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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 1126 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To require the imposition of sanctions on the Popular Resistance Committees |
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| 6 | 6 | | and other associated entities, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | MARCH25, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. R |
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| 10 | 10 | | ICKETTS(for himself and Mr. SCHIFF) introduced the following bill; |
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| 11 | 11 | | which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To require the imposition of sanctions on the Popular Resist- |
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| 14 | 14 | | ance Committees and other associated entities, and for |
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| 15 | 15 | | other purposes. |
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| 16 | 16 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 17 | 17 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 18 | 18 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 19 | 19 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Accountability for Ter-4 |
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| 20 | 20 | | rorist Perpetrators of October 7th Act’’. 5 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SEC. 2. IMPOSITION OF TERRORISM SANCTIONS WITH RE-6 |
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| 22 | 22 | | SPECT TO THE POPULAR RESISTANCE COM-7 |
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| 23 | 23 | | MITTEES. 8 |
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| 24 | 24 | | (a) F |
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| 25 | 25 | | INDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 9 |
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| 29 | 29 | | (1) Since its founding in 2000, during the sec-1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | ond intifada, the Popular Resistance Committees 2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | has regularly carried out terror attacks against 3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | Israelis, Americans, and Palestinians. 4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (2) The ranks of the Popular Resistance Com-5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | mittees include former operatives from Hamas, Pal-6 |
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| 35 | 35 | | estinian Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for 7 |
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| 36 | 36 | | the Liberation of Palestine, all of which are des-8 |
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| 37 | 37 | | ignated by the United States as foreign terrorist or-9 |
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| 38 | 38 | | ganizations. 10 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (3) The Popular Resistance Committees carried 11 |
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| 40 | 40 | | out an attack in 2003 on a United States diplomatic 12 |
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| 41 | 41 | | convoy that injured a diplomat and killed 3 security 13 |
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| 42 | 42 | | guards from the United States. The Popular Resist-14 |
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| 43 | 43 | | ance Committees has also carried out the 2004 mur-15 |
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| 44 | 44 | | der of a pregnant Israeli woman and her 4 daugh-16 |
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| 45 | 45 | | ters, aged 11, 9, 7 and 2, and the executions of Pal-17 |
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| 46 | 46 | | estinians, including the former Palestinian Authority 18 |
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| 47 | 47 | | Gaza security chief. 19 |
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| 48 | 48 | | (4) The Popular Resistance Committees has 20 |
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| 49 | 49 | | been the third-largest terror group in the Gaza strip, 21 |
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| 50 | 50 | | after Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, since as 22 |
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| 51 | 51 | | early as 2011. 23 |
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| 52 | 52 | | (5) On October 7, 2023, Hamas, Palestinian Is-24 |
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| 53 | 53 | | lamic Jihad, and the Popular Resistance Committees 25 |
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| 57 | 57 | | terrorists launched a massive, unprovoked war on 1 |
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| 58 | 58 | | Israel by air, land, and sea, including firing thou-2 |
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| 59 | 59 | | sands of rockets, resulting in the deaths of 1,200 in-3 |
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| 60 | 60 | | nocent Israelis, Americans, and others, the abduc-4 |
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| 61 | 61 | | tion of 250 hostages, and widespread torture and 5 |
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| 62 | 62 | | sexual violence. 6 |
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| 63 | 63 | | (6) On October 7, 2023, the Popular Resistance 7 |
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| 64 | 64 | | Committees issued a statement claiming responsi-8 |
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| 65 | 65 | | bility for participating in the terrorist attack against 9 |
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| 66 | 66 | | Israel alongside Hamas and their affiliates, includ-10 |
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| 67 | 67 | | ing the kidnaping of soldiers of the Israel Defense 11 |
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| 68 | 68 | | Forces, and posted photos of items taken from sol-12 |
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| 69 | 69 | | diers killed and captured by the group as evidence. 13 |
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| 70 | 70 | | (7) On October 8, 2023, the Popular Resistance 14 |
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| 71 | 71 | | Committees issued a statement claiming responsi-15 |
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| 72 | 72 | | bility for dispatching kamikaze drones during the at-16 |
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| 73 | 73 | | tack on Israel. 17 |
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| 74 | 74 | | (b) I |
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| 75 | 75 | | NGENERAL.—On and after the date that is 90 18 |
