Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 3202) to prohibit any official action to recognize or normalize relations with any Government of Syria that is led by Bashar al-Assad, and for other purposes, as amended. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The text of the bill is as follows: H.R. 3202 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 ``Assad Regime Anti- Normalization Act of 2023''. SEC. 2. MODIFICATIONS TO THE CAESAR SYRIA CIVILIAN PROTECTION ACT. (a) Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act.--Section 7412 of the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2019 (title LXXIV of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020; 22 U.S.C. 8791 note) is amended-- (1) in subsection (a)-- (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``the President shall impose'' and all that follows through the end of the paragraph and inserting ``the President--'' ``(A) shall impose the sanctions described in subsection (b) with respect to a foreign person that the President determines-- ``(i) knowingly engages, on or after such date of enactment, in an activity described in paragraph (2); ``(ii) is an adult family member of a foreign person described in clause (i), unless the President determines there is clear and convincing evidence that such adult family member has disassociated themselves from the foreign person described in such clause and has no hi…”