[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 104 (Tuesday, July 15, 2003)]
[House]
[Pages H6725-H6784]
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    FOREIGN RELATIONS AUTHORIZATION ACT, FISCAL YEARS 2004 AND 2005

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 316 and rule 
XVIII, the Chair declares the House in the Committee of the Whole House 
on the State of the Union for the consideration of the bill, H.R. 1950.

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                     In the Committee of the Whole

  Accordingly, the House resolved itself into the Committee of the 
Whole House on the State of the Union for the consideration of the bill 
(H.R. 1950) to authorize appropriations for the Department of State for 
the fiscal years 2004 and 2005, to authorize appropriations under the 
Arms Export Control Act and the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for 
security assistance for fiscal years 2004 and 2005, and for other 
purposes, with Mr. Quinn in the chair.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to the rule, the bill is considered as having 
been read the first time.
  Under the rule, the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde) and the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Lantos) each will control 30 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde).
  Mr. HYDE. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of H.R. 1950, the Foreign Relations 
and Security Assistance Bill. Mr. Chairman, this bipartisan bill, which 
is co-sponsored by my good friend, the gentleman from California (Mr. 
Lantos), authorizes the funding and activities of the Department of 
State for 2 fiscal years, 2004 and 2005. This bill is focused on 
authorities necessary to operate the State Department and its overseas 
facilities. In addition, it includes a modernization of the defense 
trade and security assistance authorities and missile proliferation 
policy and laws.
  The accounts covered in this bill are funded at or above the 
President's fiscal year 2004 budget request. The President's request 
for these accounts is approximately $14.3 billion. The total 
authorization for this bill, including the State Department operation 
accounts and the security assistance provisions for fiscal 2004, is 
$15.2 billion. The increases will fund additional refugee assistance, 
international broadcasting and a more robust public diplomacy program.
  The proposed amount for fiscal 2005 is approximately the same as that 
of fiscal 2004 with some modest percentage increases for typical cost-
of-living adjustments. A significant portion of these increases reflect 
the need to improve the effectiveness of our public diplomacy programs 
and our international broadcasting as well as to strengthen our 
democracy-building programs overseas.
  H.R. 1950 also incorporates the Public Diplomacy Bill, H.R. 3969, the 
Freedom Promotion Act of 2002, that was approved by the House during 
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Congress. The provisions in this act are focused on enhancing the role 
of public diplomacy in our foreign policy and specifically place the 
responsibility for the formulation and execution of these programs on 
the Secretary of State. These provisions also authorize funding for 
student and other exchanges, as well as for a number of other public 
diplomacy programs, with a focus on countries with predominantly Muslim 
populations.
  H.R. 1950 includes a much-needed reorganization of the decision-
making process of our international broadcasting efforts. It would 
authorize $657 million for fiscal year 2004 and $651 million for fiscal 
2005 for the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which is responsible for 
the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, Radio Free 
Asia, and Radio/TV Marti.
  It also includes the request from the Broadcasting Board of Governors 
regarding the establishment of a separate grantee to run the New Middle 
East Television and Radio Network. This new network will add 24 hours a 
day TV and radio broadcasts to the Middle East and thereby greatly 
contribute to an enhancement of our efforts to combat the 
misinformation and propaganda that contribute to the rising anti-
American sentiment in the region.
  Construction, maintenance, and security for our 260 embassies, 
consulates and various other posts around the world continue to be a 
top priority. To that end, we have fully funded the State request in 
that area while also encouraging the establishment of a cost-share 
program. This cost-sharing program is designed to collect funds from 
each agency that has staff stationed at a U.S. embassy or consulate.

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  These funds will be used to supplement the construction costs of new 
facilities.
  At the appropriate time, I intend to offer an amendment that will add 
H.R. 2441, the Millennium Challenge Account Authorization and Peace 
Corps Expansion Act of 2003, to this bill. Recently reported by the 
Committee on International Relations, this bill advances the 
President's foreign assistance initiative and enjoys bipartisan 
support. In March of last year, President Bush proposed the further 
expansion of United States foreign assistance through the establishment 
of the Millennium Challenge Account, now known as MCA. He did so in a 
revolutionary manner, by proposing a new and additional assistance 
program only for those countries that meet certain standards of 
respecting human rights, investing in the future of their people and 
promoting economic opportunity and freedom.
  With this proposal, the President has issued a challenge to help 
those less fortunate, the poorest of the poor, to promote universal 
human rights and values around the world, and be part of the spread of 
democracy and freedom worldwide.
  This legislation also includes a provision I authored more than a 
decade ago known as the Foreign Aid Effectiveness Act. This provision 
requires the President to describe the actual results of U.S. foreign 
assistance relative to the goals and to identify the most and the least 
successful foreign assistance programs.
  The Millennium Challenge Account Act authorizes 3 years of funding, 
$1.3 billion in fiscal 2004, $3 billion in fiscal 2005, and $5 billion 
in fiscal 2006.
  The President, in his State of the Union address January 2002, 
announced his goal of doubling the size of the Peace Corps by 2007. As 
the U.S. fights global terrorism, extremism and forces which are 
inimical to our way of life, we can and must fight on many fronts to 
protect our interests, promote our values and provide hope to captive, 
destitute and vulnerable people across the globe.
  This legislation makes amendments to the Peace Corps Act in support 
of the goal announced by the President of doubling the number of Peace 
Corps volunteers to 14,000 by the year 2007. It authorizes a gradual 
expansion of the budget of the Peace Corps from $366.8 million in 
fiscal 2004 to $499.4 million in fiscal 2007.
  Since its establishment in 1961, more than 168,000 volunteers have 
served in 136 different countries throughout the globe. Currently, 
there are approximately 7,000 volunteers in 70 different countries.
  I very much appreciate the bipartisan cooperation and leadership that 
we have received from the gentleman from California (Mr. Lantos), the 
ranking Democrat on this committee, in developing this legislation; and 
I hope we can continue this bipartisan approach on the floor today.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Chairman. I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I rise in strong support of H.R. 1950, the foreign relations 
authorization bill for fiscal years 2004 and 2005 as it was reported 
out of committee. Mr. Chairman, this is an excellent bill; and I am 
proud to have cosponsored it with my good friend, the gentleman from 
Illinois (Mr. Hyde), the chairman; and I want to pay public tribute to 
his extraordinary leadership of the Committee on International 
Relations.
  Mr. Chairman, every single item that our committee deals with 
represents the daily menu of all our international and domestic media: 
Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, the Middle East, Pakistan, Colombia, North 
Korea, China, Russia, Cuba, NATO, Europe, Africa. They are all part of 
this legislation, and our committee and its staff deserves commendation 
for being able to deal with these issues in a bipartisan fashion.
  I am very pleased that our bill fully funds the administration's 
request for the State Department and contains many of the provisions 
that Secretary of State Colin Powell has requested to help him better 
manage the Department of State. I want to commend Secretary Powell for 
his effort to strengthen what has traditionally been one of our 
Nation's greatest resources, our diplomatic corps. I am pleased to say, 
Mr. Chairman, that under the authority provided in our bill, the 
Secretary's diplomatic readiness initiative will reach its final goal 
of putting 1,158 new professional American diplomats in place to serve 
our country across the globe.
  I am also very pleased to be joining my good friend from Illinois in 
a continuing effort to make sure that we reduce as rapidly as possible 
the period of time in which our embassy employees are left in compounds 
and facilities that are vulnerable to terrorist attack. To support 
this, our bill provides over $1.3 billion over the next 2 years for 
security upgrades at our embassies in all parts of the world.
  Our bill also contains a number of critical foreign policy 
initiatives that will give our State Department the tools it needs to 
promote and protect our national security interests in an increasingly 
complex world.
  I am very pleased to have had the chance to work with the gentleman 
from California (Mr. Dreier), our distinguished Committee on Rules 
chairman, in crafting one such measure, the International Leadership 
Act of 2003, which has been folded into this bill. Mr. Chairman, the 
Leadership Act is designed to give our diplomats the tools they need to 
ensure that America once again punches at its weight class at the 
United Nations.
  Our legislation achieves this by creating a Democracy Caucus to 
support the United States at the United Nations by directing our 
President to use his influence to reform U.N. rules, so that rogue 
regimes cannot gain leadership positions, and by providing new training 
to make our diplomats more effective in multilateral diplomacy. As my 
colleagues well know, Mr. Chairman, just a couple of years ago, the 
United States was removed from the U.N. Human Rights Commission, a body 
we founded; and Libya was put in charge of that commission, a theater 
of the absurd if we ever saw one.
  I am pleased, Mr. Chairman, that with the leadership of the gentleman 
from Illinois (Mr. Hyde) and our colleague, the gentleman from New York 
(Mr. Ackerman), on a historic measure, we succeeded in making 
provisions for offering significant assistance to a new and democratic 
Palestinian state if performance benchmarks can be reached, including a 
total cessation of terrorism and the establishment of a transparent, 
democratic, and independent judiciary and Palestinian government 
responsive to its people.
  An important provision to our bill was added by the gentleman from 
New York (Mr. Crowley). His provision reverses the administration's 
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and highly political decision to withhold U.S. funding from the United 
Nations Population Fund. The administration's move came after its own 
hand-picked investigative team concluded that there was no evidence 
that the population fund would be involved in any way in coercive 
family planning in China. The gentleman from New York's (Mr. Crowley) 
measure will help the population fund to demonstrate that voluntary 
family planning is the only humane and effective way for China to 
control its population explosion.
  I know, Mr. Chairman, that this provision will be debated later 
today, and I strongly urge all of my colleagues to support the 
committee position on this matter.
  Another important initiative included in our bill is the 
International Free Media Act of 2003. It will help the State Department 
to encourage the development of sources of accurate, objective 
reporting in societies which are currently polluted by messages of 
propaganda and hate in state-controlled media, such as the media in 
Egypt. I am particularly pleased that this initiative includes a new 
$15 million fund to support independent and ethical journalism across 
the globe.
  Our bill also contains the Missile Threat Reduction Act of 2003, 
which is designed to confront the alarming spread of offensive 
ballistic missiles for launching nuclear, chemical, and biological 
warheads. This measure commits the United States to seeking a new 
international mechanism to restrict the trade in missiles. It 
strengthens United States sanctions against those who trade in 
missiles, and it provides assistance to countries which agree to 
destroy their missile arsenals.
  The bill also recognizes the United States' vital interests in 
promoting Afghanistan's transition from chaos, civil war, and disorder 
to an increasingly prosperous and democratic state. To prevent the 
spiral downward, the bill directs the President to ensure that there is 
adequate security along major transportation routes in Afghanistan and 
urges him to expand the international security assistance force.
  I am also pleased, Mr. Chairman, that our bill authorizes all funds 
necessary to pay our assessed dues upon reentry to UNESCO, the United 
Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization. Full funding 
is critical, Mr. Chairman, if we are to fulfill the President's 
commitment of last year to rejoin this most important international 
organization. When UNESCO was founded at the end of the Second World 
War, its motto was, ``Since war begins in the minds of men, it is in 
the minds of men that the defenses of peace must first be 
constructed.'' Never was this statement more appropriate and timely 
than it is now; and our rejoining UNESCO will demonstrate that, far 
from being unilateral, we want to accept our full responsibility as a 
cooperative member of the international community.
  I am disappointed, Mr. Chairman, that the rule for our bill has 
struck out the amendment sponsored by my friend from New Jersey (Mr. 
Menendez) which addresses global climate change, a very real and 
immediate threat to our national security, an issue that has been 
neglected far too long.
  Finally, Mr. Chairman, I would like to note that later today we will 
be debating an amendment to be offered by the gentleman from Illinois 
(Mr. Hyde) and me authorizing the President's Millennium Challenge 
Assistance Initiative and the proposal to dramatically expand our Peace 
Corps. This amendment will dramatically improve the ability of the 
United States to help the least fortunate on this planet and to promote 
a world where hope thrives and the despair that leads to support for 
international terrorism vanishes.

