait to use that leverage. 

This bill should lay out the conditions we need to see reform at 

UNRWA before the U.S. will allocate more money to that agency. 

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It is an ever-expanding mandate, an ever-expanding budget gap, an 

ever-growing politicization at the agency and all of that makes it 

difficult for us to continue supporting this agency without seeing 

concrete reform and action to address our concerns, not to mention 

the idea of having a definition of the word refugee that guarantees, 

Mr. Chairman, that the number of Palestinians that UNRWA mandate covers will expand. 

So the model is untenable. It is unjustifiable, especially when 

there is an entire entity at the U.N. that is already supposed to be 

its Refugee Agency, a body which, by the way, covers 12 times 

more individuals than UNRWA, yet somehow employs less than a 

third of the people than UNRWA in a body that has its own definition of a refugee that doesn’t match with the U.N.’s own Refugee 

Agency, nor does it match how we would define a refugee. 

So while, again, I applaud my colleague’s effort and I support 

this measure, I would have liked to have seen us do more to condition our assistance to UNRWA until we see real reforms. 

And I yield back, Mr. Chairman. 

Chairman ROYCE. Good points, Congresswoman. 

We go now to Brad Sherman of California. 

Mr. SHERMAN. Mr. Chairman, thank you for this markup, bringing excellent bills to our attention. I support them all. I think I 

have cosponsored virtually all of them. 

As to the Anti-Israel Boycott Act, this is probably—this has 

drawn a lot of attention. I am pleased to be the lead Democrat on 

this bill. 

We have, for decades, said that Americans will not be forced to 

boycott a friend of the United States by international economic 

pressure. On the effort of Saudi Arabia and others to tell American 

companies you must not do business with Israel or you will be deprived of economic opportunities, we responded to that by saying 

no American company can furnish the Saudi Arabian Government 

with proof that it is boycotting Israel or otherwise cooperate with 

the Saudis on this. 

What this bill does is it says there is no loophole in this longstanding, multi-decade policy if the pressure comes not from one 

government but from an association of foreign governments. Let me 

make it clear nothing in this bill says that you cannot, any domestic organization can’t protest against Israel, or boycott its products, 

or those of any other ally of the United States. It simply says that 

we will not allow American citizens to be pressured into that by 

foreign governments, which has long been our law, or by associations of foreign governments. 

I should also comment on the Cyber Deterrence and Response 

Act. I am pleased to join with Chairman Yoho of the Subcommittee 

on Asia and the Pacific, of which I am the ranking member, because this is not just a Russia problem. But I am pleased that this 

bill does focus on the way that states, including Russia, have 

sought to undermine our electoral system. And that is a bipartisan 

issue, not just an issue of one party. No American wants to see 

Russia influencing our elections, particularly through illegal and 

hidden measures. 

I want to, of course, support the Congo Democracy and Accountability Act and I want to commend Representatives Smith and 

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Bass, and of course, the chair and ranking member, for their work 

on this bill reaffirming our commitment to peace and stability in 

the region, especially in light of President Kabila’s obstruction of 

elections. 

The other bills before us are also excellent and, in support of 

them, I will yield back my time. 

Chairman ROYCE. Thank you, Mr. Sherman. 

Mr. Chris Smith of New Jersey. 

Mr. SMITH. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. 

And just let me say very briefly you know I support the bills that 

are before us but I just would like to focus especially on the Democratic Republic of Congo Democracy and Accountability Act, H.R. 

6207. 

I, too, have been to the DRC, both to the capital and to Goma. 

We all know that the DRC and the people of that country have suffered so enormously over the years. More than 5.4 million people 

died between 1997 and 2003. Peacekeepers that were deployed 

there, the largest U.N. peacekeeping force in the world, were found 

complicit in human trafficking, especially the rape of young children. Thankfully, that has been largely stopped. I held four hearings on that, went there to investigate that in Goma, and was 

shocked and dismayed that the peacekeepers are part of the problem, and working, and doing things that rogue elements are doing, 

you know we have a serious problem. 

This legislation focuses especially on Kabila, and his unwillingness to step aside, and to allow the election to occur in a timely 

fashion. We have called and the Obama administration did impose 

sanctions on key figures. Those are codified in this legislation. And 

our Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, has been very 

forthright as well in speaking out against Kabila’s clinching of 

power and unwillingness to let go of it. 

H.R. 6207 supports the humanitarian efforts that are being made 

by civil society. And in the ongoing effort, Ms. Bass and I have held 

a number of hearings on the D.R. Congo, most recently on May 9th, 

another one late last year, of which you were a part of that, Mr. 

Chairman. But you know John Prendergast just summed it up. The 

Kabila government’s track record of violent repression against civil 

society, pro-democracy movements, and faith-based groups raises 

concerns that these new protests will be met with a fresh wave of 

violent repression. And we speak to that in the body of the language of the bill as well. 

People want a free, fair, and transparent election. In the D.R. 

Congo, the Catholic Church has played a huge role in trying to ensuring that. The Sylvester Agreement in 2016 was a great effort to 

bring things together and, of course, it has been largely frustrated 

by Joseph Kabila. And this legislation tries to take it to the next 

step and get the administration here and there further engaged to 

get this right. 

So I thank you for marking this piece of legislation up and yield 

back. 

Chairman ROYCE. Thank you, Mr. Smith, and thank you for all 

your work on that issue as well. 

Congresswoman Karen Bass of California. 

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Ms. BASS. Thank you, Mr. Chair and Ranking Member Engel, for 

bringing up H.R. 6207 to the committee today for consideration. 

H.R. 6207, the DRC Democracy and Accountability Act, seeks to 

promote free and fair elections in the DRC by imposing sanctions 

on high-level individuals who are undermining democratic processes and institutions in the country, as well as those who are responsible for extrajudicial killings and have engaged in public corruption. 

With respect to the ongoing political situation in the DRC, President Kabila has deliberately stalled planned elections, despite completing his constitutionally-mandated two terms. I, personally, am 

very concerned that although he has committed to having elections 

in December, there is not a lot of faith that that is actually going 

to happen. And I can’t think of any issue more than the DRC that 

I have had numerous constituents who are in the diaspora who 

have come in and really called on us to please help the situation. 

So last year, the U.N. General Secretary Kofi Annan and nine 

former African Presidents said Congo’s future is in grave condition—grave danger. We are deeply concerned about the political situation in the DRC, which represents a threat to the stability, prosperity, and peace of the Great Lakes region and, indeed, for Africa 

as a whole. We feel obliged to sound the alarm before it is too late. 

Nine former African Presidents have said that. 

I am proud that my colleagues, Chris Smith, Chairman Royce, 

and Ranking Member Eliot Engel and I are able to answer this call 

and put forth legislation that seeks to address the situation in the 

DRC. 

Thank you and I yield back. 

Chairman ROYCE. Well thank you, Congresswoman. And it is certainly true that heads of states across Africa—we just had a delegation out there and everyone is focused on the same issue. As a 

matter of fact in the international community everyone is focused 

on the same issue, the importance, come December, of having those 

elections across Congo. 

Joe Wilson, South Carolina. 

Mr. WILSON. Thank you, Chairman Ed Royce, and thank you, 

Ranking Member Eliot Engel. I particularly want to commend Congressman Engel on his renomination this week. We are really 

grateful for his continued service on behalf of the American people. 

And thank you for convening this markup of legislation that embodies the committee’s emphasis on building national and international security, improving human rights, and fighting international crime. 

I am also grateful for Congressman Steve Cohen for introducing 

House Resolution 256, expressing support for the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. As the grateful cochairman of the Bulgaria Caucus, I appreciate Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and Bulgarian Ambassador to the United States Tihomir Stoytchev for their strong 

support of NATO. 

As the NATO Summit in July approaches, it is important for the 

Congress of the United States to confirm its commitment to the alliance and particularly Article 5, which states that an armed attack 

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ment from the whole of NATO ensures security among our Eastern 

and Central European NATO allies. 

Article 5’s commitment to defend members is critical with the 

Russian invasion of Eastern Ukraine, and illegal occupation of Crimea since 2014, and earlier aggression in Moldova and the Republic of Georgia. Thankfully, President Trump has rightfully promoted the fundamental concept of collective defense in his historic 

Warsaw address. The security NATO provides the United States 

and Europe has never been more critical as we promote the European Deterrence Initiative with NATO troops deployed in Poland, 

Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania. 

This morning I met with the Polish Secretary of State Plenipotentiary of the Prime Minister, Anna Maria Anders, who promoted a permanent American-NATO basing in Poland to support 

peace through strength. 

I also appreciate House Resolution 944 expressing solidarity and 

sympathy of the people of Guatemala after the June 3, 2018, eruption of the Fuego Volcano. I am grateful for Congresswoman Norma 

Torres for introducing this legislation and highlighting the ongoing 

plight of the Guatemalan people to combat the destruction by the 

volcanic eruption. Last August I saw firsthand the talented people 

of Guatemala with former Ambassador Tony Hall, serving with the 

Food for the Hungry Program, and was welcomed by Ambassador 

Manuel Alfredo Espina and the courageous President Jimmy Morales. 

This legislation for markup and discussion today provides and 

strengthens America’s national and international security, protects 

Americans abroad, and promotes American values among our 

friends and allies. I am grateful to support and cosponsor all of today’s markup legislation. 

And I yield back my time. 

Chairman ROYCE. Thank you, Mr. Wilson. 

We go to Lois Frankel of Florida. 

Ms. FRANKEL. Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to our ranking member, and to all the members whose bills are on deck today, 

and I support them all. I want to highlight a couple of them. 

First, the Israeli Anti-Boycott Act, of which I am a cosponsor, 

which would expand anti-boycott laws prohibiting United States 

compliance with the Arab League boycott of Israel to international 

organizations so that American companies doing with business 

with Israel are protected from the efforts to target them. And I 

want to thank my colleagues for making changes to the bill that 

would ensure protection of First Amendment rights. 

The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions or BDS movement encourages economic warfare against Israel, our strongest ally in the Middle East. And demonizing Israel harms the world’s only Jewish 

state but it also creates a roadblock on the path to peace, impacting 

both Israelis and Palestinians. 

I am going to give an example of this. After facing mounting boycotts, SodaStream, an Israeli soda machine company, was forced to 

shut down a West Bank factory, putting 600 Palestinians out of 

work. Ali Jafar, a shift manager, said, ‘‘All the people who wanted 

to close it are mistaken.’’ They didn’t take into consideration the 

families. 

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Second, I want to draw attention to the UNRWA Accountability 

Act. The Trump administration has frozen all assistance to the 

West Bank and Gaza, including the United Nations Relief and 

Work Agency, pending a review and providing no time line or specifics to Congress. This bipartisan bill would increase transparency 

and congressional oversight, forcing the administration to report on 

the ongoing review because the freeze makes no sense. Because if 

you want to stop the further violence from spilling over even further, we have to participate in humanitarian assistance. 