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| 76 | 76 | | days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Presi-19 |
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| 77 | 77 | | dent shall impose the sanctions described under subsection 20 |
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| 78 | 78 | | (c) with respect to— 21 |
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| 79 | 79 | | (1) the Popular Resistance Committees; 22 |
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| 80 | 80 | | (2) any foreign person that is an official, agent, 23 |
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| 81 | 81 | | or affiliate of a foreign person described in para-24 |
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| 82 | 82 | | graph (1); 25 |
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| 86 | 86 | | (3) any foreign person that is owned or con-1 |
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| 87 | 87 | | trolled by a foreign person described in paragraph 2 |
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| 88 | 88 | | (1) or (2); and 3 |
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| 89 | 89 | | (4) any current or future armed organization 4 |
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| 90 | 90 | | the President determines is operating under the um-5 |
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| 91 | 91 | | brella of the Popular Resistance Committees or any 6 |
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| 92 | 92 | | other person described in this subsection. 7 |
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| 93 | 93 | | (c) S |
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| 94 | 94 | | ANCTIONSDESCRIBED.—The sanctions de-8 |
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| 95 | 95 | | scribed in this subsection are the following: 9 |
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| 96 | 96 | | (1) B |
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| 97 | 97 | | LOCKING OF PROPERTY .—The President 10 |
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| 98 | 98 | | shall exercise all of the powers granted to the Presi-11 |
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| 99 | 99 | | dent under the International Emergency Economic 12 |
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| 100 | 100 | | Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) to the extent 13 |
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| 101 | 101 | | necessary to block and prohibit all transactions in 14 |
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| 102 | 102 | | property and interests in property of a foreign per-15 |
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| 103 | 103 | | son described in subsection (b) if such property and 16 |
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| 104 | 104 | | interests in property are in the United States, come 17 |
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| 105 | 105 | | within the United States, or are or come within the 18 |
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| 106 | 106 | | possession or control of a United States person. 19 |
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| 107 | 107 | | (2) A |
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| 108 | 108 | | LIENS INADMISSABLE FOR VISAS , ADMIS-20 |
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| 109 | 109 | | SION, OR PAROLE.— 21 |
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| 110 | 110 | | (A) V |
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| 111 | 111 | | ISAS, ADMISSION, OR PAROLE.—An 22 |
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| 112 | 112 | | alien who the Secretary of State or the Sec-23 |
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| 113 | 113 | | retary of Homeland Security (or a designee of 24 |
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| 117 | 117 | | one of such Secretaries) knows, or has reason 1 |
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| 118 | 118 | | to believe, is described in subsection (b) is— 2 |
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| 119 | 119 | | (i) inadmissible to the United States; 3 |
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| 120 | 120 | | (ii) ineligible to receive a visa or other 4 |
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| 121 | 121 | | documentation to enter the United States; 5 |
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| 122 | 122 | | and 6 |
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| 123 | 123 | | (iii) otherwise ineligible to be admitted 7 |
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| 124 | 124 | | or paroled into the United States or to re-8 |
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| 125 | 125 | | ceive any other benefit under the Immigra-9 |
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| 126 | 126 | | tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et 10 |
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| 127 | 127 | | seq.). 11 |
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| 128 | 128 | | (B) C |
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| 129 | 129 | | URRENT VISAS REVOKED .— 12 |
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| 130 | 130 | | (i) I |
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| 131 | 131 | | N GENERAL.—The issuing con-13 |
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| 132 | 132 | | sular officer, the Secretary of State, or the 14 |
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| 133 | 133 | | Secretary of Homeland Security (or a des-15 |
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| 134 | 134 | | ignee of one of such Secretaries) shall, in 16 |
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| 135 | 135 | | accordance with section 221(i) of the Im-17 |
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| 136 | 136 | | migration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 18 |
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| 137 | 137 | | 1201(i)), revoke any visa or other entry 19 |
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| 138 | 138 | | documentation issued to an alien described 20 |
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| 139 | 139 | | in subparagraph (A) regardless of when 21 |
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| 140 | 140 | | the visa or other entry documentation is 22 |
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| 141 | 141 | | issued. 23 |
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| 142 | 142 | | (ii) E |
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| 143 | 143 | | FFECT OF REVOCATION .—A rev-24 |
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| 144 | 144 | | ocation under clause (i) shall take effect 25 |