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  I want to thank the chairman of our committee, my good friend, the 
gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde), for working with me and all of the 
other members of our committee in crafting an excellent bill. Virtually 
every element of this bill has the support of both Republicans and 
Democrats, and this is in large part due to the statesmanlike 
leadership of the gentleman from Illinois. I want to commend our 
distinguished chairman and thank him for the open, collegial, and witty 
manner in which he has brought this bill through the committee and he 
will bring it through this House.
  Mr. Chairman, we are considering this legislation at a pivotal moment 
in global history. We are engaged in intense diplomacy on every 
continent, with opportunities to solve long-festering disputes and 
crises in Levant, in Iraq, in the Eastern Mediterranean, in Liberia and 
the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Afghanistan, in Colombia, and in 
scores of other places.
  It is in the midst of this critical conflict against the forces of 
terror and Islamic fanaticism that our bill will make a major 
contribution to building a safe, secure and more democratic world. I 
believe that enactment of our legislation will leave a lasting legacy 
towards solving all of these disputes and crises, and I urge all of my 
colleagues to support it.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. HYDE. Mr. Chairman, I am pleased to yield 3 minutes to the 
distinguished gentleman from California (Mr. Cox).
  Mr. COX. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for yielding me this 
time, and I rise in strong support of the foreign relations and 
security assistance bill. I want to thank the chairman of the committee 
and also the ranking member for including in its entirety in this 
legislation the Global Internet Freedom Act.
  Today, many governments are attempting to restrict individual 
freedoms by blocking the most powerful tool ever created for the free 
exchange of ideas throughout the world. In the hands of free people, 
the Internet may represent the greatest threat to tyranny ever 
invented. That is why many repressive regimes are trying to prevent 
people from using the Internet.
  The Global Internet Freedom Act included in this legislation will 
give millions of people around the world the opportunity to outwit the 
dictators, the power to get around the repressive regimes that are 
attempting to silence them and, perhaps most importantly of all, the 
power to protect themselves from reprisals from these vicious 
governments.
  Many outlawed regimes have been aggressively blocking access to the 
Internet with technologies such as firewalls, filters and black boxes. 
They monitor their citizens' activities on the Internet. They keep 
track of who is saying what, and they punish those who exercise free 
speech on line.
  Last month, according to Human Rights Watch, Chinese web publisher 
Huang Qi, after enduring a 3-month detention, was sentenced to 5 years 
in prison for the crime of subversion. What was he publishing? The on-
line equivalent of our milk carton ads. He created a Web site in which 
people could share information about missing friends or family members, 
and he actually helped rescue several young girls who had been abducted 
and sold into marriage. But because his site also criticized the 
government's failure to deal with these human needs, he now spends his 
days in prison.
  In Cuba, dissidents and opposition journalists are prohibited from 
using the Internet.
  In Burma, only those with official permission from the military 
government can use the Internet.
  In North Korea, Kim Jung Il has sealed off his population from the 
outside world. Of course, Kim Jung Il thinks of himself as a computer 
buff; and the Associated Press has recently reported he has issued an 
edict making computer education mandatory. But outside of those 
classrooms, there will be no connection to the outside world. Because, 
for a dictator, the top priority is keeping ideas about freedom and 
democracy away from the computer screens of impressionable young minds.
  That is why the Global Internet Freedom Act, now included in this 
bill, is so important. The Act will require the United States to 
develop and implement a global strategy to combat state-sponsored and 
state-directed Internet jamming and the persecution of those who use 
the Internet.
  Mr. Chairman, for the sake of freedom and human rights in the 21st 
century, I strongly urge my colleagues to support this legislation, and 
I support the leadership and commend the leadership of the gentleman 
from Illinois (Mr. Hyde) and the gentleman from California (Mr. Lantos) 
for bringing this bill to the floor.

