[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6060 Introduced in House (IH)]
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118th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 6060
To prohibit any United States assistance from being made available for
programs, projects, or activities located in Palestinian-controlled
areas of Judea and Samaria or Gaza, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
October 25, 2023
Mr. Ogles (for himself, Mr. Donalds, Mr. Norman, Mr. Weber of Texas,
Mr. DesJarlais, Ms. Boebert, Mrs. Miller of Illinois, and Mr. Moore of
Alabama) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Foreign Affairs
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A BILL
To prohibit any United States assistance from being made available for
programs, projects, or activities located in Palestinian-controlled
areas of Judea and Samaria or Gaza, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Defunding Israel's Enemies Act''.
SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS.
It is the sense of Congress that--
(1) the brutal assault by Hamas and other Palestinian
terrorist groups against the State of Israel, beginning on
October 7, 2023, constitutes a decades-long continuation of
efforts to irreparably undermine the sovereignty of the State
of Israel;
(2) the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (referred to as
the ``IRGC''), a paramilitary militant organization designated
as a foreign terrorist organization on April 15, 2019, has been
cited by Hamas as actively engaging in planning for the land,
sea, and air invasions of the State of Israel, and as of
October 15, 2023, at least 30 United States citizens are dead
and at least 13 are missing as a result of these attacks;
(3) on September 11, 2023, the Biden administration chose
to facilitate the transfer of $6,000,000,000 in funds to Tehran
as part of a prisoner exchange, allowing the Iranian regime to
potentially repurpose other funds for IRGC-supported terrorist
activities;
(4) on September 28, 2023, in contradiction of United
States and Israeli security interests, 81 Members of Congress
voted against an amendment to prohibit the use of funds to
delist the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign
terrorist organization;
(5) as Israelis work to defend their nation against an
unprovoked and evil assault, it is essential to United States
and Israeli security interests that United States-elected
officials demonstrate unmitigated unity in support for Israel.
To this end, the Biden administration should--
(A) fully apply and preferably expand the funding
limitation in the Taylor Force Act (22 U.S.C. 2378c-1)
to ensure that United States taxpayer dollars are not
working against Israel's heroic efforts; and
(B) in tandem with partners overseas, ensure that
the terrorist organizations waging war against Israel
are regularly denied financing;
(6) until such time as Israel's enemies are fully defeated,
no ally or partner of the United States should, either directly
or indirectly, provide support for Hezbollah, the Palestinian
Authority, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and any
successor or affiliated organizations, to include Hamas, the
Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Lions' Den;
(7) as President George W. Bush remarked before a joint
session of Congress in September 2001, ``Every nation, in every
region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or
you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation
that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded
by the United States as a hostile regime.'';
(8) several nations, including Saudi Arabia, Iraq,
Pakistan, Turkey, Tunisia, Oman, and Kuwait have issued
statements of condemnation against Israel. Qatar's Ministry of
Foreign Affairs also issued a statement that implicated Israel
as ``solely responsible for the ongoing escalation''. In that
statement, the Qataris specifically stressed their ``unwavering
stance on the justice of the Palestinian cause'' and for the
``international community to compel Israel to cease its blatant
violation of international law'';
(9) nations that have historically benefitted from robust
United States support should exercise extreme caution in
undermining the United States greatest ally in the Middle East;
(10) Israel has regularly and repeatedly offered the
Palestinians their own state and the ability to live side-by-
side in peace with their neighbors;
(11) the Palestinian people have largely responded to such
overtures by attacking Israel's right to exist; and
(12) if Palestinian terrorists refuse to accept Israel's
right to exist, and instead continue to resort to the senseless
murder of countless Israeli civilians, the only tenable
solution is a one-state solution with Jerusalem as the
undivided capital of the State of Israel.
SEC. 3. PROHIBITION OF ASSISTANCE TO THE JUDEA AND SAMARIA AREA AND
GAZA.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no Federal funds may be
made available for any program, project, or activity located in any
Palestinian-controlled area of Judea and Samaria or Gaza until the
President of the United States, acting through the Secretary of State,
certifies in writing to the appropriate congressional committees that
those responsible for the October 2023 attack against the State of
Israel (including Hamas and Hezbollah) have agreed to a permanent
cessation of hostilities.
SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act, the term ``appropriate congressional committees''
means--
(1) the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on
Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives; and
(2) the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on
Foreign Relations of the Senate.
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