The senior Israeli security officials have warned that if the situation in Gaza continues to deteriorate, it could lead to war. 

And the last bill I would like to mention is the Resolution 256, 

which expresses support for NATO and the countries of Central 

and Eastern Europe, condemns Russia’s Ukraine occupation and 

calls for U.S. continued support for ally countries in Central and 

Eastern Europe. 

Over the past 4 years I have been privileged with some of the 

members here to represent the United States at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. And in this role, I am frequently reminded 

that no man or woman is an island. Societies do not thrive when 

they are isolated from others. We need our allies to stand with us 

as we fight for mutually-shared democratic values. 

It was reported this morning that Mr. Trump told the leaders, 

at a recent G-7 Summit, that NATO is as bad as NAFTA, that it 

is much too costly for the United States. And this President likes 

to call NATO obsolete. And I just want to say I think he is flat 

wrong. It is so relevant today, given the dynamics of threats we 

and our allies face. 

At a time when the administration sows doubts about this critical alliance, we must affirm our commitment to NATO and reassure our Central and Eastern European partners that we will defend them against Russian aggression. 

And I yield back and, again, thank my colleagues. 

Chairman ROYCE. I thank the gentlelady. 

We go to Ted Yoho of Florida. 

Mr. YOHO. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 

Before I get started, I just would like to acknowledge the Bytyqi 

family again for the sacrifice that you guys have made and your 

family members. Our hearts go out to you. 

Chairman Royce, Ranking Member Engel, I want to briefly address the Cyber Deterrence and Response Act. Most importantly, I 

want to thank you and other original cosponsors for supporting the 

bill and working so closely with our team to create a carefully tailored and bipartisan piece of legislation. 

Without objection, I would like to submit up for the record this 

letter of support from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. As the 

Chamber points out, the bill will help spotlight adherence to international norms and deterrence to heighten the cost on countries or 

the subordinates that hack the United States. 

Chairman ROYCE. Without objection. 

Mr. YOHO. It is no secret the United States urgently needs upgrades and cyber deterrence but there are no procedures in current 

law for naming and shaming state sponsored hackers and/or linking penalties to their elicit conduct. We have spent over a year 

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working to make sure this legislation is consistent with past practices, and doesn’t tie the hands of the executive branch, but will 

still upgrade our cyber deterrence measures by establishing minimum penalties and ensuring the cyber actions are implemented 

consistently across administrations to come. 

The Cyber Deterrence Response Act also pairs very well with 

Chairman Royce’s Cyber Diplomacy Act which will elevate cyber 

issues in the State Department. Together, these pieces of legislation begin to lay out a much-needed national cyber policy, and it 

is a proactive component to establish norms, and a reactive component to defend our interests. 

I thank you and hope my colleagues on the committee will give 

their support of the bill and I yield back. 

Chairman ROYCE. Thank you. 

We go to Robin Kelly of Illinois. 

Ms. KELLY. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for including H.R. 4969 

in today’s markup, the Improving Embassy Design and Security 

Act. Together with Mr. McCaul, I am proud to support this important legislation that will allow for greater congressional oversight 

of Embassy construction and save taxpayers money. 

The State Department must balance designing a functional space 

that will properly represent the United States to the host country 

with the necessary security protections for the modern age. Protecting our diplomats overseas should be a top priority, which is 

why I was disappointed to see the Trump administration budget request a 28.4 percent decrease for fiscal year 2019 from 2018 enacted levels for Embassy security and construction. 

We heard repeatedly that the tragedy that happened in Benghazi 

should not be repeated. This administration has to make Embassy 

security a bigger priority. That is why I am glad we are voting on 

this legislation to protect our diplomats working overseas and prevent projects from going over cost. 

I was also an original cosponsor of H. Res. 256, expressing support for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in the countries of 

Central and Eastern Europe, which is under consideration today. 

This important resolution calls for continued U.S. support for 

NATO allies and the European Deterrence Initiative. 

Putin’s illegal annexation of Crimea and interference in European elections cannot be forgotten. Russia has undermined international law and killed tens of thousands of Ukrainians. This resolution shows Europe and NATO that the U.S. Congress stands by 

our allies and will not allow Russia to threaten our collective security. 

I yield back. 

Chairman ROYCE. Thank you, Congresswoman Kelly. 

We go to Lee Zeldin of New York. 

Mr. ZELDIN. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the committee’s consideration of these bills today. 

Beginning with H. Con. Res. 20, this resolution has been introduced since 2013 regarding the execution-style murders of Ylli, 25 

years old, Agron, 23 years old, and Mehmet, 21 years old, who were 

born in the United States and resided in the greatest congressional 

district in America, in Hampton Bays, First Congressional District 

of New York. 

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In July 1999, these three brothers went overseas toward the end 

of the Kosovo War and were arrested by Serbian authorities for illegally entering the country when they accidently crossed in the 

Serbian-controlled territory. The brothers were kidnapped, murdered, and dumped into a mass grave in Serbia by government officials still serving today. 

Since taking office, I have been committed to helping the Bytyqi 

family receive the justice they have long deserved. They are here 

today in the audience, and supported today’s resolution, and to 

honor their family’s sacrifice. 

It is absolutely reprehensible that, despite many promises by 

Serbian officials to resolve the case of the state-sponsored murder, 

no individual has ever been found guilty of this horrible crime, nor 

of any other crimes associated with the deaths of these innocent 

Americans. This is Serbian Government’s responsibility to resolve 

this case. And my resolution notes that progress with this investigation should remain a significant factor which determines the 

further development of U.S.-Serbian relations. 

The Bytyqi brothers gave their lives to fight injustice. Now we 

must return this favor and deliver justice for their family. 

I want to thank the chair for his support in bringing this resolution. I would like to thank the ranking member, Eliot Engel, for all 

of his advocacy through the years, and all my colleagues for supporting it. 

I am also proud of the committee’s consideration of H.R. 5898, 

the UNRWA Accountability Act, a robust bipartisan effort with Mr. 

Cicilline to maintain oversight over UNRWA’s activities in the 

West Bank and Gaza. Over the past 6 years, every effort to obtain 

transparency over UNRWA has failed with classified reports and 

uncertainty regarding who is actually responsible for conducting reviews. 

We need to crack down on UNRWA and ensure that we are not 

supporting a Refugee Agency that keeps millions in a permanent 

state of dependency. 

Our bill will provide important information to Congress regarding the definition of refugees served by UNRWA, as well as a strategy for burden sharing that offers the opportunity for other regional actors to contribute evenly. We must demand that transparency over the anti-Israel textbooks in this program that is fueling another generation of hate. 

I have read the classified reports. I have spoken to my colleague, 

our colleague Scott Perry. There are other members who are very 

concerned about this and there is more that we need to be doing 

in the weeks, months, and years ahead. The United States cannot 

support a program that goes against the best interest of our greatest ally. 

I would like to thank our committee chairman, Ed Royce, and 

ranking member, Eliot Engel, for their leadership and assistance 

on these important issues. I look forward to working with my colleagues in the House and our friends in the Senate to pass these 

bills. 

Again, I would like to thank you, Chairman, and Ranking Member, for your hard work in support of these bills and I yield back. 

Chairman ROYCE. Thank you, Mr. Zeldin. 

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We go to Brendan Boyle of Pennsylvania. 

Mr. BOYLE. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 

I am supportive of each one of these nine resolutions. I just want 

to highlight one because I think that it is incredibly important at 

this time in history and that is H. Res. 256, which expresses support for the countries of Eastern Europe and NATO. 

We have led now for 70 years, through Democratic and Republican administrations, the Western Alliance. NATO has been the 

bulwark against first Soviet and then Russian expansionism. This 

is something that all Americans should be very proud of. 

And now that some doubt has been raised about this country’s 

commitment to NATO, I think that it is vital that this committee 

assert itself on a bipartisan basis to speak out with one voice that 

we support NATO, that we support our allies, especially in Central 

and Eastern Europe, as they continue to deal with Russian attacks, 

whether they are a physical force, like our friends in Ukraine are 

experiencing today, or they are in the cyber realm. 

So I am proud to support this. I applaud my fellow cosponsors, 

both Democrats and Republicans. 

And with that, I yield back. 

Chairman ROYCE. Thank you, Mr. Boyle. We agree with your 

point. 

We go now to Mr. Mike McCaul of Texas. 

Mr. MCCAUL. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you for holding 

today’s markup. 

I am pleased to have bill H.R. 4969, the Improving Embassy Design and Security Act considered today. 

Mr. Chairman, in 1998, terrorists, at the direction of Osama bin 

Laden, bombed U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 

over 220 people and injuring 4,000 more. This assault foreshadowed bin Laden’s intention to attack America and demonstrated we need to seriously reassess our Embassies’ security. 

That is why, in 1999, Congress adopted a standard Embassy designed for our missions abroad. This design improved security, expedited construction, and saved money. For 20 years, this design 

template has been key in mitigating attacks. We have also saved 

taxpayer dollars through bypassing expensive architectural bids. 

However, recently, we have deviated from the standard Embassy 

design in favor of projects prioritizing aesthetics. While I certainly 

appreciate the desire for our Embassies to have a presentable facade, we must prevent a repeat of Kenya and Tanzania. 

To that end, my bill will require the State Department to provide 

Congress with justification, should an Embassy or consulate project 

not use a standard design. Embassies are the physical representation of the United States abroad. Providing security for our diplomats should be our number one priority. I think, if anything, 

Benghazi certainly demonstrates that. So I believe my bill is a good 

step toward achieving that goal. 

And thank you, again, Mr. Chairman, for moving these bills 

through the committee. 

Chairman ROYCE. Thank you, Chairman McCaul. 

We go to Norma Torres of California. 

Mrs. TORRES. Thank you, Chairman Royce and Ranking Member 

Engel, for your hard work on these bipartisan bills. I support all 

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of these measures and I can’t say enough about the work that you 

two do, the bipartisan work that both of you do together, and how 

this committee performs on an ongoing basis. 

In particular, I am glad that we are considering H.R. 1697, the 

Israel Anti-Boycott Act. For too long, Israel has been unfairly singled out at the United Nations and elsewhere. No country is perfect. All of us can do better but the criticism of Israel is simply not 

proportionate to its flaws. 

This bill is an important effort to address that problem and I 

thank the chairman and the ranking member for their hard work 

to address some of the First Amendment concerns that have been 

raised. 

I also want to thank the chairman and ranking member for 

bringing up House Resolution 944. And I was thrilled to have the 

opportunity to work with Chairman Smith on this resolution, 

which expresses sympathy for the victims of the recent volcanic 

eruption in Guatemala, and I appreciate several members of this 

committee joining us as cosponsors. We all care deeply about the 

beautiful country of Guatemala and I am encouraged that we can 

join together in support of the victims. 