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  Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Chairman, I am delighted to yield 3 minutes to the 
gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), my good friend, the 
distinguished ranking Democratic member of the Subcommittee on the 
Western Hemisphere.
  (Mr. MENENDEZ asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. MENENDEZ. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for yielding me 
this time and for all his work and cooperation, and I rise to speak on 
some of the positive elements of this bill.
  This bill includes my amendment on Iran's program to develop nuclear 
weapons and is particularly relevant given recent developments in Iran. 
Iran continues to claim that its nuclear research program's only goal 
is to promote peaceful activities. Last week, however, Iran confirmed 
that it had successfully tested its mid-range missile, the Shahab-3, 
which can reach Israeli soil. And last month, the International Atomic 
Energy Agency stated Iraq has secretly processed nuclear material. Iran 
continues its game with the IAEA over signing the new nuclear 
safeguards protocol. Iran is a country with huge oil and natural gas 
reserves and clearly does not need nuclear power for its energy 
consumption.
  My amendment, as incorporated in this bill, therefore, calls on the 
International Atomic Energy Agency to ensure that Iran's nuclear 
program is used only for peaceful purposes and urges the United States 
representatives to the IAEA to help develop guidelines for early 
identification of any Iranian noncompliance with the Nuclear Non-
Proliferation Treaty. And, finally, Iran should sign and ratify the new 
nuclear safeguards protocol to this treaty.
  While I commend the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde) and the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Lantos) on pursuing the Millennium 
Challenge Account, I am concerned that this initiative ignores the 
majority of the desperately poor in Latin America and the Caribbean. 
The initiative launched in Mexico will not contribute a dollar to the 
poor in the Mexican state of Chiapas. Two hundred million citizens in 
Latin America and the Caribbean earn under $2 a day, 100 million live 
on less than $1 a day, and yet these poorest of the poor in our own 
hemisphere will not qualify for assistance under the Millennium 
Challenge Account.
  I look forward to seeing the Kolbe amendment, which is similar to the 
one that I proposed, to see if we can move some of those countries 
forward; and, in the absence of that look, I forward to working with 
the committee to see what we are going to do about our neighbors here 
in our own hemisphere, if we are concerned about health care, 
immigration, and biodiversity.
  Lastly, I want to salute the leadership of the committee for 
incorporating the minority recruitment efforts. The State Department 
has had the worst record of all of the Federal Government. Our State 
Department must look like America. It must also have the diversity of 
thought that makes America great. The State Department shows our face 
to the rest of the world, and we should bring the synergies of people 
from different backgrounds to focus on American diplomacy. If the State 
Department is to make progress, minorities must have a seat at the 
table.
  So, Mr. Chairman, as I said at the beginning, this bill has a number 
of positive components, but I am concerned that my Mexico and climate 
change amendments were stripped from the bill; that the Millennium 
Challenge Account hopefully moves closer to helping the people of the 
Western Hemisphere; and, finally, I look forward to the success of 
certain amendments to improve this product. I thank the distinguished 
ranking member for all his help in trying to make it an even better 
bill.
  Mr. HYDE. Mr. Chairman, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from 
Indiana (Mr. Burton).
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Chairman, I want to thank the chairman, 
the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde) and the gentleman from 
California (Mr. Lantos) for agreeing to include in this bill an en bloc 
amendment that deals with a very important subject that I have been 
concerned with for some time.
  As chairman of the Committee on Government Reform for the past 6 
years, we held a number of hearings on the issue of child abductions by 
spouses of American women and men who have taken the children who are 
in the custody of their mother or father here in the United States to 
other countries never to be seen again or heard from again by their 
parents. The most egregious offender of this is Saudi Arabia. They have 
been complicitous in allowing fathers of children born here in the 
United States of American mothers to come over here, kidnap the 
children, take them to Saudi Arabia, and the mother never sees her 
children again, never talks to her children again, and it is a tragic, 
tragic situation.
  In some cases, Mr. Chairman, there have been cases where a mother 
went over to Saudi Arabia to get her kidnapped children, took them to 
the American embassy and was turned away. She was turned away. She was 
actually put out on the street, she was arrested, her children went 
back to the father who had kidnapped them, and one of them was 12 years 
old and she was married off at 12 years old. These are tragic things 
that have occurred to American children who have been kidnapped to 
Saudi Arabia, and the mothers have had to live with that for years and 
years and years, maybe for the rest of their lives.
  So I have talked to Secretary of State Colin Powell about this. He 
has agreed to take steps to remedy the situation, and now Chairman Hyde 
and Ranking Member Lantos have agreed to an en bloc amendment which 
will give the State Department the tools necessary to help fight this 
terrible, terrible tragedy that has been occurring mainly in Saudi 
Arabia in the Middle East but also in other countries throughout the 
world.
  What the amendment does is it extends to the State Department powers 
to deny visas to the extended family of abductors, and that includes 
the spouse, the child, the parent, the grandparent, the aunt, the 
uncle, the brother, the sister, half-brother, half-sister, cousin, 
stepbrother, stepsister, nephew, and niece of the person who did the 
kidnapping. In other words, the extended family of the kidnapper would 
not be allowed to get visas if the State Department so chose to deny 
them visas.
  I think that is a giant step in the right direction. It puts a lot of 
pressure on the kidnapper to bring those children back to American to 
their mother or to the rightful parent. It also requires the State 
Department to submit an annual report to Congress regarding the 
measures that they have taken on international child abduction on a 
country-by-country basis so Congress will be made aware of what is 
being done to bring these children home to their rightful parent.
  It also requires the State Department to send notices regarding child 
abduction cases to countries where they are believed to be abducted to.
  And, finally, this requires the Secretary of State to set forth 
guidelines on how our Department of State personnel treat abducted 
persons who seek sanctuary. As I said, there have been cases in the 
past where our State Department employees at our foreign embassies have 
not treated these people properly. I believe that is not going to 
happen in the future.
  So I thank Colin Powell, our Secretary of State, for agreeing to work 
on this; and I especially thank Chairman Hyde and Ranking Member 
Lantos. They are doing the Lord's work.
  Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
American Samoa (Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA), and I ask unanimous consent that 
during the period of time I am making a presentation at the Committee 
on Resources, the gentleman from American Samoa (Mr. Faleomavaega) may 
control the time on this side and yield it to others.
  The CHAIRMAN. Without objection, so ordered.
  There was no objection.
  (Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA asked and was given permission to revise and extend 
his remarks.)
  Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA. Mr. Chairman, I rise today in strong support of 
H.R. 1950, the Foreign Relations Authorization Act for fiscal years 
2004 and 2005. At this time, I want to commend both our chairman, the 
gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde), and our senior ranking member, the 
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California (Mr. Lantos), of the House Committee on International 
Relations for their outstanding leadership in bringing to the floor the 
State Department reauthorization bill which has strong bipartisan 
support.
  This bill includes an historic measure offering recognition to a 
Palestinian state if performance benchmarks can be reached; increases 
U.S. capacity at the United Nations, where rogue regimes are 
increasingly trying to hijack the agenda; initiates a new effort to 
promote free media abroad; and provides the State Department with tools 
to confront the alarming spread of ballistic missiles.
  Mr. Chairman, this bill also includes three amendments which I 
offered during full committee markup on May 7, 2003, three of which 
were accepted by unanimous consent and have now been included in the 
full text of H.R. 1950.