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| 148 | 148 | | immediately and shall automatically cancel 1 |
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| 149 | 149 | | any other valid visa or entry documenta-2 |
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| 150 | 150 | | tion that is in the alien’s possession. 3 |
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| 151 | 151 | | (d) E |
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| 152 | 152 | | XCEPTIONS.— 4 |
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| 153 | 153 | | (1) U |
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| 154 | 154 | | NITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS AGREE -5 |
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| 155 | 155 | | MENT.—The sanctions described in subsection (c) 6 |
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| 156 | 156 | | shall not apply with respect to an alien if admitting 7 |
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| 157 | 157 | | or paroling the alien into the United States is nec-8 |
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| 158 | 158 | | essary to permit the United States to comply with 9 |
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| 159 | 159 | | the Agreement regarding the Headquarters of the 10 |
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| 160 | 160 | | United Nations, signed at Lake Success June 26, 11 |
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| 161 | 161 | | 1947, and entered into force November 21, 1947, 12 |
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| 162 | 162 | | between the United Nations and the United States, 13 |
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| 163 | 163 | | or other applicable international obligations. 14 |
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| 164 | 164 | | (2) E |
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| 165 | 165 | | XCEPTION FOR INTELLIGENCE , LAW EN-15 |
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| 166 | 166 | | FORCEMENT, AND NATIONAL SECURITY ACTIVI -16 |
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| 167 | 167 | | TIES.—The sanctions in subsection (c) shall not 17 |
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| 168 | 168 | | apply to any authorized intelligence, law enforce-18 |
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| 169 | 169 | | ment, or national security activities of the United 19 |
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| 170 | 170 | | States. 20 |
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| 171 | 171 | | (e) P |
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| 172 | 172 | | ENALTIES.—The penalties provided for in sub-21 |
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| 173 | 173 | | sections (b) and (c) of section 206 of the International 22 |
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| 174 | 174 | | Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) shall 23 |
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| 175 | 175 | | apply to a person that violates, attempts to violate, con-24 |
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| 176 | 176 | | spires to violate, or causes a violation of this section, regu-25 |
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| 180 | 180 | | lations promulgated to carry out this section, or the sanc-1 |
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| 181 | 181 | | tions imposed pursuant to this section to the same extent 2 |
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| 182 | 182 | | that such penalties apply to a person that commits an un-3 |
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| 183 | 183 | | lawful act described in section 206(a) of that Act. 4 |
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| 184 | 184 | | (f) I |
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| 185 | 185 | | MPLEMENTATION AUTHORITY.—The President 5 |
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| 186 | 186 | | may exercise all authorities provided to the President 6 |
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| 187 | 187 | | under sections 203 and 205 of the International Emer-7 |
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| 188 | 188 | | gency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702 and 1704) 8 |
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| 189 | 189 | | for purposes of carrying out this section. 9 |
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| 190 | 190 | | (g) W |
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| 191 | 191 | | AIVER.—The President may, for 1 or more peri-10 |
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| 192 | 192 | | ods of not more than 180 days each, waive the application 11 |
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| 193 | 193 | | of sanctions imposed with respect to a foreign person 12 |
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| 194 | 194 | | under this section if the President certifies to the appro-13 |
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| 195 | 195 | | priate committees of Congress, not later than 15 days be-14 |
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| 196 | 196 | | fore such waiver takes effect, that the waiver is vital to 15 |
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| 197 | 197 | | the national security interests of the United States. 16 |
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| 198 | 198 | | (h) T |
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| 199 | 199 | | ERMINATION.—The President may terminate 17 |
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| 200 | 200 | | sanctions imposed with respect to any foreign person 18 |
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| 201 | 201 | | under this section if the President certifies to the appro-19 |
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| 202 | 202 | | priate committees of Congress that— 20 |
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| 203 | 203 | | (1) such foreign person is no longer engaging in 21 |
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| 204 | 204 | | acts of terrorism, as defined for purposes of Execu-22 |
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| 205 | 205 | | tive Order 13224 (relating to blocking property and 23 |
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| 206 | 206 | | prohibiting transactions with persons who commit, 24 |
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| 207 | 207 | | threaten to commit, or support terrorism); or 25 |
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| 211 | 211 | | (2) with respect to a foreign person that is an 1 |
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| 212 | 212 | | entity, such entity has wound down. 2 |
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| 213 | 213 | | SEC. 3. REPORT ON THE DESIGNATION OF THE LIONS’ DEN 3 |