According to the latest figures from the Guatemalan Government, 112 people were killed by this volcano eruption, 5,923 have 

been evacuated, 197 missing, and 29 were injured. People across 

Guatemala and the international community have joined together 

in a relief effort. The U.S. Government worked to transfer six children who were burn victims, the youngest only 1 year and 8 

months old, to the Shriners Hospital in Galveston, Texas. USAID has announced $300,000 in initial funding for relief efforts and I have read stories of volunteers from those communities 

that were mostly affected who have taken upon themselves to 

search for victims or the bodies of their relatives and friends. Just 

the other day I had the opportunity to sit down with Chef Jose Andres, who is doing tremendous work getting food to those who need 

it, especially the hardworking first responders that are saving 

many lives every day. 

We have seen countries across the region, Honduras, Mexico, and 

from across the entire world, strong allies like Israel and Taiwan, 

send aid as well. It is encouraging to see so many people who are 

concerned about the victims but we can’t lose focus on this issue, 

and we must remain vigilant to ensure that the victims get the 

help they need, and are able to reestablish their lives in Guatemala. Otherwise, we could see this volcanic eruption lead to yet another wave of refugees at our border. 

I urge all of the Members here in Congress to help continue to 

encourage USAID to do all that they can do to help these victims 

relocate within the Guatemalan border. 

So I, again, thank the chairman and the ranking member and I 

urge my colleagues to support this important measure. 

And I yield back. 

Chairman ROYCE. Thank you, Congresswoman Torres. 

Now we go to the author of the RAWR Act and, from the title, 

I presume wildlife protection and Katy Perry fan, Dan Donovan of 

Staten Island. 

Mr. DONOVAN. I will take care for that credit, Mr. Chairman. 

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Mr. Chairman, I am proud to sponsor the RAWR Act, Rescuing 

Animals with Rewards, H.R. 6197. The RAWR Act will help ensure 

that eliminating the terrorist and transnational criminal organizations engaged in wildlife trafficking and poaching will be a top rewards priority. 

Combating terrorism is of the utmost importance, not just to my 

constituents, not just to New Yorkers, but to the entire nation. It 

is an issue that reaches across the aisle. My district on Staten Island and South Brooklyn, which is home to many of New York 

City’s bravest and finest, suffered hundreds of first responder casualties on September 11th of 2001. Since then, New York remains 

the world’s top terror target. 

As a nation, we have become more resilient and determined to 

mitigate threats but, as we have choked off other sources of money, 

terrorists have increasingly turned to wildlife trafficking as a way 

to fund their heinous endeavors. Any step, no matter how incremental, we can take that will lead to the capture and conviction 

of anyone engaged in wildlife trafficking, especially terrorists, is a 

step in the right direction. 

I thank you, Mr. Chairman, for your support on this bill and I 

thank my friend from the other side of the aisle, Mr. Castro, for 

co-leading with me. I would also like to thank the staff at the Foreign Affairs Committee, who have put much excellent work into 

this bill. 

And with that, Mr. Chairman, I yield back. 

Chairman ROYCE. And with that, we will go to Mr. Castro. 

Mr. CASTRO. Thank you, Chairman. Thank you, Representative 

Donovan, for your work and your partnership on the bill, and to 

the other members of the committee on their bills. 

I do want to raise a concern with H.R. 1697, which is that I basically think that the bill is written a bit too vague and it is too 

broad. It mentions that the President is going to come up with regulations to protect nations that are friendly to the United States 

but doesn’t go on to define exactly which nations those are. 

The reason that I think that it is problematic is because this administration, including the President, on any controversial issue of 

foreign policy, have essentially given us two, or three, or four, or 

five different answers. Sometimes the President has given different 

answers himself on the same subject. So I hope that between now 

and the time that the bill goes on the floor, perhaps there can be 

some more definition. 

I would also feel more comfortable if Congress had some say over 

this, rather than essentially, right now, expanding the foreign policy power of this President, who I believe in many ways has been 

irresponsible with that power. 

I yield back. 

Chairman ROYCE. Thank you. We go to Brad Schneider of Illinois. 

Mr. SCHNEIDER. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman and 

Ranking Member, thank you for holding today’s markup. 

I commend my colleagues for working on the legislation before us 

today. In particular, I appreciate the efforts of my good friend from 

Florida, Ted Yoho, on his bill, H.R. 5576, the Cyber Deterrence and 

Response Act of 2018. This bill will help protect our country from 

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cyber-attacks by requiring the President to designate foreign persons and entities responsible for state-sponsored cyber threats. 

This bill would also require the President to publish and regularly 

update this list and, finally, impose sanctions. 

We know there are malicious actors out there right now seeking 

to target the United States. Russia’s efforts to interfere in our 2016 

election was only the beginning, as we have heard from our intelligence community that serious threats remain. 

Earlier this year, the Director of National Intelligence stated 

that Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea will pose the greatest 

cyber threats to the United States during the next year. Our Government must do more to protect our election infrastructure and 

seek to ensure the integrity of every citizen’s vote. 

I would also like to express my appreciation for the work of my 

colleagues in updating H.R. 1697, the Israel Anti-Boycott Act. I am 

a cosponsor of this bill that declares it is United States policy to 

oppose boycotts imposed by international government organizations 

against countries that are friends to the United States. This bill 

solely covers commercial activity and does nothing to limit the 

rights of individuals protected by the First Amendment. 

Finally, I would like to commend the work of my colleagues, 

David Cicilline and Lee Zeldin, for their work on H.R. 5898, the 

UNRWA Accountability Act, and to associate myself with the sentiment in the bill expressing the sense of Congress that the administration should complete its reviews of U.S. assistance programs for 

the West Bank, and Gaza, and UNRWA. This bill also calls for a 

long-term strategy for policy toward UNRWA and will help us better understand the reforms the administration has called for, how 

they plan to address the humanitarian needs currently covered by 

UNRWA, and the impact any policy changes will have on broader 

regional security and stability, including specifically toward Israel. 

Once again, I thank the chairman and ranking member for holding today’s hearing. 

And with that, I yield back. 

Chairman ROYCE. We go now to David Cicilline of Rhode Island. 

Mr. CICILLINE. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank you 

and the ranking member for holding this markup and for including 

the UNRWA Accountability Act, which I introduced with my colleague, Mr. Zeldin, on the list of bills being considered today. 

Holding a markup on this bill is a testament to the bipartisanship of this committee and the leadership of Chairman Royce and 

Ranking Member Engel. As we all know, UNRWA can be a controversial topic here in Congress but we have been able to come together to support a bill that will reassert congressional oversight 

for funding programs to UNRWA, and the West Bank, and Gaza. 

In January, the Trump administration announced that it was 

holding any further funding for UNRWA, the United Nations Relief 

and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees, which is the U.N. 

agency responsible for carrying out assistance programs for Palestinian refugees. Today, there are roughly five million Palestinians 

eligible for UNRWA services in the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, 

Syria, and Jordan. We have also been recently informed by the administration officials that all future assistance for the West Bank 

and Gaza has been put on hold pending review as well. 

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This legislation will assert proper congressional oversight of the 

administration’s review of funds to UNRWA, and assistance to the 

West Bank and Gaza, and ensure that details of the review process 

are provided in a timely manner in what, so far, has been a review 

with no discernable process or time line. It will do this by requiring 

that the administration submit two reports to Congress detailing 

the status of the reviews within 45 days. 

To be clear, I believe that funding for these bilateral programs 

and for UNRWA, funding which has been appropriated by Congress, should be resumed immediately. There is no reason why it 

is necessary to hold funding while conducting the review. And any 

decisions made as a result of the review can be carried out in the 

new fiscal year with appropriate coordination with Congress. Congress has repeatedly sought details about the ongoing reviews from 

administration officials but very little has been provided. 

Meanwhile, the situation of Palestinian refugees, particularly in 

Gaza, is getting more dire by the day. For example, UNRWA has 

said that it currently faces a $250 million shortfall for 2018 and, 

despite taking measures to limit expenditures, will be unable to 

open all of its 700 schools on time in August. Hamas has offered 

to take over administration of Palestinian schools in Gaza, should 

UNRWA be unable to do so. 

UNRWA doesn’t have funding to support food rations for the 

final quarter of the year, which will leave hundreds of thousands 

of Palestinians without the ability to meet their nutritional needs. 

The unemployment rate in Gaza is nearly 50 percent and 

UNRWA is about to terminate 3,000 short-term contracts due to 

budget shortfalls, leaving even more families without the means to 

support themselves. 

The freeze of bilateral assistance programs in the West Bank and 

Gaza, which are largely carried out by NGOs is also having a devastating impact. For example, Catholic Relief Services has said 

that 140,000 individuals in Gaza will lose emergency assistance 

and they will be forced to lay off 90 staff members by September. 

American Near East Refugee Aid reports that if the freeze continues, 71,000 people will lose access to projects improving water, 

sanitation, schools, and other critical facilities. These are just a few 

examples of the real-world impact that the current freeze of funds 

is having on Palestinians. 

I ask the chairman for unanimous consent to place two documents into the record. The first is a program budget and Gaza field 

update provided by UNRWA and the second is a compilation of information from NGO’s working in Gaza and the West Bank entitled 

NGO Programs in Gaza and the West Bank Impact by Funding 

Hold During Administrative Review as of June 15, 2018. 

Chairman ROYCE. Without objection. 

Mr. CICILLINE. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 

Whatever criticisms we have UNRWA and the Palestinian leadership, and there are many valid ones, it is contrary to American 

interests and the interests of Israel to exacerbate this humanitarian crisis. If the administration is seeking structural changes to 

UNRWA, they must seek them at the United Nations General Assembly, which is the only body that can alter UNRWA’s mandate. 

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If they want to see alternatives to UNRWA for American assistance delivery, they should do so in a concerted and transparent 

way that does not leave a devastating funding gap for Palestinian 

humanitarian assistance. 

And if they desire reforms that UNRWA can undertake internally, they should submit those reforms to UNRWA and begin a 

conversation about how they can be achieved. I would note that 

there is a formal process for this and the Trump administration 

signed a new framework for cooperation between the United States 

and UNRWA in December 2017, which lays out a series of shared 

goals and priorities for UNRWA and the United States. 

I would like to submit this document into the record and ask 

unanimous consent to do so. 

Chairman ROYCE. Without objection. 

Mr. CICILLINE. Rather than take a series of thoughtful and coordinated steps in order to lay out and address their concerns with 

UNRWA, the administration has acted in a way that suggests to 

me that they intend to use the increasingly dire humanitarian situation in Gaza and the West Bank as a stick to try to force Palestinian acquiescence to Jared Kushner peace plan. This is not only 

cruel, it is bad policy. 

As the United States slows or stops its contributions to UNRWA, 

we must understand that other actors will fill the gap. Countries 

like Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Qatar will not ask for strict oversight 

of UNRWA’s school curriculum or the abuse of UNRWA resources 

by Hamas. If we give up our position as a donor, we also give up 

our influence. 