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  One amendment expresses a sense of Congress relating to the Soviet 
nuclear tests in Kazakhstan and calls for the Secretary of State to 
establish a joint working group with the government of Kazakhstan to 
assist in assessing the environmental damage and health effects caused 
by Soviet nuclear tests Semipalatinsk.
  The other amendment requires the State Department to prepare and 
transmit to Congress a report that contains a description of the extent 
to which the government of Pakistan has closed all known terrorist 
training camps operating in Pakistan and Pakistani-held Kashmir, has 
established serious and identifiable measures to prohibit the 
infiltration of Islamic extremists across the line of control into 
India, and has ceased the transfer of weapons of mass destruction, 
including any associated technologies, to any third country or 
terrorist organization.
  The third amendment authorizes certain sums to allow qualified 
indigenous inhabitants of Latin America to pursue post-secondary and 
graduate studies in our Nation's colleges and universities. I feel very 
strongly that education is the key to the salvation of the indigenous 
inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere.
  At the appropriate time, it is my intention to give strong support to 
an amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Guam (Ms. Bordallo) which 
authorizes the transfer of allowances to residents of the insular areas 
who are members of the U.S. Foreign Service, just as it is done in the 
case of the residents of several States.
  Madam Chairman, I rise today in strong support of H.R. 1950, the 
Foreign Relations Authorization Act for Fiscal years 2004 and 2005. At 
this time, I want to commend both our Chairman Mr. Hyde and the Ranking 
Member Mr. Lantos of the House Committee on International Relations for 
their outstanding leadership in bringing to the floor a State 
Department Reauthorization bill which has strong bipartisan support.
  This bill includes an historic measure offering recognition to a 
Palestinian state if performance benchmarks can be reached, increases 
U.S. capacity at the United Nations where rogue regimes are 
increasingly trying to hijack the agenda, initiates a new effort to 
promote free media abroad and provides the State Department with tools 
to confront the alarming spread of ballistic missiles.
  This bill also includes three amendments which I offered during full 
committee markup on May 7, 2003, both of which were accepted by 
unanimous consent and have now been included in the full text of H.R. 
1950. One amendment expresses a sense of Congress relating to Soviet 
nuclear tests in Kazakhstan and calls for the U.S. Secretary of State 
to establish a joint working group with the Government of Kazakhstan to 
assist in assessing the environmental damage and health effects cause 
by Soviet nuclear testing in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
  The other amendment requires the State Department to prepare and 
transmit to Congress a report that contains a description of the extent 
to which the Government of Pakistan has closed all known terrorist 
training camps operating in Pakistan and Pakistani-held Kashmir, has 
established serious and identifiable measures to prohibit the 
infiltration of Islamic extremists across the Line of Control (LoC) 
into India, and has ceased the transfer of weapons of mass destruction, 
including any associated technologies, to any third country or 
terrorist organization.
  The third amendment authorizes a certain sum of funds to allow 
qualified indigenous inhabitants of Latin America to pursue 
postsecondary and graduate studies in our nation's colleges and 
universities. Over the years, Mr. Chairman I feel very strongly that 
education is the key to the salvation of the indigenous inhabitants of 
the Western Hemisphere.
  At the appropriate time, Mr. Chairman, it is also my intention to 
give strong support to an amendment that will be offered by my 
colleague from the territory of Guam, Ms. Bordallo, which authorizes 
the transfer of allowances to residents of the insular areas who are 
members of the U.S. Foreign Service--just as it is the case with 
residents of the several states.
  At this time, I want to thank Chairman Hyde and Ranking Member Lantos 
for supporting this amendment during full committee markup and 
including it in H.R. 1950. Simply put, their support was critical to 
passage of this amendment and I want to thank the gentleman from 
Illinois and the gentleman from California for taking a stand on this 
important issue at a time when few were willing to do so.
  What many do not know is that this amendment came before the House 
Committee on International Relations on the very day that Deputy 
Secretary Richard Armitage arrived in Pakistan to begin high-level 
diplomatic discussions and I commend Chairman Hyde and Ranking Member 
Lantos for doing the right thing despite the political pressure they 
received to set this amendment aside. I also thank the 49 members of 
the International Relations Committee, both Republican and Democrat, 
who passed this amendment by voice vote without any objection.
  I also want to commend President Bush for his leadership on this 
issue. Now that President Bush has made this issue popular with his 
recent announcement that he would also like to place conditions 
on Pakistan's funding, I am hopeful that the Senate will also support 
our efforts to make Pakistan live up to its promises.

