(B) ending on or before the date that is 60 
days after the date of the next regularly sched-
uled general election for Federal office. 
(d) WAIVER AUTHORITY.—The President may waive 
the application of any prohibition on United States per-
sons from engaging in transactions described in subsection 
(a) if— 
(1) the President— 
(A) determines that the waiver is in the 
vital national security interests of the United 
States; and 
(B) submits to the appropriate congres-
sional committees and leadership a report that 
contains the determination of the President 
under subparagraph (A); and 
(2) in the case of such waiver authority exer-
cised on or before February 1, 2021, a joint resolu-
tion of approval with respect to such determination 
is enacted into law pursuant to subsection (e). 
(e) EXPEDITED PROCEDURES FOR JOINT RESOLU-
TION OF APPROVAL.— 
(1) DEFINITION.—The term ‘‘joint resolution of 
approval’’ means only a joint resolution of either 
House of Congress, the matter after the resolving 
clause of which is as follows: ‘‘That Congress ap-
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proves the determination of the President under sub-
paragraph (A) of section 4(d)(1)(A) of the Election 
Protection and Russian Sanctions Act on ll.’’, 
with the blank space being filled with the appro-
priate date. 
(2) EXPEDITED PROCEDURES.—A joint resolu-
tion of approval introduced in either House of Con-
gress shall be considered in accordance with the pro-
cedures of section 601(b) of the International Secu-
rity Assistance and Arms Export Control Act of 
1976. If such a joint resolution should be vetoed by 
the President, the time for debate in consideration 
of the veto message on such measure shall be limited 
to twenty hours in the Senate and in the House 
shall be determined in accordance with the Rules of 
the House. 
(3) RULES
OF
HOUSE
OF
REPRESENTATIVES 
AND SENATE.—This subsection is enacted by Con-
gress— 
(A) as an exercise of the rulemaking power 
of the Senate and House of Representatives, re-
spectively, and as such it is deemed a part of 
the rules of each House, respectively, but appli-
cable only with respect to the procedure to be 
followed in that House in the case of a joint 
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resolution, and it supersedes other rules only to 
the extent that it is inconsistent with such 
rules; and 
(B) with full recognition of the constitu-
tional right of either House to change the rules 
(so far as relating to the procedure of that 
House) at any time, in the same manner, and 
to the same extent as in the case of any other 
rule of that House. 
(f) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Banking, Housing, 
and Urban Affairs, the Committee on Foreign 
Relations, the Committee on Finance, the Se-
lect Committee on Intelligence, and the Com-
mittee on Rules and Administration of the Sen-
ate; and 
(B) the Committee on Financial Services, 
the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Com-
mittee on Ways and Means, the Permanent Se-
lect Committee on Intelligence, and the Com-
mittee on House Administration of the House 
of Representatives. 
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(2) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES
AND
LEADERSHIP.—The term ‘‘appropriate 
congressional committees and leadership’’ means— 
(A) the appropriate congressional commit-
tees; 
(B) the majority leader and minority lead-
er of the Senate; and 
(C) the Speaker, the majority leader, and 
the minority leader of the House of Representa-
tives. 
(3) ELECTIONS
FOR
FEDERAL
OFFICE.—The 
term ‘‘elections for Federal office’’ has the meaning 
given such term in the Federal Election Campaign 
Act of 1971 (52 U.S.C. 30101 et seq.), except that 
such term does not include a special election. 
(4) INTERFERENCE IN ELECTIONS FOR FED-
ERAL OFFICE.—The term ‘‘interference’’, with re-
spect to an election for Federal office: 
(A) Means any of the following actions of 
the government of a foreign country, or any 
person acting as an agent of or on behalf of 
such a government, undertaken with the intent 
to influence the election: 
(i) Obtaining unauthorized access to 
election and campaign infrastructure or re-
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lated systems or data and releasing such 
data or modifying such infrastructure, sys-
tems, or data. 
(ii) Blocking or degrading otherwise 
legitimate and authorized access to election 
and campaign infrastructure or related 
systems or data. 
(iii) Contributions or expenditures for 
advertising, including on the internet. 
(iv) Using social or traditional media 
to spread significant amounts of false in-
formation to individuals in the United 
States. 
(B) Does not include communications 
clearly attributable to news and media outlets 
which are publicly and explicitly either con-
trolled or in large part funded by the govern-
ment of a foreign country. 
(5) KNOWINGLY.—The term ‘‘knowingly’’, with 
respect to conduct, a circumstance, or a result, 
means that a person has actual knowledge, or should 
have known, of the conduct, the circumstance, or the 
result. 
(6) PERSON.—The term ‘‘person’’ means an in-
dividual or entity. 
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