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(1) the term ‘‘Cuban military or intelligence 
service’’ includes the Ministry of the Revolutionary 
Armed Forces, and the Ministry of the Interior, of 
Cuba, and any subsidiary of either such Ministry; 
and 
(2) the term ‘‘immediate family member’’ 
means a spouse, sibling, son, daughter, parent, 
grandparent, grandchild, aunt, uncle, niece, or neph-
ew. 
SEC. 586. None of the funds made available by this 
Act or any other Act may be used for an Office of Envi-
ronmental Justice. 
SEC. 587. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to enforce the Department of Commerce 
rule entitled, ‘‘Procedures Covering Suspension of Liq-
uidation, Duties and Estimated Duties in Accord With 
Presidential Proclamation 10414’’ (87 Fed. Reg. 56868). 
SEC. 588. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to pay the salaries and expenses of per-
sonnel of the Department of Justice to negotiate or con-
clude a settlement with the Federal Government that in-
cludes terms requiring the defendant to donate or con-
tribute funds to an organization or individual. 
SEC. 589. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used to pay the salary, benefits, 
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bonuses, or expenses of any Federal officer or employee 
who fails to comply with a duly issued and valid congres-
sional subpoena, including any circumstances in which a 
Federal officer or employee does not produce documents 
in unredacted form by a date certain provided in a con-
gressional subpoena. 
SEC. 590. (a) None of the funds made available by 
this Act may be used to conduct a politically sensitive in-
vestigation until the Department of Justice establishes a 
policy requiring non-partisan career staff to oversee such 
investigations. 
(b) For the purpose of this section, the phrase ‘‘politi-
cally sensitive investigations’’ includes investigations of 
elected officials or their family members, political can-
didates or their family members, political organizations, 
religious organizations, and members of the media. 
SEC. 591. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to pay the salary, benefits, bonuses, or 
expenses of a Department of Justice employee who is 
found to have retaliated against a whistleblower or sup-
pressed an employee’s constitutional rights under the 
First Amendment. 
SEC. 592. (a) None of the funds made available by 
this Act may be used to conduct an interview in connection 
with an investigation of a Federal offense, or an investiga-
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tion in which the agency is assisting a State, local or Trib-
al law enforcement agency, unless such interview is re-
corded using electronic audio recording equipment. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall apply with respect to custo-
dial and noncustodial interviews, but shall not apply with 
respect to— 
(1) communications with confidential inform-
ants; or 
(2) interviews of non-United States persons 
conducted outside the United States. 
(c) Recordings of such interviews shall be retained 
for 10 years. 
SEC. 593. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to discourage, or implement a policy that 
serves to discourage, United States Marshals Service em-
ployees or personnel from fully enforcing section 1507 of 
title 18, United States Code. 
SEC. 594. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used be used, or transferred to another Fed-
eral agency, board, or commission to be used in further-
ance of— 
(1) any modification or publication of revised 
Merger Guidelines without the express authorization 
of Congress; 
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(2) the European Commission’s Digital Markets 
Act or in support of such Act; or 
(3) the hiring of any new employees to the 
Antitrust Division, other than to replace retired or 
departed employees, unless expressly authorized by 
Congress. 
SEC. 595. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to fund the operations or expenses of 
any Federal employee union. 
SEC. 596. (a) Section 507(d) of title 11, United 
States Code, is amended by inserting ‘‘excluding subpara-
graph (F)’’ after ‘‘(a)(8)’’. 
(b)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the 
amendment made by in section (a) shall take effect on 
the date of the enactment of this Act. 
(2) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall not 
apply with respect to cases commenced under title 11 of 
the United States Code before the date of the enactment 
of this Act. 
SEC. 597. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be made used to— 
(1) classify or facilitate the classification of any 
communications by a United States person as misin-
formation, disinformation, or malinformation; or 
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(2) partner with or fund nonprofit or other or-
ganizations that pressure or recommend private 
companies to censor lawful and constitutionally pro-
tected speech of United States persons, including 
recommending the censoring or removal of content 
on social media platforms. 
SEC. 598. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to enforce any COVID-19 vaccine man-
dates or passports. 
SPENDING REDUCTION ACCOUNT 
SEC. 599. $0 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Commerce, Justice, 
Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024’’. 
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