  Congressman Pallone also deserves special recognition for the work he 
is doing to make Pakistan accountable. I thank the gentleman from New 
Jersey for his relentless commitment to monitor the steps Pakistan is 
taking to bring about democracy and for fully supporting the measures 
of this bipartisan amendment which has already been included in the 
text of H.R. 1950.
  Like my colleagues, I am appreciative of Pakistan's post-September 11 
assistance in the war against terrorism. Nevertheless, tensions in the 
region are rising and I know I am not alone when I say I have deep 
reservations about U.S. policy in South Asia. Once again, I want to 
reiterate that I believe Pakistan should be commended for assisting the 
U.S. in its efforts to hunt down Al Qaeda and Taliban fugitives and for 
allowing the U.S. military to use bases within its country.
  But I cannot turn a blind eye to the fact that Pakistan has not 
closed all known terrorist training camps operating in Pakistan. I 
cannot turn a blind eye to the fact that Pakistan has not prohibited 
the infiltration of Islamic extremists across the Line of Control into 
Indian Kashmir. I cannot turn a blind eye to the fact that General 
Musharraf promised Deputy Secretary Armitage that infiltration would 
cease and it has not.
  Since 1989, more than 50,000 men, women and children have died in the 
Kashmir dispute and since September 11 Islamic militants from Pakistan 
have crossed the Line of Control and claimed the lives of innocent men, 
women and children--not once, not twice, but three times, committing 
egregious acts of cross-border terrorism on each and every occasion.
  On the other hand, India has not crossed the Line of Control since 
1972. In fact, India has exercised incredible restraint in not waging 
full-scale war to defend itself against these terrorist acts. Although 
I believe we are fortunate that neither country has yet resorted to the 
use of nuclear weapons, we also should be very concerned that both 
Pakistan and India test fired short-range ballistic missiles on March 
26 of this year which incidentally (or not) was the same day that Prime 
Minister Jamali said that Pakistan and China will enhance their defense 
ties.
  On May 15, 2003, 8 days after the International Relations Committee 
unanimously voted in favor of my amendment, Pakistan's third highest 
ranking government official, Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri, 
requested an appointment to meet with me. We had a meaningful dialogue 
and he gave me his personal assurances that Pakistan is interested in 
creating a roadmap for peace to resolve the Kashmir dispute.
  I believe Kashmir is one of the most important issues that must be 
resolved in order to establish peace in the Asia Pacific region. India 
and Pakistan have fought two wars over Kashmir in the past 50 years and 
came very close to the brink of nuclear war less than 2 years ago. In 
December of 2001, both countries amassed nearly one million soldiers 
along their common border and had the U.S. not intervened it was feared 
that India and Pakistan's dispute over Kashmir could have led to the 
first use of nuclear weapons sine World War II.
  As the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific and 
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only Asia Pacific American serving on both the Subcommittee and the 
full Committee on International Relations, I am deeply concerned about 
cross-border terrorism and the threat of nuclear proliferation in the 
Asia Pacific region. Any threat to regional stability puts our soldiers 
at risk and some have argued that this situation may become as 
dangerous as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
  This is why I am pleased that H.R. 1950 includes a provision which 
requires the State Department to report to Congress about the progress 
that is being made to resolve the India-Pakistan dispute. I believe 
this legislation is necessary and given the seriousness of this 
situation, I urge my colleagues to support H.R. 1950.
  Madam Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. HYDE. Madam Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from New 
Jersey (Mr. Smith).
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Madam Chairman, first of all, I commend the 
gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde) for crafting an outstanding piece of 
legislation. As we all know, he guided and shepherded through this body 
landmark legislation on AIDS which would not have been written into law 
without his effective leadership. I also thank the gentleman for 
including so many provisions which I proposed either as amendments or 
as base text.
  In particular, including an amendment on refugees I offered along 
with the gentleman from California (Mr. Berman) that increases refugee 
protection monies by $310 million over 2 years, and my bill called the 
Belarus Democracy Act. This legislation which is embodied now into the 
text of the bill, would provide for effective help to civil society, 
human rights promotion, and democracy promotion in Belarus; the victims 
of torture which gets a modest but necessary increase in the U.N. 
Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture; and there are many others.
  This is a consensus bill in many ways, but there are some points of 
divergence. The gentleman from New York (Mr. Crowley) has put into the 
bill by a very narrow vote, an amendment that seriously and 
fundamentally weakens America's core anti-coercion law which says no 
funding goes to any organization that supports or participates in the 
management of a coercive population control program.
  We in this Congress do not make the determination as to whether or 
not a group gets population control money. We set the standard. It is 
then left to the executive branch which relies on all relevant 
information to make a finding. Last year, Secretary Powell made that 
finding and said that the PRC has in place a regime of severe penalties 
on women who have unapproved births and that this regime plainly 
operates to coerce pregnant women to have abortions in order to avoid 
the harsh penalties.
  ``UNFPA's support of and involvement in China's population planning 
activities allows the Chinese government to implement more effectively 
its program of coercive abortion,'' Secretary Powell said.
  I say to my colleagues, this debate is all about coercion. I would 
hope that my friends who support abortion would realize that coercion, 
whether it be forced sterilization or forced abortion, is an 
unconscionable act; and when it is done with impunity by the Chinese 
government with their partner, the U.N. Population Fund, we need to 
disassociate ourselves from that kind of activity. We need to stand 
with the oppressed, not with the oppressor, and the friends of the 
oppressor. We need to stand with the victims.
  I urge my colleagues to support an amendment that I will be offering, 
cosponsored by the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Oberstar) and the 
gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde), that would strike this language 
from the bill. I would hope that we would stand with the women of China 
who are being oppressed by their government and with their partners in 
these crimes against humanity, the U.N. Population Fund. I urge Members 
to vote for our amendment.
  Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA. Madam Chairman, I yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the 
gentlewoman from California (Ms. Lee).
  Ms. LEE. Madam Chairman, first, let me thank the gentleman for 
yielding.
  I rise today in support of the State Department authorization bill 
and also in support of the Millennium Challenge Account and Peace Corps 
amendments. I thank the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde) and the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Lantos) for working on a bipartisan 
basis once again to ensure broad support for this bill.
  Together we were able to craft language examining, for example, the 
impact of U.S. loan policy on Haiti and its ongoing humanitarian crisis 
and calling for the participation of small and minority-owned 
businesses within the MCA account. Small and disadvantaged businesses 
represent a very vital economic engine in this country yet too often 
have very little chance to participate in foreign assistance programs, 
so I am very pleased that we were able to ensure that they will play a 
role in the Millennium Challenge Account.
  My two amendments are included in this bill, and once again I thank 
the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde) and the gentleman from 
California (Mr. Lantos) for their support.
  I would like to highlight two aspects of this bill which represents 
real progress in foreign policy, family planning and global climate 
change. First, through the Crowley-Lee amendment, the bill restored 
U.S. funding to vital United Nations family planning programs. This 
measure helps provide health care to and prevents abortions to the 
world's poorest women. Failure to provide family planning costs the 
lives of women and children. It is really just that simple. This also 
is a common-sense measure that prevents HIV and AIDS.
  I strongly oppose the Smith amendment and would urge my colleagues 
oppose stripping out this important health care provision. The bill we 
passed out of committee also declared that it was the sense of the 
Congress and that the United States should demonstrate international 
leadership in mitigating global warming. The Committee on Energy and 
Commerce, however, refused to take up the responsibility of leadership 
and removed this global climate change measure. If we refuse to lead, 
we will be left behind technologically while we continue to contribute 
disproportionately to the world's pollution and global warming.
  The Committee on Rules has joined the Committee on Energy and 
Commerce in this conspiracy of silence by refusing to allow a vote on 
the Menendez amendment on climate change.
  Also, I am disappointed that the Committee on Rules did not make in 
order my amendment to advance democracy in fair and free elections on 
Haiti. But, on balance, it is a bill which I urge my colleagues to 
support. I thank the gentleman from Illinois again for this bipartisan 
bill.
  Mr. HYDE. Madam Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
Nebraska (Mr. Bereuter).
  (Mr. BEREUTER asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. BEREUTER. Madam Chairman, I rise in strong support of H.R. 1950, 
and I commend the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde) and the gentleman 
from California (Mr. Lantos) for crafting and presenting this important 
legislation to the House for action.
  Of course, a key goal of foreign relations authorization bills are to 
provide the best and most secure service to American citizens traveling 
and working overseas. Indeed, when lax security and dilapidation at 
U.S. overseas facilities contribute to U.S. vulnerability to attacks 
and subsequent American deaths, this country suffers.
  Please recall the reaction to the tragic 1998 embassy bombings in 
Nairobi and Dar es Saalam. All Americans shared a sense of pain, grief 
and outrage at these senseless acts of terrorism. While not all attacks 
on U.S. overseas missions can be averted, Congress must provide the 
appropriate tools to improve the ability of the State Department to 
guard against disasters like these.
  On many occasions, Secretary of State Colin Powell has articulated 
embassy security as a key priority for the State Department. 
Additionally, this Member is a long-time supporter of increased embassy 
security. In fact, in this legislation the funding level reflects a 
commitment to embassy security by allocating over $1.653 billion in 
fiscal year 2004 and $1.784 billion in fiscal year 2005 for ongoing 
embassy security construction and maintenance. This is an important 
additional step for both the administration and for Congress which now 
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many years have significantly slowed the construction of new embassies 
and consulates.
  Furthermore, this Member is particularly pleased that the gentleman 
from Illinois (Mr. Hyde) will offer an amendment to provide the initial 
authorization for the Millennium Challenge Account. On March 14, 2002, 
President Bush proposed the MCA, which would provide additional U.S. 
aid for fiscal year 2006 to poor countries to be used for social sector 
improvements such as agriculture, health, education, and the 
environment. The President's concept underlying these proposals is 
clear. Countries that rule justly, invest in their people and encourage 
economic freedom will receive U.S. assistance.
  The amendment which the chairman will offer is nearly identical to 
H.R. 2441, the free-standing legislation offered by the gentleman from 
Illinois (Mr. Hyde). This Member is a cosponsor of that legislation.
  Secondly, an amendment he will offer today will establish a 
Millennium Challenge Corporation, MCC, an entity which would be 
authorized to provide development assistance grants to eligible 
countries. Also, the MCC would work with national local organizations, 
government and nongovernment organizations within eligible countries to 
develop specific multi-year development goals.
  Finally, the amendment includes a provision which this Member 
requested to ensure that agricultural development would be among the 
areas on which the MCA focuses.
  Madam Chairman, this Member has had a long-standing interest and 
experience in seeking to construct efficient, innovative ways to 
deliver humanitarian assistance, especially in agriculture. I support 
the amendment offered by the gentleman from Illinois and the 
legislation and urge all Members to support it.
  Indeed, if a country cannot feed itself, that country's prospects for 
political, economic, and societal stability are greatly endangered. 
Educating children and treating adults for communicable diseases simply 
produces few results if the efforts are directed people who do not have 
to eat.
  Agricultural development programs which gather supplies of good seed, 
build breeding livestock herds, construct basic irrigation systems and 
viable roads to markets, provide microcredit, and establish rural 
electric infrastructure do not require vast resources. However, such 
programs to build subsistence farming capacity do require a clear 
commitment from the U.S. Government and technical assistance gleaned 
from the incredible human resources found within American land grant 
colleges and universities, the NGO and cooperative communities, and the 
private sector.
  Previously, in 1985, this Member drafted a successful amendment to 
the 1986 Farm Bill which required that, for the first time, a small 
portion of 1 percent of the funds from the Food for Peace program could 
be directed toward what is now the Farmer-to-Farmer program. Originally 
implemented as a pilot program operating only in Central America and 
the Caribbean, Farmer-to-Farmer has gained support from skeptics, 
including the USAID, who believed that the concept was too simply to be 
effective. The simple approach has worked and, in fact, has been 
extended to Africa, Asia, South America, and the Newly Independent 
States of the former Soviet Union (NIS).
  Madam Chairman, some people within the Washington Beltway have 
expressed similar concerns about the MCA. This Member sincerely hopes 
that 18 years from today, the MCA proves to be as successful as the 
Farmer-to-Farmer program in assisting the world's poor people.
  In conclusion, this Member encourages his colleagues to vote for the 
Hyde amendment regarding the MCA and for final passage of H.R. 1950.
  Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA. Madam Chairman, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the 
gentleman from New York (Mr. Israel).
  Mr. ISRAEL. Madam Chairman, I rise to thank the gentleman from 
Illinois and the ranking minority member for their support on a 
critically important provision in this State Department authorization 
act. It is a measure that I drafted and they embraced and included in 
this bill. The Lantos-Israel language will require the Department of 
State to include in its annual country report on human rights a 
specific description on the nature and extent of curricula and 
classrooms that promote violence and hatred and terrorism around the 
world.
  Why is this important? I believe it is important because I am 
convinced that all of the road maps and all of the cease-fires and all 
of the diplomatic accords and all of the agreements are going to be 
futile for as long as children are taught in their second grade 
classrooms how to hate, and the world will continue to be a very 
violent place if we allow classrooms to teach kids how to blow things 
up instead of how to put things together.
  Some brief examples, I am talking about textbooks that teach children 
that there is no alternative to the destruction of the state of Israel, 
textbooks that equate Zionism with Nazism, textbooks that indoctrinated 
the terrorists who attacked and murdered over 200 of my constituents on 
September 11, 2001.
  Madam Chairman, we have ignored school-sponsored lessons of hatred 
for too long. This provision for the first time will monitor the 
problem and will keep us focused on it, and it puts the world on notice 
that we want kids who are educated to put things together rather than 
indoctrinated on how to blow things up.
  I thank the gentleman from Illinois and the ranking member for 
advancing this critical measure.
  Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA. Madam Chairman, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the 
gentleman from New York (Mr. Crowley).
  Mr. CROWLEY. Madam Chairman, I rise today to speak in strong support 
of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act for fiscal year 2004 and 
2005. I commend the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde) and the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Lantos) for putting together such a 
strong bipartisan bill.
  This bill increases funding for State Department activities and 
specifically increases funding for security for members of our Foreign 
Service and at the embassies where they work.

