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“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Well done, my friend, from New York for opening and closing. Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend and colleague, Congressman Waltz, for his leadership on this. This is a good bill. This is something we need to do. We need to force harmonization, coordination on the interagency. We have a lot of different lists. We have got the Treasury's Chinese Military-Industrial Complex List. We have the entity list at Commerce BIS. We have the Military End User List at Commerce. We have the 1260H list at DOD. We need this bill. We need better coordination. I thank Chairman McCaul and Armed Services Committee Chairman Rogers for their leadership in moving this bill to the floor today. I hope that all of our colleagues will join us in ensuring that U.S. sanctions remain a powerful tool for defending our interests and values against those who seek to undermine democracy, security, and human rights around the world. Until we get outbound sanctions legislation, this is a good placeholder. Mr. Speaker, I urge unanimous support for H.R. 5613, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Barr) that the House suspend the rules and pass the bill, H.R. 5613, as amended. The question was taken; and (two-thirds being in the affirmative) the rules were suspended and the bill, as amended, was passed. A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.…”