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| 214 | 214 | | AND THE POPULAR RESISTANCE COMMIT-4 |
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| 215 | 215 | | TEES AS SPECIALLY DESIGNATED GLOBAL 5 |
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| 216 | 216 | | TERRORISTS. 6 |
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| 217 | 217 | | (a) F |
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| 218 | 218 | | INDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 7 |
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| 219 | 219 | | (1) Since its founding in 2022, Lions’ Den has 8 |
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| 220 | 220 | | carried out a number of terror attacks including 9 |
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| 221 | 221 | | more than 61 shooting attacks against Israeli sol-10 |
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| 222 | 222 | | diers and civilians. 11 |
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| 223 | 223 | | (2) The ranks of the Lions’ Den include former 12 |
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| 224 | 224 | | operatives from Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, 13 |
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| 225 | 225 | | and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Pal-14 |
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| 226 | 226 | | estine, all of which are designated foreign terrorist 15 |
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| 227 | 227 | | organizations. 16 |
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| 228 | 228 | | (3) Lions’ Den receives funds from designated 17 |
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| 229 | 229 | | foreign terrorist organizations Hamas and Pales-18 |
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| 230 | 230 | | tinian Islamic Jihad. 19 |
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| 231 | 231 | | (b) I |
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| 232 | 232 | | NITIALREPORT.— 20 |
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| 233 | 233 | | (1) R |
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| 234 | 234 | | EPORT REQUIRED .—Not later than 90 21 |
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| 235 | 235 | | days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 22 |
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| 236 | 236 | | Secretary of State shall submit to the appropriate 23 |
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| 237 | 237 | | committees of Congress— 24 |
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| 238 | 238 | | (A) a detailed report on whether— 25 |
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| 242 | 242 | | (i) the Lions’ Den meets— 1 |
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| 243 | 243 | | (I) the criteria for designation as 2 |
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| 244 | 244 | | a specially designated global terrorist 3 |
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| 245 | 245 | | pursuant to Executive Order 13224 4 |
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| 246 | 246 | | (relating to blocking property and 5 |
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| 247 | 247 | | prohibiting transactions with persons 6 |
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| 248 | 248 | | who commit, threaten to commit, or 7 |
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| 249 | 249 | | support terrorism); and 8 |
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| 250 | 250 | | (II) the criteria for designation 9 |
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| 251 | 251 | | as a foreign terrorist organization 10 |
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| 252 | 252 | | under section 219 of the Immigration 11 |
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| 253 | 253 | | and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189); 12 |
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| 254 | 254 | | and 13 |
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| 255 | 255 | | (ii) the Popular Resistance Commit-14 |
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| 256 | 256 | | tees meet the criteria for designation as a 15 |
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| 257 | 257 | | specially designated global terrorist pursu-16 |
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| 258 | 258 | | ant to Executive Order 13224; and 17 |
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| 259 | 259 | | (B) if the Secretary reaches a negative de-18 |
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| 260 | 260 | | termination with respect to any entity under 19 |
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| 261 | 261 | | subparagraph (A), a detailed justification as to 20 |
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| 262 | 262 | | which criteria have not been met. 21 |
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| 263 | 263 | | (2) F |
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| 264 | 264 | | ORM.—The report required by paragraph 22 |
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| 265 | 265 | | (1) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may 23 |
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| 266 | 266 | | include a classified annex. 24 |
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| 270 | 270 | | (c) ONGOINGDETERMINATIONS REQUIRED.—Not 1 |
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| 271 | 271 | | later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this 2 |
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| 272 | 272 | | Act, and every 2 years thereafter, the Secretary of State 3 |
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| 273 | 273 | | shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress 4 |
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| 274 | 274 | | a report that— 5 |
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| 275 | 275 | | (1) identifies each new entity operating under 6 |
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| 276 | 276 | | the umbrella of the Popular Resistance Committees, 7 |
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| 277 | 277 | | or any successor of the Popular Resistance Commit-8 |
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| 278 | 278 | | tees; 9 |
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| 279 | 279 | | (2) includes a determination as to whether each 10 |
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| 280 | 280 | | such entity meets the criteria— 11 |
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| 281 | 281 | | (A) for designation as a specially des-12 |
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| 282 | 282 | | ignated global terrorist pursuant to Executive 13 |
