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“Text of Senate Amendment 5699” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the in the Senate section section on page S5077 on Sept. 27.
The State Department is responsibly for international relations with a budget of more than $50 billion. Tenure at the State Dept. is increasingly tenuous and it's seen as an extension of the President's will, ambitions and flaws.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
SA 5699. Mr. CRUZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the end of subtitle F of title XII, add the following:
SEC. 1276. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS UNDER SECTION 231 OF
COUNTERING AMERICA'S ADVERSARIES THROUGH
SANCTIONS ACT WITH RESPECT TO GOVERNMENT OF
NICARAGUA.
(a) Report Required.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, acting through the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the Department of State, and in coordination with the Director of National Intelligence, shall submit to Congress a report that includes an assessment, conducted after consideration of the report of the Defense Intelligence Agency entitled, ``Russia: Defense Cooperation with Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela'' and dated February 4, 2019, of whether the Government of Nicaragua has engaged in transactions described in section 231(a) of the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (22 U.S.C. 9525(a)) during the 5-year period preceding submission of the report required by this subsection.
(2) Form of report.--The report required by paragraph (1) shall be submitted in unclassified form but may include a classified annex.
(b) Imposition of Sanctions.--Notwithstanding 231(b) of the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (22 U.S.C. 9525(b)), the President shall impose 5 or more of the sanctions described in section 235 of that Act with respect to each transaction identified in the report required by subsection (a).
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