UPDATE: House Passes the DETERRENT ACT
Thank you for taking action in support of the DETERRENT Act.
UPDATE:
The DETERRENT Act was passed by the House of Representatives on March 27, by a vote of 241-169. In addition, the two anti-Israel amendments that Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) submitted for this bill were soundly defeated, with over 400 Representatives voting "No" on each of them!
Thank you to the thousands of RJC members who emailed their Congressmen to urge them to support the DETERRENT Act and to reject Tlaib's amendments.
See below for more information about the DETERRENT Act and watch your mailbox for news of when the Senate will take up this important legislation.
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The decades-old law requiring that American universities disclose foreign contributions badly needs an update.
It’s unacceptable that Qatar’s regime - the same one that offers shelter and protection to top Hamas terrorists - has been able to pour billions into places like Yale, Georgetown, and Cornell - much of it undisclosed!
It took an outbreak of campus demonstrations celebrating Hamas’s October 7, 2023 Jew-killing spree to get Congress focused on the problem of unaccountable foreign money flowing from adversarial countries to US colleges.
Rep. Michael Baumgartner (R-WA) and Tim Walberg (R-MI), the Chairman of the House Education Committee introduced a bill that will help immeasurably - HR 1048, the Defending Education Transparency and Ending Rogue Regimes Engaging in Nefarious Transactions (DETERRENT) Act.
The DETERRENT Act would lower the disclosure threshold from $250,000 to $50,000, close loopholes universities have used to conceal donations, and increase penalties for colleges that refuse to honor their legal obligation to be transparent.
Photo credit: "Georgetown University Office of Undergraduate Admissions" by Ajay Suresh, used under CC BY 2.0 / modified from original.