This is a dangerous game. If you don’t believe me, believe the 

current Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces, Gadi Eizenkot, 

who said in an interview earlier this year that the likelihood of escalation to the point of war has increased substantially between 

Gaza and Israel, in part because of the cuts to UNRWA funding. 

And I would like to ask unanimous consent to place that article in 

the record as well. 

And Mr. Chairman, just in closing, I know many of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle have deep concerns about the 

functions of UNRWA, about Hamas’ role in Gaza, and about the 

Palestinian leadership’s commitment to achieving peace. I share 

many of these concerns and I think this body has taken many steps 

to address these issues but we shouldn’t throw the baby out with 

the bath water and I am glad that today we were able to consider 

a bipartisan piece of legislation that will bring some order and 

timeliness to this review process and expert proper congressional 

oversight of our foreign assistance. 

And I want to thank all of my colleagues for their support of this 

legislation and particularly thank Mr. Zeldin for working across 

the aisle to ensure this issue receives due consideration by this 

body. 

And I thank the chairman for his indulgence and yield back. 

Chairman ROYCE. Thank you. 

We go to Ted Poe of Texas. 

Mr. POE. Thank you, Chairman. 

I support all of these pieces of legislation before us, except the 

last one from Mr. Zeldin, and I have some questions. He is not here 

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but maybe Mr. Engel can yield for a question or two regarding H. 

Con. Res. 20. 

Mr. ENGEL. Sorry. Certainly. 

Mr. POE. It is my understanding that there have been some prosecutions. Those people were tried, they were found not guilty, and 

upheld on appeal. Is that right or wrong? 

Mr. ENGEL. Yes, I am not sure. I don’t know of any. 

Mr. POE. All right. According to the—anyway, I believe that has 

occurred. I will take back my time. 

But my concern, Mr. Chairman, is the fact that we, in this H. 

Con. Res., and I will make it very clear, being a former judge, 

criminals need to be prosecuted and prosecuted wherever they commit these crimes in the world. 

I do believe that Serbia is moving to try to find at least the one 

person that has been mentioned in the resolution itself and prosecute. But be that as it may, I don’t think that the answer to getting Serbia to prosecute these outlaws is to not have a relationship 

with the country of Serbia. I think we can only solve these problems if we have a relationship with countries, not if we break off 

relationships with these countries. 

So for that reason, I would not support this H. Con. Res. 

Chairman ROYCE. Would the gentleman yield? 

Mr. POE. Absolutely. 

Chairman ROYCE. I thank the judge for yielding. I would point 

out that in this particular case, although charges were brought at 

one point—yes, charges were brought momentarily against two individuals but swiftly those charges were then again dropped. 

There was another case, as you say, where charges were brought 

on a third individual but that individual passed on. So it became 

a moot point. 

The point I would make is that we can engage, we can have a 

relationship with states but, at the same time, retain our rights on 

behalf of our own citizens. So in this particular circumstance, we 

have three American citizens hiking on the border, who cross over 

the border from Albania to Serbia, and then are killed by a death 

squad. 

It is, I think, under this set of circumstances, the fact that no 

one has been brought yet to the bar of justice these many years 

after, altogether appropriate upon reflection here, I think, given 

that set of circumstances, that we move a resolution. And remember that as this resolution was written, we did try to incorporate 

this particular perspective, Your Honor. Judge, we did recognize recent improvements in U.S.-Serbia relations in the text in order to 

try to be balanced. We added: Whereas, in the following years, the 

political leadership of Serbia has worked to strengthen democratic 

institutions—I think that is an important point, strengthen democratic institutions—to develop stronger adherence to the rule of 

law, and to ensure respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, including as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia evolved into 

a State Union of Serbia and Montenegro in February 2003, which 

itself dissolved—okay. 

So the point is that we have included that language but, at the 

end of the day, we are left with three Americans whose lives were 

taken by a paramilitary unit and nothing done by the state to hold 

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someone ultimately accountable. For that, I think it is quite understandable and quite proper that we move forward and speak on behalf of those Americans. 

I yield back. 

Mr. POE. Reclaiming my time, once again, where crimes are committed, wherever they happen in the world, especially against 

Americans, we ought to go get the outlaws. We ought to have that 

country help get the outlaw. 

But just reading the resolution as it is written, it states that 

there were two individuals that were tried and found not guilty, 

and they appealed their case, and the appellate court upheld the 

acquittal on those two individuals. 

But my concern is not that. My concern is how we, as a nation, 

go after encouraging Serbia to correct this mistake, correct this 

crime, rather, and make sure people are brought to justice. And I 

am concerned about how our diplomatic relations should not decrease. They should increase. 

So that is the concern I have—the way that it is addressed in 

the resolution, how we find justice for these three individuals. Certainly, the criminals needs to be brought to justice. 

So I will yield back, Mr. Chairman. 

Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Chairman? 

Chairman ROYCE. Mr. Engel. 

Mr. ENGEL. I am wondering if I can get some time to comment 

on this. 

Chairman ROYCE. Mr. Engel. 

Mr. ENGEL. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 

When Secretary Tillerson was still Secretary of State and came 

before this committee, I just want to read into the record an exchange that I had with him. 

I said that I am deeply concerned with the lack of justice for 

murders and crimes committed by the Government of Serbia during and after the Kosovo War. And particularly, there have been 

no charges brought against anyone for the murders of three American citizens, the Bytyqi brothers, despite widespread understanding of who was behind them. 

Serbian President Vucic and Acting Prime Minister Dacic have 

promised very senior U.S. Government officials for many years that 

they would bring to justice the perpetrators of this crime and the 

crime of burning our Embassy in 2008. They both also made these 

promises to me. 

On January 31st of this year, the respected Humanitarian Law 

Center of Belgrade released a dossier called, ‘‘The Cover-Up of Evidence of Crimes During the War in Kosovo: The Concealment of 

Bodies Operation.’’ This report described mass graves in Serbia 

containing the bodies of 941 Kosovo Albanians, mainly civilians 

killed outside combat situations in Kosovo, during 1999. According 

to the report, and I quote, the evidence corroborated the decision 

to conceal evidence of crimes committed was planned as early as 

March 1999 at the highest level of the government, and indicated 

that members of both departments of the Serbian MUP, which is 

the State Security Department, Public Security Department, and 

the Yugoslav’s Army Departments in charge of clearing up the terrain—I think that is a quote—were involved in it. 

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The murder and mass burial of almost a thousand innocent civilians is a crime against humanity but the perpetrators have gone 

unpunished. It is long past time for Belgrade to face these facts 

and bring to justice the people, including high officials in its government, who are behind these very serious crimes. 

At the same time, the Serbian stalling and stonewalling has 

brought no adjustment in policy from the United States and the 

European Union’s willingness to proceed with Serbia’s accession 

process to the EU has been unaffected. This has to stop. It has to 

stop now until Serbia bring those who have committed these serious crimes to justice. The EU should not move ahead with Belgrade’s accession process and the United States should think twice 

before advancing our relations with Serbia. 

And I asked: What is the United States doing to press Serbia to 

bring to justice the murderers of the Bytyqi brothers, those who 

burned the United States Embassy, and those who murdered and 

buried in mass graves almost a thousand innocent Kosovo civilians, 

with the ICTY, which is I-C-T-Y, no longer accepting any new cases 

and closing down at the end of this year, and Serbia seemingly unwilling to prosecute anyone for these grave offenses? Will you support a new international or special tribunal similar to that which 

was established in Kosovo to prosecute those responsible? 

And Secretary Tillerson answered: We share your frustration 

with a lack of progress in the Bytyqi case, and the slow progress 

in the 2008 Embassy burning case, and raised the issue with Serbian officials at all levels of government, including with Serbian 

President Aleksandar Vucic. We have also informed Serbian officials that these issues stand in the way of closer bilateral relations. 

Serbia recently appointed a new special war crimes prosecutor. 

The position had remained vacant for almost a year and a half. 

And we have called for the Bytyqi case to be a priority in her work. 

We are hopeful that this appointment will serve to advance the investigation and prosecution of those responsible for the Bytyqi 

murders. 

And I think I will end here. 

Mr. POE. Will the gentleman yield? 

Mr. ENGEL. Certainly. 

Mr. POE. I don’t quarrel with anything that you have said regarding what has happened in the war crimes and the incidents 

throughout history. 

My concern is if we diminish our relationship with Serbia, getting an answer to all of these questions that you have brought up—

I don’t think will increase. I think it is a mistake to decrease relations with Serbia. I think we need to increase those relations so 

that we can get resolution to all of the things that you have mentioned. 

So I will yield back to the gentleman and I thank him for his 

comments. 

Mr. ENGEL. Let me just say very quickly to the gentleman, who 

is my friend, and who I have a lot of respect for, the frustration 

is that it has been 19 years and nothing seems to happen, whether 

we have good relations, or bad relations, or anything like that. And 

so it is very frustrating. 

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I had an ironclad promise face-to-face by the head of Serbia, Mr. 

Vucic, who told me it would take him a month and it has been 

much more than a year now. So it is just a frustration. I know the 

gentleman has worked very hard in trying to improve relations in 

that part of the world and improve relations with countries and the 

United States but it is just coming to a head and is very, very frustrating. 

But I understand the gentleman’s points. 

Chairman ROYCE. Noting we are halfway into the vote on the 

floor, we must go to Mr. Gerry Connolly of Virginia. 

Mr. CONNOLLY. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 

And knowing that, let me just say I want to associate myself 

with the remarks Mr. Cicilline on humanitarian crisis. By 

defunding or freezing funding for UNRWA is not going to add anything in terms of stability in the Middle East and it is not a friendly act to Israel. 

So I certainly associate myself with him and support H.R. 5898. 

I just wanted to thank the chairman, and ranking member, and 

the author of the bill H.R. 5576 for accepting my amendment, 

which is adding Russia as an identified cyber bully. Nobody has 

interfered, historically, in American elections with the breadth and 

scope of Russia. We need to take cognizance of that. 

The Trump Treasury Department did just that in announcing 

sanctions in March against five Russian entities and 19 Russian individuals, pursuant to Executive Order 13694 and the overwhelmingly passed bipartisan bill Countering America’s Adversaries 

Through Sanctions Act. 

So I thank my colleagues for accepting the amendment. I think 

it is an important statement for us and I intend to support the motions before us. 

I yield back. 

Chairman ROYCE. And we thank you for your contribution to the 

bill with that amendment, Mr. Connolly. 

Mr. CONNOLLY. I thank you and I yield back. 

Chairman ROYCE. Hearing no further requests for recognition, 

the question occurs on items considered en bloc. 

All those in favor say aye. 

All those opposed, no. 

In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it and the measures 

considered en bloc are agreed to. 

Without objection, each measure in the en bloc is ordered favorably reported, as amended, as a single amendment in the nature 

of a substitute, and staff is directed to make any technical and conforming changes, and the chair is authorized to seek House consideration under suspension of the rules. 

That concludes our business today and I want to thank, of 

course, all our members here, and Ranking Member Engel for your 

contributions and assistance with today’s markup. 