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| 283 | 283 | | Order 13224 (relating to blocking property and 14 |
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| 284 | 284 | | prohibiting transactions with persons who com-15 |
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| 285 | 285 | | mit, threaten to commit, or support terrorism); 16 |
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| 286 | 286 | | (B) for designation as a foreign terrorist 17 |
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| 287 | 287 | | organization under section 219 of the Immigra-18 |
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| 288 | 288 | | tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189); or 19 |
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| 289 | 289 | | (C) for the imposition of sanctions under 20 |
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| 290 | 290 | | section 2; and 21 |
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| 291 | 291 | | (3) provides a detailed justification in the event 22 |
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| 292 | 292 | | that the Secretary identifies a new entity pursuant 23 |
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| 293 | 293 | | to paragraph (1), but does not determine that the 24 |
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| 294 | 294 | | entity meets the criteria for designation as a spe-25 |
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| 298 | 298 | | cially designated global terrorist or a foreign ter-1 |
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| 299 | 299 | | rorist organization or for imposition of sanctions 2 |
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| 300 | 300 | | under section 2. 3 |
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| 301 | 301 | | SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS. 4 |
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| 302 | 302 | | In this Act: 5 |
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| 303 | 303 | | (1) A |
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| 304 | 304 | | DMITTED; ALIEN; LAWFULLY ADMITTED 6 |
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| 305 | 305 | | FOR PERMANENT RESIDENCE .—The terms ‘‘admit-7 |
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| 306 | 306 | | ted’’, ‘‘alien’’, and ‘‘lawfully admitted for permanent 8 |
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| 307 | 307 | | residence’’ have the meanings given those terms in 9 |
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| 308 | 308 | | section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act 10 |
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| 309 | 309 | | (8 U.S.C. 1101). 11 |
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| 310 | 310 | | (2) A |
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| 311 | 311 | | PPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CON -12 |
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| 312 | 312 | | GRESS.—The term ‘‘appropriate committees of Con-13 |
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| 313 | 313 | | gress’’ means— 14 |
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| 314 | 314 | | (A) the Committee on Foreign Relations 15 |
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| 315 | 315 | | and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Sen-16 |
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| 316 | 316 | | ate; and 17 |
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| 317 | 317 | | (B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and 18 |
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| 318 | 318 | | the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of 19 |
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| 319 | 319 | | Representatives. 20 |
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| 320 | 320 | | (3) E |
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| 321 | 321 | | NTITY.—The term ‘‘entity’’ means a part-21 |
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| 322 | 322 | | nership, association, corporation, or other organiza-22 |
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| 323 | 323 | | tion, group, or subgroup. 23 |
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| 324 | 324 | | (4) F |
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| 325 | 325 | | OREIGN PERSON.—The term ‘‘foreign per-24 |
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| 326 | 326 | | son’’— 25 |
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| 330 | 330 | | (A) means an individual or entity that is 1 |
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| 331 | 331 | | not a United States person; and 2 |
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| 332 | 332 | | (B) does not include the government of a 3 |
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| 333 | 333 | | foreign country. 4 |
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| 334 | 334 | | (5) F |
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| 335 | 335 | | OREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION .—The 5 |
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| 336 | 336 | | term ‘‘foreign terrorist organization’’ means an enti-6 |
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| 337 | 337 | | ty designated as a foreign terrorist organization pur-7 |
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| 338 | 338 | | suant to section 219 of the Immigration and Nation-8 |
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| 339 | 339 | | ality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189). 9 |
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| 340 | 340 | | (6) U |
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| 341 | 341 | | NITED STATES PERSON .—The term 10 |
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| 342 | 342 | | ‘‘United States person’’ means— 11 |
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| 343 | 343 | | (A) an individual who is a United States 12 |
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| 344 | 344 | | citizen or an alien lawfully admitted for perma-13 |
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| 345 | 345 | | nent residence to the United States; 14 |
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| 346 | 346 | | (B) an entity organized under the laws of 15 |
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| 347 | 347 | | the United States or any jurisdiction within the 16 |
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| 348 | 348 | | United States, including a foreign branch of 17 |
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| 349 | 349 | | such an entity; or 18 |
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| 350 | 350 | | (C) any person in the United States. 19 |
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