[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 802 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 802

    To prohibit Senegal from receiving certain forms of development 
assistance for a two-year period and make available such assistance to 
               Rwanda and Uganda, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 1, 2017

 Mr. Meadows introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
    To prohibit Senegal from receiving certain forms of development 
assistance for a two-year period and make available such assistance to 
               Rwanda and Uganda, 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 ``Aid to Allies Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) The United States established diplomatic relations with 
        Senegal in 1960, when it gained independence from France and 
        after the disbanding of the Mali Federation.
            (2) As of 2014, the United States had provided Senegal with 
        a cumulative total of $2,500,000,000 in foreign assistance.
            (3) In 2009, Senegal signed a compact with the Millennium 
        Challenge Corporation that spanned from 2010 to 2015 and 
        provided $540,000,000 to support large-scale transportation and 
        water infrastructure projects.
            (4) In December 2015, the Millennium Challenge Corporation 
        selected Senegal as eligible to develop a second compact.
            (5) The Administration's fiscal year 2017 budget request 
        for bilateral assistance to Senegal totaled $103,100,000, 
        including--
                    (A) $56,000,000 for global health programs;
                    (B) $44,800,000 for development assistance;
                    (C) $1,000,000 for international military education 
                and training;
                    (D) $1,000,000 for nonproliferation, antiterrorism, 
                demining and related programs; and
                    (E) $300,000 for foreign military financing.
            (6) On December 23, 2016, Senegal was one of four co-
        sponsors of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 
        (2016), which described the Israeli neighborhoods in the West 
        Bank as illegally occupied. The resolution was adopted by a 
        vote of 14-0 with the United States abstaining.

SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    It is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) in periods of constrained resources and when the 
        national debt is nearly $20,000,000,000,000, all budget items 
        deserve scrutiny, especially foreign aid dollars;
            (2) rather than continuing to assist foreign governments 
        that undermine our foreign allies, those dollars would be 
        better spent in countries that support and defend the shared 
        interests of the American people; and
            (3) the Board of the Millennium Challenge Corporation 
        should not enter into any compact with Senegal under section 
        609 of the Millennium Challenge Act of 2003 (22 U.S.C. 7708) 
        until the Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Challenge 
        Corporation submits to Congress a report regarding the 
        eligibility of Senegal to meet the criteria specified in 
        section 607(b) of such Act (22 U.S.C. 7706(b)) that considers 
        the impact on such eligibility of--
                    (A) Senegal's co-sponsorship of United Nations 
                Security Council Resolution 2334 (2016); and
                    (B) other governance issues with respect to 
                Senegal.

SEC. 4. LIMITATION ON EXPENDITURES THROUGH DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE 
              PROGRAMS.

    (a) In General.--For the two-year period beginning on the date of 
the enactment of this Act, no funds may be obligated or expended for 
assistance to Senegal authorized under part I of the Foreign Assistance 
Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.) except for assistance through a 
program described in subsection (c).
    (b) Reprogramming of Withheld Funds.--Funds withheld by reason of 
subsection (a) may be made available for assistance to Rwanda or to 
Uganda authorized under part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
(22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.), in accordance with the procedures applicable 
to reprogramming notifications under section 634A of such Act (22 
U.S.C. 2394-1).
    (c) Excepted Programs.--The programs described in this subsection 
are the following:
            (1) The President's Malaria Initiative.
            (2) The Feed the Future program.
            (3) The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
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