The committee is adjourned. 

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Edward R. Royce, CA X EliotL EngeL NY 

Christopher H. Smith. NJ X Brad Sherman. CA 

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, FL Gregory W. Meeks, NY 

Dana Rohmbacher. CA X Albia Sires. NJ 

Steve Chabot. OH X Gerald E. Connolly, VA 

Joe Wilson, SC Theodore E. Deutch. FL 

Michael T. McCaul, TX X Karen Bass, CA 

Ted Poe, TX William Keating, MA 

Darrell Issa, CA X David Cicillinc. RJ 

Tom Marino, PA Ami Bem.CA 

Mo Brooks. AL X Lois F rankcl. FL 

Paul Cook. CA T ulsi Gabbard, HI 

Scott Perry. PA X Joaquin Castro, TX 

Ron DeSantis. FL X Robin Kelly. IL 

Mark Meadows, NC X Brendan Boyle. P A 

Ted Yoho. FL X Dina Titus. NV 

Adan1 Kinzinger, IL X Nonna Torres, CA 

Lee Zeldin. NY X Brad Schneider, IL 

Dan Donovan, NY Tom Suozzi. NY 

James F. Sensenbrem1er. Jr., WI X Adriano Espaillat. NY 

Ann Wagner, MO Ted Lieu, CA 

Brian J. Mast. FL 

Brian K. Fitzpatrick, PA 

Francis Rooney, FL 

Thomas A. Garrett. Jr.. VA 

John Curtis. UT 
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6/28/18 Foreign Mfairs Committee Markup Summary 

By unanimous consent, the Chair called up the following measures and amendments, previously 

provided to Members, to be considered en bloc 

1) H. Res. 256 (Cohen), Expressing support for the countries of Eastern Europe and the 

North Atlantic Treaty Organization; 

a. Royce 3, an amendment in the nature of a substitute to H. Res. 256; 

i. Royce 134, an amendment to Royce 3; 

ii. Wilson 68, an amendment to Royce 3. 

2) H. Res. 944 (Torres), Expressing solidarity with and sympathy for the people of 

Guatemala after the June 3, 2018, eruption of the Fuego Volcano; 

a. Torres 11, an amendment in the nature of a substitute to H. Res. 944. 

3) H.R. 1697 (Roskam), Israel Anti-Boycott Act; 

a. Royce 4, an amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 1697; 

i. DeSantis 82, an amendment to Royce 4; 

ii. Royce 1, an amendment to Royce 4. 

4) H.R. 4969 (McCaul), Improving Embassy Design and Security Act of2018; 

a. McCaul 105, an amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 4969; and 

i. Titus 62, an amendment to McCaul 105. 

5) H.R. 5576 (Yoho), Cyber Deterrence and Response Act of 2018; 

a Yoho 137, an amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 5576; 

i. Connolly 86, an amendment to Yoho 137; 

ii. Royce 2, an amendment to Yoho 137. 

6) HR. 5898 (Cicilline), UNRWA Accountability Act of 2018; 

a. Zeldin 1, an amendment in the nature of a substitute to HR. 5898; 

i. Cicilline 1, an amendment to Zeldin 1; 

ii. Perry 1, an amendment to Zeldin 1. 

7) HR. 6197 (Donovan), Rescuing Animals With Rewards Act of2018; 

8) HR. 6207 (Smith), Democratic Republic of the Congo Democracy and Accountability 

Actof2018; 
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a. Royce 133. 

9) H. Con. Res. 20 (Zeldin), Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding 

the execution-style murders of United States citizens Ylli, Agron, and Mehmet Bytyqi in 

the Republic of Serbia in July 1999. 

The measures considered en bloc were agreed to by voice vote. 

By unanimous consent, the measures were ordered favorably reported, as amended, as a single 

amendment in the nature of a substitute to the House, and the Chairman was authorized to seek 

House consideration under suspension of the rules. 

The Committee adjourned. 
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number of students. UNRWA might also not be able to maintain its current level of 

support to students with special needs. 

:r Based on trends, UNRWA will need to accommodate an additional10,000 students in the 

coming school year, which will require running triple-shift schools in some areas. 

Health: UNRWA provides access to primary health care for some 1.3 million Palestine refugees in 

22 UNRWA health centres in Gaza. About one million patients are treated on a quarterly basis. 

:r At a time when the public health sector is on the verge of collapse, as evidenced by recent 

research on the stalling of declines in infant mortality\ UNRWA must continue to provide 

critical primary healthcare services and support to hospitalisation for Palestine refugees. 

~ Since the initiation of the "Great March of Return'' at the end of March 2018, UNRWA 

health centres treated more than 2,588 injuries (the majority being moderate to severe 

gunshot injuries), presenting additional and non-budgeted demand on UNRWA. In the 

longer-term, refugees will depend on UNRWA for physiotherapy/rehabilitation 

assistance, psycho-social counselling and hospitalization support for postponed elective 

surgeries. All in all, UNRWA requires an additional USD 10 million for its health response 

to the "Great March" demonstrations. 

Food assistance: UNRWA provides food assistance to almost one million vulnerable Palestine 

refugees 

:r On a quarterly basis, UNRWA provides emergency food assistance to approx. 530,000 

refugees living below the abject poverty line (US$ 1.74/person/day) and approx. 400,000 

refugees living between the abject poverty line and the absolute poverty line (US$ 

3.87 /person/day). 

:,.. UNRWA has secured sufficient funding to cover food commodities for the Q3 distribution 

(July-September) but has not yet secured funds to cover distribution and logistics costs 

(USD 2 million/cycle). So far, UNRWA has zero funding for the Q4 distribution (total 

required: USD 15-17 million). Hundreds of thousands of refugees might lose their food 

rations that cover 40-80 per cent of their caloric needs (depending on the family's poverty 

status). 

Income generation opportunities: 

~ From January to June, approximately USD 5 million was injected into the collapsing local 

economy through short-term (usually three month) work opportunities. UNRWA already 

had to significantly reduce the number of contracts from 5,000 to 2,900 (active at any one 

time). 

:r There is no funding available for this programme beyond the end of July, which means 

that almost 3,000 open contracts will have to be terminated. Suspension of the 

programme will accelerate the downward trend of the Gaza economy where 

unemployment stood at 49.1 percent in Q1/2018. 

Other essential services: UNRWA also provides mental health support, protection and other 

forms of assistance to thousands of vulnerable children and women, including survivors of GBV 

and the disabled; funding for the Community Health Programme runs out end of July. 

1 "Stalled decline in infant mortality among Palestine refugees in the Gaza Strip since 2006" (2018L van den Berget 

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Education: UNRWA in the West Bank provides access to basic education for 48,192 children in 

95 schools. 

';- UNRWA at this point cannot guarantee the opening of the new school year on 29 

August. It will be extremely difficult for the PAin the West Bank to absorb such a large 

number of students. 

Ji- The most affected population will be students in camps as 60 per cent of the students 

enrolled in UNRWA education system are refugees residing in camps. 

Primary Health: UNRWA provides access to primary health care for some 500,000 Palestine 

refugees in 43 UNRWA health centres and health points in the West Bank. Also, UNRWA provides 

essential preventative and curative health services through six mobile health clinics to 57 

communities in the West Bank. About 280,000 patients are treated on a quarterly basis from both 

the regular and emergency funds. 

';- UNRWA has secured sufficient funding to cover the mobile clinics health services until the 

end of August but has not yet secured funds to cover these services until the end of 2018. 

Food assistance: UNRWA provides food assistance to almost 83,000 vulnerable Palestine refugees 

and Bedouin communities in the West Bank 

';- On quarterly basis, UNRWA provides emergency food assistance through food vouchers 

to approx. 46,000 refugees living between the abject poverty line and the absolute 

poverty line (US$ 11.4/person/day). 

),.- UNRWA has secured funding to cover the food vouchers assistances for refugees living 

outside camps until June, yet is still in need of US$ 3.2 million for the second half of 2018. 

It is anticipated that the food insecurity levels of thousands of refugees would deteriorate 

if funds are not maintained. 

Income generation opportunities: Cash for work programme 

';- From January to June, approx. US$ 4.3 million were injected into the local economy 

through short-term (usually three-month) work opportunities provided to around 4,079 

refugee households living in refugee camps. UNRWA has already faced significant funding 

shortfall during 2018 which lead the Agency to create contracts to beneficiaries on a 

monthly basis. 

Jr UNRWA has no funding for this programme beyond the end of June. Around 4,000 poor 

refugee households living in WB refugee camps will be directly affected. With no other 

similar service provision, the suspension of the programme will increase the 

unemployment rate in the West Bank; it stood at 18 per cent in Ql/2018 among refugees. 

Other essential services: UNRWA provides mental health support for Bedouin communities, 

protection, and other forms of assistance to thousands of vulnerable children and women 

especially communities at risk of forcible displacement in the West Bank 

;,.. Funding for the Community Mental Health Programme runs out at the end of August. 

UNRWA tries to secure funding for the continuity of the services, yet if not secured, 

around 46 Bedouin communities will lose their mental health support. 
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NGO Programs in Gaza and the West Bank Impact by Funding Hold during 

Administrative Review- As of June 15, 2018 

Program Description (Brief) Individuals I Households impacted Staffing cuts 

If this program stops, much needed and their caregivers won't receive the 

specialized hospital services with ...... USD Psycho-social Support (PSS) services. 

1.5 million worth of hospital 800 children with cerebral palsy and 

equipment for our key non- their caregivers will be deprived of 

governmental hospital partners in Gaza community rehabilitation services 

will be lost. 

Mercy Corps is partnering with Due to lack of funds for in 

International Medical Corps on the the Gaza Health Matters 

Gaza Health Matters 2020 program, a program, Mercy Corps has 

$50M, 5 Year program seeking to laid off 3 staff since June 

improve primary, secondary health See IMC Gaza 2020: Health Matters 1, and reduced 13 others 

services available at local NGO run summary above to part-time 50%-70%. If 

facilities throughout the Gaza Strip, more funds are not 

while also supporting emergency available by August 2018, 

preparedness for anticipated these 13 staff will be laid 

humanitarian crisis from shocks or off as well. 

conflict. 

Mercy Corps is also the presumed The Positive Youth Engagement If the Positive Youth 

awardee of a new USAID funded youth program is intended to serve more Engagement program isn't 

program entitled Positive Youth than 50,000 youth ages 10-19 in Gaza funded, Mercy Corps and 

Engagement. The program, if allowed and the West Bank. If no fund are its' partners will not hire 

to proceed will serve more than 50,000 made available, this program in its 40 staff in West Bank and 

youth across the West Bank and Gaza entirety will not proceed. Gaza, and 30 local 

to access services promoting better community based 

emotional well-being, life skills organizations will not 

development and to begin planning for employ more than 100 

more positive and productive futures. local workers. 

Mercy Corps also runs Gaza Sky Geeks, 

Gaza's first start-up accelerator, coworking and tech education hub. 