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  This increase is so important because of the continued terrorist 
threat against our Nation's embassies abroad. This bill also addresses 
the Quartet's road map and sets certain conditions that must be met 
before the United States can agree to a Palestinian state. With what 
looks like a potential end of the intifada, the Palestinians must prove 
that they can protect the security of Israel and her people before they 
be rewarded with statehood.
  Another provision requires a report on democracy in the Western 
Hemisphere that my good friend, the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. 
Delahunt), included during the markup in the Committee on International 
Relations. I believe this report will show Congress and the 
administration the needs of our long neglected neighbors to the south. 
The United States needs to increase engagement with the Western 
Hemisphere to ensure that our neighbors continue on the path to durable 
democracy. I believe this is a strong bipartisan bill, if it remains 
intact, that deserves the support of all my colleagues.
  Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA. Madam Chairman, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the 
distinguished gentleman from Oregon (Mr. Blumenauer), a member of the 
Committee on International Relations.
  Mr. BLUMENAUER. Madam Chairman, I appreciate the gentleman's courtesy 
for permitting me to speak in support of the State Department 
authorization. I am pleased to be a member of the committee. I salute 
the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde), our chairman, and the work that 
he has done with the gentleman from California (Mr. Lantos), the 
ranking member, to be able to deal in a bipartisan and cooperative 
spirit with some of the major issues of our time. Certainly nothing 
could be more important for us to have an opportunity for Congress to 
be involved in a cooperative and thoughtful measure on things that 
should not be rife with partisan divisions or unnecessary ideological 
debate.
  It seems to me that there are three important things for us to focus 
on in the course of the discussion this afternoon. I am pleased with 
the benchmark that has been established for the Millennium Challenge 
Account, the opportunity; and I commend the administration for 
injecting responsibility as a criterion for giving forth aid.
  I look forward to the debate on the international family planning, 
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for the United Nations population fund but to have a spirited and 
thoughtful exchange for what that means. Last, but by no means least, 
we are not going to give proper attention in the course of the detail 
of the debate but there has been careful work done by the committee, 
its staff and working with the State Department to be able to support 
the leadership from our Secretary of State who is dealing with the 
needs of the outstanding men and women who are on the front line 
practicing diplomacy around the world, providing defense in areas of 
threats to our security, promotion of commerce and, most important, 
international understanding. I would hope that we will be able to 
continue forward using this as a foundation to be able to have the type 
of discussion that these issues merit.
  Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA. Madam Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman 
from New Jersey (Mr. Pallone).
  Mr. PALLONE. Madam Chairman, a few weeks ago, President Bush 
announced a $3 billion aid package to Pakistan. I do not support the 
provisions of military aid in that package. However, President Bush was 
willing to put some conditions on the Pakistan aid package. Those 
conditions were, one, Pakistan must exemplify its effort to decrease 
crossborder terrorism in Kashmir; two, Pakistan must end support of 
nuclear nonproliferation in rogue nations; and, three, Pakistan must 
exemplify steps toward returning to a democracy.
  Madam Chairman, this bill today includes language included by the 
gentleman from American Samoa that is consistent with the first two 
conditions outlined by the President. It requires the State Department 
to prepare a report that contains a description of the extent to which 
Pakistan has closed all known terrorist training camps operating in 
Pakistan and Pakistani-held Kashmir, has established serious and 
identifiable measures to prohibit the infiltration of Islamic 
extremists across the Line of Control into India, and has ceased the 
transfer of weapons of mass destruction.
  Because this important language is included in the bill, I rise in 
support of this legislation and only wish to make the point that it is 
equally as important for Pakistan to return to democracy in order to 
ensure future peace and stability in South Asia.
  Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA. Madam Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman 
from Texas (Ms. Jackson-Lee).
  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to revise 
and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Madam Chairman, there are many good 
efforts, and I do want to thank the chairman and ranking member on this 
bill that so many Members have a stake in, but I would like to add my 
opposition to the amendment that will be on the floor just shortly, the 
Smith-Oberstar-Hyde amendment that deals with limiting the actions on 
behalf of the United Nations population fund, because family planning 
and HIV/AIDS are so much intertwined that I think we need to show the 
balance, and I encourage my colleagues to look for the balance. But I 
thank the committee overall for the work they have done.
  I want to cite, however, the importance of the millennium fund and 
the increase that will occur through the passage of the Hyde-Lantos 
amendment and I hope that we will be able to utilize it in countries 
like Ethiopia. I also hope that we will be able to engage in colloquies 
on this floor to talk about my issue of more women engaged in the peace 
negotiations processes around the world and add more effort, if you 
will, to engage in peacekeeping efforts in Liberia. And as well, I want 
to make sure that we do not overlook the importance of following the 
trail on the issue dealing with the uranium purchase in Africa that has 
presented such conflicting statements from the White House. It is 
important to tell the American people the truth. But I do believe that 
our foreign policies have improved by way of this legislation.
  Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA. Madam Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume. I would like to again express our deepest appreciation to the 
distinguished chairman of the Committee on International Relations and 
also the senior ranking member not only for the outstanding job that 
they have done in bringing this legislation to the floor but in the 
spirit of bipartisanship that we are able to bring to this general 
debate for consideration of the Members of this body and, more 
importantly, the fact that we have allowed the general Members of this 
body the opportunity to offer amendments. This is the spirit of 
bipartisanship and the way democracy should operate. Again, I thank the 
good chairman of our committee.
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Madam Chairman, I am pleased that Title XV 
of the State Department authorization bill incorporates key provisions 
of the Belarus Democracy Act of 2003, which I sponsored earlier this 
year. The State Department's annual Country Reports on Human Rights 
Practices report on Belarus states that the Belarusian regime's ``human 
rights record remained very poor and worsened in several areas.'' 
Thanks to Alexander Lukashenka--aptly cited by The Washington Post as 
``Europe's last dictator''--Belarus has the worst human rights record 
in Europe today. The Helskinki Commission, which I Chair, as well as 
the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe including its 
Parliamentary Assembly, the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the 
European Union and other international entities have all chronicled the 
appalling state of human rights and democracy in a country located in 
the heart of Europe. Belarus already borders NATO. In just a few years, 
Belarus will border the European Union.
  The Lukashenka regime has blatantly and repeatedly violated basic 
freedoms of speech, expression, assembly, association and religion. The 
independent media, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and democratic 
opposition have all faced harassment. Indeed, in the last few months, 
his war against civil society has intensified--resulting in the closure 
of non-governmental organizations, independent media outlets and 
Western-funded media support groups, such as Internews Network group, 
an international organization that helps develop independent media in 
countries in transition.
  Just last week, the Lukashenka regime denied continuation of the 
accreditation of the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), 
an American organization that has implemented a variety of assistance 
programs in Belarus for years, including programs that helped the 
struggling independent media. Last week, they ordered the closure of 
the Minsk bureau of Russian NTV television. Just a few weeks ago, 
Lukashenka closed down the National Humanities Lyceum, a highly 
respected school promoting the study of the Belarusian language and 
culture. There are growing, legitimate fears that Lukashenka is aiming 
to remove Belarus from its vestiges of democracy dissent.
  In October, Lukashenka signed into law the most restrictive religion 
law in Europe. Independent journalists have been sentenced to 
``corrective labor'' for their writings. There are credible allegations 
of the Lukashenka regime's involvement in the disappearances of leading 
opposition figures and a journalist. Here in Washington and at various 
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly meetings, I've had occasion to meet with 
the wives of the disappeared, Victor Gonchar, Anatoly Krasovsky, Yuri 
Zakharenka, and Dmitry Zavadsky. These meetings have been heart-
wrenching. The cases of their husbands--who disappeared in 1999 and 
2000 and are presumed to have been murdered--are a stark illustration 
of the climate of fear that pervades in Belarus.

