Text of Senate Amendment 96

Text of Senate Amendment 96

Congressional Record, Volume 171 Issue 18 (Tuesday, January 28, 2025) [Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 18 (Tuesday, January 28, 2025)] [Senate] [Page S436] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] SA 96. Mr. CRUZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 23, to impose sanctions with respect to the International Criminal Court engaged in any effort to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute any protected person of the United States and its allies; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: Beginning on page 4, strike line 21 and all that follows through page 5, line 5, and insert the following: (3) the sanctions described in subsection (b)(1) with respect to the International Criminal Court; and (4) a prohibition on the opening or the maintaining in the United States of a correspondent or payable-through account by any foreign financial institution determined by the President to have knowingly conducted or facilitated a significant transaction or transactions on behalf of the International Criminal Court or any person whose property is blocked under subsection (b)(1). (b) Sanctions Described.--The sanctions described in this subsection with respect to a foreign person described in subsection (a) are the following: (1) Property blocking.--The President shall exercise all of the powers granted by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) to the extent necessary to block and prohibit all transactions in all property and interests in property of any foreign person described in paragraph (1) or (3) of subsection (a) if such property and interests in ______