Launched in 2011 together with 

Google.org, GSG is building a vibrant 

technology ecosystem and community 

of tech enthusiasts in Gaza capable of 

launching startups and serving 

outsourcing clients in the global 

market. 

CARE partners with IMC and Mercy If funds are not released, 

Corps on the Gaza Health Matters 2020 See IMC Gaza 2020: Health Matters will have to lay off 3 staff 

program to improve access and summary above in August 2018 (15% of 

availability of quality care of 200,000 country office budget) 
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NGO Programs in Gaza and the West Bank Impact by Funding Hold during 

Administrative Review- As of June 15, 2018 

Program Description (Brief) Individuals I Households impacted Staffing cuts 

individuals, 120,000 of which are 

women and girls. This program in Gaza 

builds capacity of NGOs and 

community based organizations to 

receive and manage medical supplies, 

materials and equipment in order to be 

responsive to the needs of residents of 

Gaza and to be prepared for increasing 

services at times of crisis 

American Near East Refugee Aid • 340,000 people to date Anera directly employs 51 

(AN ERA) is responding to urgent water . 185,792 person days of people on the project. 

and sanitation and other basic employment created (equivalent to 

community infrastructure needs such 9,290 short-term jobs) 

as health facilities and schools. To date 

under the project: If the project funding were to 

. 13 water networks were installed continue, 71,000 additional people 

and 6 water reservoirs were would benefit from water, sanitation, 

constructed schools and other critical facilities. 

. 5 communities have proper 

stormwater drainage systems 

. 136,370 people have improved 

access to drinking/domestic water 

. 7 schools were renovated/ 

constructed 

. 1 health clinic was constructed, 

and, 

. 45 rural and marginalized 

communities were served. 

Global Communities has partnered Since 2013 an average of 193,000 Funding is awarded by 

with WFP in the West Bank and Gaza vulnerable individuals reached each WFP with USAID funds. 

since 2004 to improve the food security year in the West Bank and Gaza. Funding has been secured 

of the region's most vulnerable through October 2018. 

populations, including the elderly, the An additional 22,000 Gazans were Funding was usually 

disabled, orphans and individuals from provided with life-saving rations provided in six-month 

women-headed households. during the 2012 air strikes. increments. However, 

Working collaboratively with WFP and since January 2018, 

other partners, Global Communities funding has been in 

conducts regular beneficiary smaller increments. 

assessments-with particular focus on 

households headed by women-to 

monitor food consumption patterns 

and track progress. These assessments, 

along with sex-disaggregated 
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Administrative Review- As of June 15, 2018 

Program Description (Brief) Individuals I Households impacted Staffing cuts 

monitoring data, enable WFP to rely on 

a beneficiary profile database that 

factors in the socio-economic 

conditions and specific needs of men, 

women and children. 

In 2011, USAID began supporting WFP's 

electronic voucher program, 

implemented by Global Communities. 

This system allows participants to 

access food assistance through 

prequalified vendors in their 

communities, where vouchers may be 

redeemed for food rations. 
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[UNRWA] take all JiOSS!"ble ~ k:> wure that no used ro fumillh usisW!ce m Clllled l'aleslille Ubel:'lltioo 

act of tel'tOl:'ism." 

" 

" 

" 

.. 

.. 

fur rollllltllzy ronlri:butiom 

to UNRWA and to devel(lp ~ps insti.Mions, ll!lli tru: U.S. intends 

toeonlinneto suppmti:he Age:acyfis itfmthms lheseeffom in 2!J18~2lll9. ln201'i, following !Ill 

extem~m rom!dmion process with a broad nmge of stskeoold«s, !he Soo~ issued a 

report oo several po&sible a\11f!nues to explore in ill1 effort to ellStll'e ''sufficient, ]l!"l!dictable, ill1d 

Sll$lalned funding" fur UNRWA. 

The United Stales and UNRWA assess that 

the Agency over the next two 

State~~ intends tu ~rupport 

molbiful!lti<m activities for 

the fbll.owing. The United 

" Developing partnitl!l!hips fuwneiAI instiwtioos. 

" C.ontinuing ou!relll:h to expand the !me of dono!'!~ who volw:rtllrily oontrihute to iht 

Vlith a f~ 011 secw:ing sllffu:ietl.t, predictable, and sustsined volm!lll'y conmlmtioos, 

my fulfillment ofpl~ This.iool:ooes ou~Teach m non-traditional. dooms alld regi<llllll 

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• COIIW!iciate pro~ reibrma in the health, edlle~~tioo, and reiJef and 

seaters, and lmlli}'Ze efficienciell ~ned through reforms. 

• Managing the Agency's 'llll'l:ddioree to~ the quality arul. profes!lionaliam of~ 

eliminate stllffredl.llldnei~, arul !IS :reliOW:Ces permit, set OOlllpel~sation 

114rily in iewds between UNRWA staff and llost 110\'<:mm.:J~t 

«~mmeru!urate with UNR WA's """ ""'l'i= 

.. 

UNRWA !Bm:ldi' to•tlnw:! to ~en tile Agt!lliey'§ m~rllalg~ernu~» 

proeefill!l. lJNRWAand lhe United States !d1'irm tbe~ of risk ~ent, 

incrl!ailing CQmdinati\m atros!l ~ and programs oo coorextual, imlitlltiooal, progl'llllUrultic, 

fiduciary, 

UNRWA to: 

and professional rillk ~mel'!t. Amon,g these e:l'forti, the United Stl.ites ~ 

• Prt>vide m\lte rob!Jst ~ing and staffing to lhe ~~of :Internal Oversight Services. 

" Continue efforts to improve the safety md secllll'ity ofUNRWA'i pers11:rmel, p.articularly 

lh~ who do not fail undertbepw:'l>iew of the UN D~ of Safety and Security, and 

including tllrol.lgh effon;s to --lheneutr!ility ofUNRWA mcmties and address violenoo 

drooling UNRWA facililies. 

" Continue .applying and strell~!l the 011g0ing cw:riculWI! revitlW prooos~~, v.•hicb eoobles 

UNRWA's edl!carors to I!Sil.consislent critetia in ~ md elll'iebing ed>Jeatio!lai 

lilla11!l'ialt>, in order to promote UN wlues and principles in UNRWA clllliSIOOll!S. 

" Cootinue to il:npl.=t ~atlont> in internal UNRWA audits arul ewlua.tioos md lhe 

UN Boord. of Auditom• reports, Ill! well 1111 illlpiDve tracking and !:!anSparency with~ to 

~kme:ll~oo of reoommenda!iont>, and~ imp1emenwioo of appropri.ate 

~a!ioos relating ro UNRWA pill forward by the UN~- G~'s BMrd of 

l!lquiry mves;tigation into iooidoots a:ffectlng the neu.tra!ity ofUNR V."A 's facilities and 

operations during lheG:mi 2014 oonllict . 

., Build upon progress to date toward$ UNRWA 's <ftnd Bargain oommitments, pa1:'1:icularly in 

relalion ro miprovil:lg ~y .ill the cos.ling ofhmoomlmilin and roooosltUCI:loo 

rel!abilitatioo ~and more SJlStemtltic acoow:llability 10 affected populal:ioos. 

m. C~~atiooold $apport 

1M United States is ~mtllitled to ccmtilluing ns ~ with UNRWA til assigt tTNRWA· 

regislered rd'ugees al;td other persont> falling .mder the mandata of O'NRWA until a comprehemive 

and !asfulgp.:moo agreement is achieved md UNRWA's matldl!te ends. Roongnizing the need for 

<mrly, !lufficient, pr«iictahle and susuined fimdiq. the United Swesc mlmds ro strive to provide 

l'lexihle and eatly oonlribuliOM ro UNRWA for ll:ie Al!llllcf's Proll)"iim:Sudget and E~cy 

~ Uruted Stlttli& is eomtllitred to providlrl& Sllbjeet to the RV!Iilabi!ity of funds, a fair sl:w'e 

(;Qllitribt!tion UNR WA's al!llUw Prowam Budget, Emergmcy Appeal (EA} f.or West Barl!.iGaza, 

ood .BA Syria Regil'>Ml Crisis kespoose, based oo j)Ut pmelioe and oe:nsistent with the Good 

.HUJ!IIIlliiarill!l Doootshlp principle of providing ~ctable and flexible :!l.mding. in additi0t1, subjmt 

to the availability of fund&, lhe United States inten& to oontinue support fo:r selooled ~ial projl'letS 

mlll1lally identified by the Unll:ed States lWd UNR W A.lm:luding continued ;~upport for the Opetatioo 

Support OffiG¢is (OS()) prngrams and the hWIIIIZl rishts; coofliot !1CSO!utioo, and t~ t:llllicu!l!lll. 

UNRWA~ Ilia! U.S. support~ onUNRWA'sdemonstratiGlloineOOsand teslllts. 
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IV. Mmdklril!f: amU'teporting 

The United Stlll:eS ~d!l UNRWA fortl!e ~ tolhe Aml1lll Orpi:tlll:i~Jml Report (AOR) 

illla perfOI'm!li1;Ce tOOl, il:!!d ~ the~ cQIIISiiltative implementation ofthl6 initiative In 

~that mganmrlional-lMel rej)Orting 011 perf~ is eMsistent with !lonol'!l' p~c 

~g requirements. &cl'lecting 1he·princlp{es ofOood Hlml!mitarian ~p. the U.S. believes 

tballhe ~zedrepoi'Mg meludoo in the AOR sh!IU!d l!l!tisty ihe ~m~jorltyofU.S. repoi'Mg 

requirements fur u.S. CO!IIlibu1ions. to ;the Program Blldget for 20lfl.2il1 !l. 

UNRWA Jntends to tootinull to provide semi,ll!llllW section 30l(c) !qiOfling to Pnt ll9 ~ Jn 

Sec!ion li oithis Ftatll.~ 

UNRWA also intends to CO!ItlnlW to provide~ sepam:te irom !he AOR oolhe following 

appeals !Ulrl special }1!0jecls, !hO!Igh the~ l'llllY refleda lwmoruzed ~to do110rs' 

~ reqlliie!mlnts ~applicable: 

" Semi-lllllmlll reporls ·on UNRWA 's Bnlergen<ly and.lor Flilllh Appealt receiving U.S. timdlng, 

including rec.omtrolllion oftheNllhx el-Bared ~ (l!WlP in Lf:bar.on. 

• Semi-llllllual ( ~. illl ®!led fur by contribution langllage, quarterly) reports on U. S.-funded 

special jpr<ljecis, inclu!ling U .SAi.mded reeOllStruction projercts in Gaza. 

• Semi"'llilllllal.repom oo visibilityeifotts, per the U.S. -UNRWA Visibility Plan. 

,. Qulll:tel'ly {ol, i!lll.'lalled for b:y oontrlbU!ioo langllllge, mlmfllly} ~diture reports oull U.S. 

ooombutio!:lll to Ilmqenoy lllldfor Flash Appeals lllld~on projects. 

