[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 753 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 753

 To require a separate, unclassified statement of the aggregate amount 
             of budget outlays for intelligence activities.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 13, 1997

 Mr. Conyers (for himself, Mr. Miller of California, Mr. Dellums, Mr. 
 Oberstar, Mr. Bonior, Mr. Farr of California, Ms. Pelosi, Mr. Stark, 
Ms. Rivers, Mr. Gutierrez, Mr. Hinchey, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Filner, Mr. 
  DeFazio, Ms. Slaughter, Mr. Nadler, Ms. McKinney, Mr. Watt of North 
Carolina, Mr. Yates, Mrs. Lowey, Mr. Olver, Ms. Eshoo, Mr. Pastor, and 
Ms. Velazquez) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
     Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on 
   Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require a separate, unclassified statement of the aggregate amount 
             of budget outlays for intelligence activities.

    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 ``Intelligence Budget Accountability 
Act of 1997''.

SEC. 2. PURPOSE.

    It is the purpose of this Act to require the publication of the 
aggregate intelligence budget figure to provide a more thorough 
accounting of Government expenditures as required by article I, section 
9, clause 7 of the Constitution.

SEC. 3. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds that--
            (1) article I, section 9, clause 7 of the Constitution 
        states that ``No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in 
        Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular 
        Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all 
        public Money shall be published from time to time.'';
            (2) during the Cold War the United States did not provide 
        to the American people a ``regular Statement and Account of the 
        .  .  . Expenditures'' for intelligence activities;
            (3) the failure to provide to the American people a 
        statement of the total amount of expenditures on intelligence 
        activities prevents them from participating in an informed, 
        democratic decision concerning the appropriate level for such 
        expenditures; and
            (4) the Report of the Commission on the Roles and 
        Capabilities of the United States Intelligence Community 
        recommended the disclosure of ``the total amount of money 
        appropriated for intelligence activities during the current 
        fiscal year and the total amount being requested for the next 
        fiscal year''.

SEC. 4. ANNUAL STATEMENT OF THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF INTELLIGENCE 
              EXPENDITURES FOR THE PRECEDING FISCAL YEAR.

    Section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph:
            ``(31) a separate, unclassified statement of the 
        appropriations and proposed appropriations for the current 
        fiscal year, and the amount of appropriations requested for the 
        fiscal year for which the budget is submitted, for national and 
        tactical intelligence activities, including activities carried 
        out under the budget of the Department of Defense to collect, 
        analyze, produce, disseminate, or support the collection of 
        intelligence.''.
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