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James M. Inhofe was mentioned in Text of Senate Amendment 5657 on page S5062 covering the 2nd Session of the 117th Congress published on Sept. 27 in the Congressional Record.

The publication is reproduced in full below:

SA 5657. Mr. KENNEDY 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. PROHIBITION ON ALLOCATIONS OF SPECIAL DRAWING

RIGHTS AT INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND FOR

PERPETRATORS OF GENOCIDE AND STATE SPONSORS OF

TERRORISM WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL AUTHORIZATION.

Section 6(b) of the Special Drawing Rights Act (22 U.S.C. 286q(b)) is amended by adding at the end the following:

``(3) Unless Congress by law authorizes such action, neither the President nor any person or agency shall on behalf of the United States vote to allocate Special Drawing Rights under article XVIII, sections 2 and 3, of the Articles of Agreement of the Fund to a member country of the Fund, if the government of the member country has--

``(A) committed genocide at any time during the 10-year period ending with the date of the vote; or

``(B) been determined by the Secretary of State, as of the date of the enactment of the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023, to have repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism, for purposes of--

``(i) section 1754(c)(1)(A)(i) of the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 (50 U.S.C. 4813(c)(1)(A)(i));

``(ii) section 620A of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961

(22 U.S.C. 2371);

``(iii) section 40(d) of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2780(d)); or

``(iv) any other provision of law.''.

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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 156

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