" Ad!litional inibrmatioo for UNRWA 's. operatiooo inside Syria, per the U.S..-UNRW A 

enhli!lood mQnitorlng plan fur Syria. 

v. Co:mmumattion !lDd l"'lriDenhip 

In pumlit o.fmeetiog tile goals ;and aelrievmg !he :res\llts articlllated .in !his Fnmewotk, the Umted 

Stales md UNRWA remain committed to oontfuuilus int\ltllllllitlll 

leveb. The United stales hilS 

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PRM and 1:JNRW A inrend to 1:\aid annual oonsrullltioos on the shared ~ves i<len!ifled in. lllls 

F~Olt 

t<laddress il!eneeilnfPaleatinian ~ wtllllll\JNN.WA:s 

Slaws ll!:ld 'I.JNRWAJIII:el!d to consoll reguJ;rrly on policy and progmm ~- this 

Pl'lllll!oWorl:. '!'1m F~ forCOOper.ation ls in:tended to l'lmlllin in llffce~lllll:i.l ~ 31, 

2019, 

Cmmnisaionet-Generru 

lfll:itell Nalions Relief and 

Annex: Activities l!lelated to CO!ll'l:!rmmoo with U.S. Pundilllg Conilitioos .l'll:rsw!.ut to Section 3<ll{c) of 

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ANNEX: 

ACTIVITIES RELATED TO CONFORMANCE WITH U.S. FUNDING CONDITIONS 

PURSUANT TO SECTION 301(C) OF THE FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1961 

UNRWA is responsible for drafting and submitting a report to tbe United States on progress towards 

activities below semi-annually. PRM also intends to track progress towards activities below. 

General 

1. Commitment by the Agency to confonn to, consistent with UN resolutions and rules and the 

Framework for Cooperation between UNRWA and the United States for 2018-2019. conditions 

on U.S. contributions as outlined in funding agreements with the U.S. Department of State. 

2. Regular meetings or conversations, defined as occurring at least once per month, between 

UNRWA and relevant State Department officials in which section 30 !(c)-related issues are 

discussed. 

3. Regular written communication, defined as occurring at least once per month. between UNRWA 

and relevant State Department officials on section 30 I (c)-related issues 

Neutrali(J' of UNRWA Staff/Personnel 

4. Checks conducted and documented of all UNRWA staff against tbe Consolidated United Nations 

Security Council Sanctions List once every six months. 

5. Provision oflists of UNRWA sta±I members to host governments, tbe Palestinian Authority, 

Egypt and Israel on an ammal basis and other UN member states upon request. 

6. Written communication to staff, through formal staff circulars or other communication channels, 

about appropriate behavior consistent with UNRWA's neutrality rules/regulations at least once 

every year for each of UNRWA· s fi vc fields of operation and at least once every year to all staff, 

including Headquarters. 

7. Consistent witb appropriate procedural safeguards. prompt initiation of investigations upon 

receipt by the intake committee of credible information about alleged staff/persmmel misconduct. 

8. Immediate efforts taken to seek infonnation from host countries and other authorities when staff 

arc detained/convicted, etc. 

9. Requirement that all new and existing UNRWA staff complete neutrality training, and conduct 

semi -annual tracking to ensure compliance. 

Neutrality of Beneficiaries 

I 0. Checks conducted and documented ofUNRWA-registered refi.Jgees and other registered 

beneficiaries against the Consolidated United Nations Security Council Sanctions List every six 

months. 

II Upon receipt of credible information that beneficiaries have engaged in conduct of concern_ 

conduct fact -finding, assessment and denial of discretionary assistance to beneficiaries, as 

appropriate. 

Neutrali(J' of UNRWA Facilities 

12. Inspection of each UNRWA facility in the West Bank. Gaza, Lebm1on, m1d Jordm1 at least twice 

every six months by UNRWA Operations Support Officers or, in limited cases, appropriately 

trained senior UNRWA staff to ensure appropriate use and neutral appearance in accordance witb 

the Agency's standards and procedures. Additional inspections of UNRWA installations in Syria 

may be conducted by UNRWA staff. security pennitting. 

13. Immediate investigation of incidents of misuse of facilities and immediate steps taken to assure 

non-recurrence. including, in appropriate cases, through seeking third party assistm1ce. 
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Neutrality of Contractors, Vendors, and Non-State Donor., 

14. Checks conducted and documented of all contractors, vendors, and non-state donors against the 

Consolidated United Nations Security Council Sanctions List every six months. 

15. Inclusion of all appropriate Agency neutrality clauses in Agency contracts_ as outlined in the 

Regulatory Framework, with mechanisms to respond to non-compliance with neutrality clauses, 

as appropriate. 

16_ Accurate. complete, and timely details ofUNR\VA procurement contracts for goods or services 

(including construction) of aggregate annual value greater than $100,000 are made publicly 

available one month a±lcr the end of each quarter. Entries arc based on consistent usc of vendor 

names. 
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"So on the one hand we have a strong power of deterrence-the people in Gaza are terrified of 

escalation and what it would imply-and on the other hand, life there is hell, so we can't threaten 

them with 'double hell' because they are already desperate and hopeless." 

Q: So what is the answer? 

A: "I think that it is in Israel's best interest that they have hope, and want to get up in the morning 

and go to work. We were very close to a third intifada in 2015, and it was averted mainly because 

we made a clear distinction between terrorists and the general population. We fought a determined 

war against terrorism, but refrained from harming the population. In recent years, every morning, 

some 190,000 Palestinians wake up and go to work in Israel. They make a living and the 

mechanism works-education, local government That's the difference between the West Bank 

and Syria.'' 

Q: And still, they support Hamas. 

A: "Ham as has entered the people's hearts. I would very much like to root it out, but people believe 

Hamas and identify with the movement In Gaza, they behave like dictators; it's catastrophic there. 

They throw their opponents otT rooftops, they rule with an iron fist and only take care of their 

friends and families. And still, there are no protests. The street doesn't erupt because the people 

believe that everything is detennined by Allah and that it's all Israel's fault and that even if things 

are bad now, tomorrow they will be better." 

Q: Do yon envision an eruption in the future? 

A: "It is certainly tense. On the one hand, they realize that they are facing a powerful foe they 

cannot defeat On the other hand, they hate us very much and want desperate! y to hurt us. You see 

the highest motivation for this among those who live among us, in Judea and Samaria, because 

they come into direct contact with us at eye level. 

"We are able to thwart 98 percent of potential terrorist attacks, but still, they keep trying. Just last 

year, we apprehended 4,600 potential terrorists, and I have no doubt that there will be another 

4,000 the coming year, and another 4,000 in the year after that" 

Q: Is this motivation reflected in the intelligence you are able to gather? 

A: "Certainly. There is immense motivation to perpetrate terrorist attacks. The main problems are 

hatred, willingness, the culture, the religious beliefs and the profoundly painful understanding that 

they strong! y believe terrorism is a way offultilling political, social and religious desires. This is 

something that won't change for many years to come." 

Eizenkot says that while the greatest threat currently facing Israel is Iran, the most volatile threat 

is the Palestinian one, coming both from Gaza and the West Bank. "The hatred toward Israel isn't 

new; it existed 70 years ago too, and will continue to exist I 00 years from now," he says. "When 

I was asked to speak at an international counterterrorism conference, I researched and found that 
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the first terrorist attack on record in Israel was in 1851. The fundamental hatred and the drive for 

confrontation are here to stay. What has changed is that we developed a system-" 

Q: The region has changed. Today, there is a Russian presence, for example. Would the 

Russians have allowed Israel to strike a reactor in Syria? 

A: "They wouldn't have liked it, but they would have allowed it I was present at the meeting 

between the prime minister and the Russian president, and I know what was said. They made it 

clear that we are an ally and that we both have interests. We need to operate to advance our interests 

and ensure that theirs aren't harmed" 

Q: Where do the Russians draw the line? 

A: ''They have radars that identify everything. But they understand that we are not tigbting against 

them. We need to make sure not to harm Russian forces, so we built a mechanism to prevent 

friction" 

Q: Is the same true for Iran? 

A: ''It's no longer a secret that we are targeting Iranian capabilities. The Israeli public became 

aware of Iranian capabilities in Syria six months ago. As far as the IDF is concerned, this started 

years ago, and we are working to prevent it. We are also preventing Hezbollah from gaining 

advanced capabilities. That fact that Hezbollah can't hit a precise target in Israel from Lebanon is 

solely thanks to our etiorts. The Israeli public is unaware of most of these things." 

Q: What is Iran trying to achieve? 

A: "Regional hegemony. Control. In recent years, Iran has given Syria $1 billion, and every year 

it hands over $600-700 million to Hezbollah, another $100 million to Gaza and hundreds of 

millions to the Houthis in Yemen. It destabilizes the region Our goal, which we share with the 

Sunni countries of the region, is to push them back to Iran and hope that their internal reality there 

will change "The Iranian Revolutionary Guard has in etiect built a state within a state, but when 

you look at long-tenn processes in Iran, there are large factions that want to live. To a large extent, 

some of the processes unfolding there, like the clash between the religious and the secular, are 

reminiscent of processes in Israeli society. There are deep undercurrents there and I believe that 

there will be change in Iran." 

Q: How far are we willing to go to prevent Iran from establishing a foothold in Syria? 

A: "The military's policy is to take every action necessary to push them out of Syria and back to 

Iran. I think that there is room for more action, including to enlist the help of the U.S. and Europe, 

where we have seen less success. We need to explain to them that they defeated ISIS, but they 

allowed an even bigger demon to take hold in the Middle East A Shiite hegemony in Syria will 

be very bad for Israel, but it will be even worse for Europe." 

Q: Why is that? 
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A: "Because the millions of displaced Sunnis will not flee to Israel. They will flee to Turkey and 

from there, to Europe." 

Q: What is the solution in Syria? 

A: "Anyone who thinks that they will see democracies or Western lifestyles in the Middle East in 

the near future must come from another planet. They are delusional. In my view, the only options 

for an Arab culture can be a religious elite, a military elite, a monarchy or chaos. There are no 

other possibilities. Our experience teaches us that wherever the system is overthrown, we get a far 

worse alternative. It's not that the reality under [Moammar] Gadhafi or Sad dam Hussein was 

delightful, but there was rule of law. There was order. There was someone to talk to. But then you 

introduce Mecca, you end up with ISIS and a chaotic reality that will take decades to get under 

control." 

Q: Does that mean that you think Syrian President Bashar Assad should remain in power? 

A: "As an Israeli chief of statl I can't support a leader who is a murderer, and who uses chemical 

weapons on his people, and whose actions have resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths and 

more than 2 million wounded. But still, our interest is to have someone we can talk to, and to have 

functioning government mechanisms. That is true in Syria; it's true in Gaza as well. We can 

overthrow Hamas in Gaza, but what then? 

"The Syria that we knew in the past has collapsed. It won't return. Our objective is to achieve a 

solution that will be founded on ethnic identities-maybe some sort of confederation of several 

states: Alawite, Sunni, Druze. I think that would be good for Israel, because it will defuse Syria's 

contrarianism against us." 

Q: And in Gaza? 

A: "The best scenario isn't realistic to attach Gaza back to Egypt. Barring that. the choice is 

between equally bad alternatives-an indirect truce with a Hamas government or a reconciliation 

between Gaza and the West Bank. The worst scenario is that everything will break down there, 

and a chaotic reality will emerge. What we need to aspire to is a moderate government there that 

will agree demilitarize, but we are not there." 

Q: We are coming up on Israel's 70th Independence Day. Are we here to stay? And to win? 

A: "Not because it is the right thing to say, but because I know very well our power and our 

abilities. To its enemies, Israel is invincible. We have superiority in intelligence, in the air, in the 

sea, on the ground and enormous deterrence. I don't see any existential threat in the coming years, 

and our duty to future generations is to make every effort to prevent such existential threats in the 

future. But we must always remember that in order for the IDF to continue fulfilling its purpose 

and serve as Israel's insurance policy, we must have the public's support. The only potential 

setback that I can foresee is if the internal unity of the army is compromised or if our mutual 

responsibility towards each other falters." 
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Statement for the Record from Ranking Member Eliot Engel 

Markup of: Various Measures 

June 28, 2018 

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you for calling this markup, and let me thank our colleagues for all 

the hard work on the measures we're considering this morning. 

These are all good bills before us today. 

First, I'd like to discuss H. Res 256, an important endorsement of Congress's continued support for a 

strong, robust NATO alliance. This bipartisan measure is an unambiguous message to the world: the 

trans-Atlantic alliance is the bedrock of Western security. This resolution makes it clear: the U.S. 

supports our allies in central and eastern Europe, and we stand side by side with those democracies 

facing outside coercion from Russia. With the Trump Administration's constant waffling on the value 

of our alliances, it's critical that Congress send this message, and I'm pleased to support this 

resolution. 

The attempts by Russia and other countries to infiltrate democracies is a threat we know all too well 

here in the U.S. That's why I'm so pleased to be an original cosponsor of Congressman Yoho's Cyber 

Deterrence and Response Act. This measure would require the President to sanction those responsible 

for cyberattacks against our country, including attacks on our elections 

After the egregious attack on our elections in 2016-and consensus from our intelligence agencies 

that Putin plans to attack us again in 20 18-the Trump administration has been unwilling to properly 

address the cyber threat to our nation. This is outrageous. I'm pleased to see bipartisan agreement that 

Congress must step in where the White House has failed. I urge all my colleagues to join me in 

supporting this critical measure. 

Our Committee must work to protect our country and its citizens. That brings me to our next measure, 

which helps protect the lives of American citizens working at our embassies and consulates abroad. 

The Improving Embassy Design and Security Act, offered by Representatives McCaul and Kelly, 

includes a provision I authored requiring all US. government employees traveling abroad on official 

business to receive a security briefing from the State Department on potential threats. Frankly, it is 

shocking that this isn't already required. 

I thank Mr. McCaul and Ms. Kelly for including my language that requires the State Department to 

provide a strategy for establishing a physical diplomatic presence in countries where we currently 

have none. I'm disappointed that we have no US. embassies in several countries in the Eastern 

Caribbean where Venezuela and Cuba are present and active. Our absence significantly weakens U.S. 

influence in the Caribbean and elsewhere around the globe. 

Finally, let me say that while I am pleased that we are passing legislation that makes a number of 

small fixes to our approach to embassy security, the most important indicator of the priority that a 

President gives to embassy security can be seen in the annual budget Franldy, it's alarming that the 

Trump Administration has proposed massive cuts for embassy security for two years in a row. 

President Trump ran a campaign focused on the Benghazi attacks with little regard for the actual facts. 

It is outrageous that now he's in oflice, he has tried to cut funding for embassy security at every 
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possible opportunity. There is no cost too high to protect the lives of our diplomats and their families 

I wish the President understood that 

The next measure I want to discuss is the Democratic Republic of the Congo Democracy and 

Accountability Act l' d like to thank Chairman Smith and Ranking Member Bass for their leadership 

in introducing this bipartisan bill. 

For several years, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been on the brink of political and 

humanitarian crises. There are indications that President Kabila may attempt to run for a third term 

in office in violation of the country's constitution. At the same time, there have been troubling 

restrictions on freedom of expression and assembly. There are disturbing reports of Congolese 

security forces perpetrating human rights violations against peaceful protestors. 

This bill asks the Administration to continue providing robust humanitarian and development 

assistance to the people of the DRC and supporting democratic governance. This measure also 

includes language to ensure that the U.N. peacekeeping mission there has sufficient means to operate 

effectively. I hope all members join me in supporting this important legislation. 

Next, I'd like to tum to the UNRWA Accountability Act Thank you to Representatives Cicilline and 

Zeldin for their bipartisan leadership on this legislation. UNRWA, the UN agency that serves 

Palestinian refugees, is in serious need of reforms. 

While we have been working through these issues, the Trump Administration has frozen US. 

contributions to UNRWA However, the freeze is counterproductive. Without U.S. assistance, 

{)NRW A will be unable to implement those essential reforms. Schools for 250,000 children in Gaza 

will not open when the school year starts, making those children vulnerable to exploitation and 

extremism 

These cuts to UNRWA come at the same time that the Trump Administration has frozen all assistance 

to the West Bank and Gaza. This freeze will have a direct impact on Israel's security and impact our 

goals across the region. We must act on this. This legislation increases transparency and congressional 

oversight ofUNRWA and forces the Administration to report to Congress on its review of West Bank 

Gaza assistance. 

Another measure on our agenda today also deals with our ally, Israel The Israel Anti-Boycott Act, of 

which I am an original co-sponsor, is an important legislative fix to bring our anti-boycott statutes 

into the 21st century. 

Current law already prohibits U.S. companies from participating in state-sponsored boycotts of 

countries friendly to the United States. This legislation simply adds boycotts by international 

government organizations to that law. 

This bill does not infringe on free speech. It makes it clear that this prohibition only applies when a 

person is acting in an official capacity and if the intent was to comply with the international 

government organization's boycott Individual, personal speech remains protected. Period. 

While I strongly disagree with boycotts of Israel, people must retain our basic constitutional 

protections of freedom of speech. Let me be clear: No one who personally boycotts Israel or any 
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other country will be affected by this legislation I hope all members will join me in supporting this 

1neasure. 

Next, I'd like to talk about H.Con.Res. 20, which addresses the brutal murder of three US citizens in 

Serbia in 1999 and sends an important message to the Serbian government. 

Ylli, Agron and Mehmet Bytyqi were three brothers from New York State who were killed, executionstyle, by Serbian officials after they mistakenly crossed the unmarked Serbia-Kosovo border. Their 

bodies were discovered-with their hands bound behind their backs-in a mass grave in 200 I. 

Serbian President Vucic promised me two years ago that his government would bring the murderers 

to justice He promised the same to Vice President Biden. It is simply unacceptable that no Serbian 

individuals have yet been brought to justice for these murders. Apparently, there is not even a serious 

criminal investigation underway. This is appalling. 

But, sadly, the Bytyqi brothers are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to post conflict justice in 

Serbia. Last year, the Belgrade-based Humanitarian Law Center released a dossier detailing the 

murder in Kosovo, and transport and mass burial in Serbia of nearly 1,000 Kosovars. This is mass 

murder and has been raised by the U.S. government with the Serbian war crimes prosecutor, butagain- no one has been held accountable. Let's be clear: If Serbia wants to join the EU, they must 

deal with their past and prosecute those responsible for war crimes. 

As Ranking Member, I'll continue to speak on this and support legislation that addresses this injustice. 

Today's resolution makes it clear that Serbia must fully investigate the Bytyqi brothers' case and 

bring justice to the families ofthese murdered New Yorkers. U.S.-Serbia relations depend on Serbia's 

adherence to the rule of law and human rights and commitment to prosecute horrendous criminal 

cases such as this. 

Now, I'd like to thank Congresswoman Torres for introducing House Resolution 944, expressing 

Congress's support for the victims affected by the June 3rd eruption of the Fuego Volcano in 

Guatemala. As the founding co-chair of the Central America Caucus, Congresswoman Torres has 

been a tireless champion for the region's most vulnerable, and I am pleased to support her continued 

efforts to stand in solidarity with the people of Guatemala. This resolution rightly urges USAID and 

other U.S. agencies to bring to bear all resources for relief and reconstruction assistance in Guatemala. 

Our final measure before us today is the Rescuing Animals with Rewards Act. Urgent action is needed 

to counter poaching and wildlife trafficking, which are growing in scale and sophistication, and 

threaten the extinction of some of the world's most iconic species. This bipartisan legislation, 

introduced by Representatives Donovan and Castro, would enhance U.S. efforts to combat wildlife 

trafficking by authorizing rewards under the State Department's Rewards for Justice program for 

information leading to the arrest or conviction of those engaged in the illicit wildlife trade. 

These are nine good measures before us, and l urge all members to support them. 
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Statement for the Record from Representative Dina Titus 

Markup of: Various Measures 

June 28, 2018 

Thank you, Chairman Royce and Ranking Member Engel, for holding this markup today. I am a 

cosponsor of several of the bills and support all of those before us this morning. 

I would like to thank Representatives McCaul and Kelly and the Chair and Ranking Member for 

including my amendment to HR. 4969, the Improving Embassy Design and Security Act, in the 

en bloc package. 

My amendment reinforces the importance of accessibility for persons with disabilities in embassy 

design and construction. As markers of American ideals around the world, embassies and 

consulates must not only be built to meet the needs of security and functionality but also 

accessibility. 

More than one billion people around the world have a disability, with significant percentages in 

post-contlict and developing countries. 

Regardless of whether the State Department proceeds with a Standard Embassy Design or Design 

Excellence model on any particular project, the US. government must continue to build 

infrastructure that is accessible to people with disabilities and recognize the importance of doing 

so to our diplomatic and international development priorities. 

Accessible embassies help promote the employment of Americans with disabilities in diplomatic 

posts and reinforce US. leadership in advancing the rights of people with disabilities around the 

world. 

I am glad that we could include this important language to keep accessibility a key factor in 

embassy and consulate construction. 

I am also proud to cosponsor HR. 6197, the Rescuing Animals with Rewards Act, and I thank 

Representatives Donovan and Castro for their work on this legislation. 

Wildlife tratlicking generates over $10 billion annually for transnational criminal networks. As 

we on this Committee have heard, this illegal tratlicking not only decimates endangered wildlife 

species but also threatens security and fuels corruption. 

This bill moves us in the same positive direction that the END Wildlife Trafficking Act did to 

recognize wildlife tratlicking as a serious crime. It will provide another tool for the US to use in 

combating illegal wildlife trade. 

I yield back.