  On the security front, reports of arms deals between the Belarusian 
regime and rogue states, including Iraq and North Korea, continue to 
circulate. Lukashenka and his regime were open in their support of 
Saddam Hussein.
  One of the primary purposes of this initiative is to demonstrate U.S. 
support for those persevering to promote democracy and respect for 
human rights in Belarus despite the onerous pressures they face from 
the anti-democratic regime. Necessary assistance is authorized for 
democracy-building activities such as support for non-governmental 
organizations, independent media--including radio and television 
broadcasting to Belarus--and international exchanges.
  The bill also encourages free and fair parliamentary elections, 
conducted in a manner consistent with international standards--in sharp 
contrast to the 2000 parliamentary and 2001 presidential elections in 
Belarus which flagrantly flaunted democratic standards. As a result of 
these elections, Belarus has the distinction of lacking legitimate 
presidential and parliamentary leadership, which contributes to that 
country's self-imposed isolation. Parliamentary elections are scheduled 
to be held in 2004, and we should encourage those who seek to create 
the laws and environment conducive to a free and fair election.
  In addition, the Executive Branch is encouraged to impose sanctions 
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Lukashenka regime and deny high-ranking officials of the regime entry 
into the United States. U.S. Government financing would be prohibited, 
except for humanitarian goods and agricultural or medical products. The 
U.S. Executive Directors of the international financial institutions 
would be encouraged to vote against financial assistance to the 
Government of Belarus except for loans and assistance that serve 
humanitarian needs.
  Madam Chairman, we are seeking to help put an end to the pattern of 
clear and uncorrected human rights violations by the Lukashenka regime 
and are hoping this will serve as a catalyst to facilitate Belarus' 
integration into democratic Europe. The Belarusian people deserve to 
live in a society where democratic principles and human rights are 
respected and the rule of law is preeminent. The Belarusian people--who 
have endured so much both under past and current dictatorships--deserve 
our support as they work to overcome the legacy of the past and develop 
a genuinely independent, democratic country.

  In addition, Madam Chairman, in keeping with this authorization for 
the Department of State, I want to express my appreciation for the work 
of the Department in bringing needed attention to the concerns about 
ongoing anti-Semitism, an age-old plague that still haunts many 
countries in the OSCE, including our own. I have sought to identify 
effective responses to this troubling phenomenon, including the 
introduction of the resolution, H. Con. Res. 49 which passed last 
month.
  Last month, I joined Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Congressman Hastings in 
Vienna for an OSCE conference specifically focused on anti-Semitism. 
Having the OSCE itself take up this important cause is significant. In 
fact, the idea was first raised in the May 2002 hearing of the Helsinki 
Commission and also suggested in the resolution condemning anti-
Semitism I presented at the Berlin Parliamentary Assembly meeting last 
summer. I offered a similar resolution week before last at the 
Rotterdam OSCE PA meeting. Both resolutions passed the Assembly 
unanimously. While the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly has actively 
denounced anti-Semitic acts, I give great credit to the State 
Department for making the Vienna Conference a reality. Notably, one 
initiative emerging from the Vienna Conference was a pledge by our 
German friends to hold a follow-up meeting in Berlin next year to focus 
on anti-Semitism. I hope this meeting will rally the troops from 
Europe, the U.S., and Canada to say in one voice ``never again.''
  Finally, Madam Chairman, I was pleased to learn of Senator 
Voinovich's amendment to the Senate's State Department reauthorization 
bill requiring the Annual Report on International Religious Freedom to 
include specific coverage of anti-Semitism. The amendment calls for the 
report to cover ``acts of anti-Semitic violence that occurred in that 
country'' and ``the response of the government of that country to such 
acts of violence.'' Importantly, the amendment would mandate the report 
to chronicle ``actions by the government of that country to enact and 
enforce laws relating to the protection of the right to religious 
freedom with respect to people of the Jewish faith.'' I think this is a 
worthwhile idea and hope it will be enacted into law.
  Mr. SHAYS. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of H.R. 1950, the Foreign 
Relations Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2004 and 2005. In 
particularly, I would like to comment on Section 273: Staffing at 
Diplomatic Missions.
  As Chairman of the Committee on Government Reform's Subcommittee on 
National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations, I 
have held several hearings on rightsizing the U.S. presence overseas.
  Rightsizing the U.S. presence overseas is the process of putting the 
right people with the right skills in the right places. It is first and 
foremost about keeping U.S. personnel safe, but it is also about 
successfully manning the diplomatic front in the war against terrorism. 
Under-skilled personnel running visa lines in sensitive countries, 
personnel handling communications without necessary language skills, or 
a lack of staff to handle workloads hurt diplomatic readiness and a key 
part of the war on terrorism: our nation's relationships with its 
allies. Moreover, rightsizing involves every government agency with a 
presence overseas, not simply the Department of State.
  The war on terrorism, increased AIDS funding in Africa and the 
Caribbean, the new Millennium Challenge Account program, changes to the 
U.S. entry-exit rules, and a greater emphasis on foreign affairs all 
promise to increase the workloads of overseas missions, and place 
greater pressure on chiefs of mission to right-size staff.
  At our request, the General Accounting Office (GAO) has pursued and 
continues to pursue the rightsizing issue in concert with the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB). GAO created a rightsizing framework 
consisting of three factors: physical and technical security of 
facilities and employees, mission priorities and requirements, and cost 
of operations. In addition, OMB has included rightsizing as part of the 
President's Management Agenda and begun using Europe as a test case for 
the GAO framework.
  Section 273 calls on chiefs of mission to assist in the rightsizing 
process by evaluating the necessity of all staff positions under their 
authority, even those from other Executive Branch agencies. This 
language was included at my request and reflects a small but important 
part of the oversight work the Subcommittee has conducted. Section 273 
brings us closer to giving the managers of U.S. embassies and 
consulates overseas, the chiefs of mission, the tools they need to 
effectively administer their posts and carry out U.S. foreign policy.
  Mr. TOWNS. Madam Chairman, as we vote on H.R. 1950, the Foreign 
Relations Authorization Act of FY2004 and FY2005, I want to draw the 
attention of my colleagues to an important omission in this bill.
  Section 303 of the Foreign Relations Authorization purports to 
establish an Office of Ombudsman in the Department of State. However, 
this bill did not create this office. Congress created this office in 
P.L. 100-204. Congress passed this legislation over 15 years ago based 
on its findings that (1) the effectiveness and efficiency of the 
Department of State is dependent on the contributions of its Civil 
Service and Foreign Service employees; (2) the contribution of the 
Department's Civil Service employees has been overlooked in the 
management of the Department and greater equity of promotion, training, 
and career enhancement opportunities should be accorded to them and (3) 
the goal of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 was to strengthen the 
contribution made by the Department's Civil Service employees by 
creating a cadre of experienced specialists and managers to provide 
essential continuity.
  Created with the Congressional findings in mind, the office of 
Ombudsman was given the mission to ensure that civil service concerns 
are identified and properly weighed by decision-makers, make 
recommendations to management, and work with affected parties to 
correct or alleviate systemic problems that adversely affect civil 
service employees, and provide guidance and counseling to employees on 
work and career-related matters. Additionally, the Ombudsman was given 
the responsibility of advising the Secretary of State and senior 
department management on civil service issues to ensure the ability of 
civil service employees to contribute to the achievement of the 
Department's foreign affairs responsibilities. Under the original 
legislation, the Ombudsman reported to the Secretary of State, and 
participated in all management council meetings to assure that the 
concerns of civil service employees are presented.
  Additionally, the original legislation assured that civil service 
employees would not be disproportionately affected by reduction in 
force or other actions which reduce the department's workforce.
  Under the rubric of ``establishing'' the office of Ombudsman, the 
bill before us today eviscerates the office as established by Congress. 
It gives the Secretary discretion to determine the involvement of the 
Ombudsman in the senior-level meetings, eliminates the office's focus 
on civil service employees, and removes the requirement that the burden 
of personnel reductions not be disproportionately imposed on civil 
service employees.
  Madam Chairman, section 303 of H.R. 1950 destroys the work of a 
previous Congress without rhyme or reason. It is clear that our civil 
service employees are a valuable asset. Our national security depends 
on the work of civil service employees in the Department of State. If 
we remove the protections afforded by this office, we are sending a 
clear and unmistakable message that we are no longer concerned about 
preserving the protections we have afforded them. We must reconsider 
this ill-advised provision.
  Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA. Madam Chairman, I yield back the balance of my 
time.
  Mr. HYDE. Madam Chairman, I have no further requests for time, and I 
yield back the balance of my time.
  The CHAIRMAN pro tempore (Mrs. Capito). All time for general debate 
has expired.
  Pursuant to House Resolution 316, the amendment in the nature of a 
substitute recommended by the Committee on International Relations 
printed in the bill, modified by the amendments recommended by the 
Committees on Armed Services and Energy and Commerce also printed in 
the bill, is considered as an original bill for the purpose of 
amendment and is considered read.
  The text of the committee amendment in the nature of a substitute, as 
modified, is as follows:

                               H.R. 1950

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

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     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``Foreign Relations 
     Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2004 and 2005''.

     SEC. 2. ORGANIZATION OF ACT INTO DIVISIONS; TABLE OF 
                   CONTENTS.

       (a) Organization of Act Into Divisions.--This Act is 
     organized into two divisions as follows:
       (1) Division a.--Department of State Authorization Act, 
     Fiscal Years 2004 and 2005.
       (2) Division b.--Defense Trade and Security Assistance 
     Reform Act of 2003.
       (b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this Act 
     is as follows:

Sec. 1. Short title.
Sec. 2. Organization of act into divisions; table of contents.
Sec. 3. Definitions.

 DIVISION A--DEPARTMENT OF STATE AUTHORIZATION ACT, FISCAL YEARS 2004 
                                AND 2005

Sec. 101. Short title.

               TITLE I--AUTHORIZATIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS

                    Subtitle A--Department of State

Sec. 111. Administration of foreign affairs.
Sec. 112. United States educational and cultural programs.
Sec. 113. Contributions to international organizations.
Sec. 114. International commissions.
Sec. 115. Migration and refugee assistance.
Sec. 116. Voluntary contributions to international organizations.
Sec. 117. Voluntary contributions for international peacekeeping 
              activities.
Sec. 118. Grants to the Asia Foundation.

    Subtitle B--United States International Broadcasting Activities

Sec. 121. Authorizations of appropriations.

        TITLE II--DEPARTMENT OF STATE AUTHORITIES AND ACTIVITIES

               Subtitle A--United States Public Diplomacy

Sec. 201. Findings and purposes.
Sec. 202. Public diplomacy responsibilities of the Department of State.
Sec. 203. Annual plan on public diplomacy strategy.
Sec. 204. Public diplomacy training.
Sec. 205. United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy.
Sec. 206. Library program.
Sec. 207. Sense of Congress concerning public diplomacy efforts in sub-
              Saharan Africa.

              Subtitle B--Basic Authorities and Activities

Sec. 221. United States policy with respect to Jerusalem as the capital 
              of Israel.
Sec. 222. Modification of reporting requirements.
Sec. 223. Report concerning efforts to promote Israel's diplomatic 
              relations with other countries.
Sec. 224. Reimbursement rate for certain airlift services provided by 
              the Department of Defense to the Department of State.
Sec. 225. Sense of Congress regarding additional United States consular 
              posts.
Sec. 226. Validity of United States passports for travel to countries 
              receiving United States foreign assistance.
Sec. 227. GAO assessment of security capital cost sharing.
Sec. 228. Authority to issue administrative subpoenas.
Sec. 229. Enhancing refugee resettlement and maintaining the United 
              States commitment to refugees.
Sec. 230. The Colin Powell Center for American Diplomacy.

            Subtitle C--Educational and Cultural Authorities

Sec. 251. Establishment of initiatives for predominantly Muslim 
              countries.
Sec. 252. Database of American and foreign participants in exchange 
              programs.
Sec. 253. Report on inclusion of freedom and democracy advocates in 
              educational and cultural exchange programs.
Sec. 254. Sense of the Congress concerning educational and cultural 
              exchange program for foreign journalists.
Sec. 255. Sense of Congress regarding Korean Fulbright programs.
Sec. 256. Authorizing East Timorese scholarships for graduate study.
Sec. 257. Public safety awareness in study abroad programs.

                    Subtitle D--Consular Authorities

Sec. 271. Machine readable visas.
Sec. 272. Processing of visa applications.
Sec. 273. Staffing at diplomatic missions.

    TITLE III--ORGANIZATION AND PERSONNEL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Sec. 301. Fellowship of Hope Program.
Sec. 302. Claims for lost pay.
Sec. 303. Ombudsman for the Department of State.
Sec. 304. Repeal of recertification requirement for senior foreign 
              service.
Sec. 305. Report concerning status of employees of State Department.
Sec. 306. Home leave.
Sec. 307. Increased limits applicable to post differentials and danger 
              pay allowances.
Sec. 308. Regulations regarding retirement credit for government 
              service performed abroad.
Sec. 309. Minority recruitment.
Sec. 310. Meritorious step increases.

                 TITLE IV--INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

              Subtitle A--Basic Authorities and Activities

Sec. 401. Raising the cap on peacekeeping contributions.
Sec. 402. Regarding the reentry of the United States in UNESCO.
Sec. 403. UNESCO national commission.
Sec. 404. Organization of American States (OAS) emergency fund.
Sec. 405. United States efforts regarding the status of Israel in the 
              Western European and Others Group at the United Nations.

           Subtitle B--United States International Leadership

Sec. 431. Short title.
Sec. 432. Findings.
Sec. 433. Establishment of a democracy caucus.
Sec. 434. Annual diplomatic missions on multilateral issues.
Sec. 435. Leadership and membership of international organizations.
Sec. 436. Increased training in multilateral diplomacy.
Sec. 437. Promoting assignments to international organizations.
Sec. 438. Implementation and establishment of office on multilateral 
              negotiations.
Sec. 439. Synchronization of United States contributions to 
              international organizations.

      TITLE V--UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING ACTIVITIES

              Subtitle A--Basic Authorities and Activities

Sec. 501. Mideast Radio and Television Network, Inc.
Sec. 502. Improving signal delivery to Cuba.
Sec. 503. Report concerning efforts to counter jamming of broadcasts of 
              Radio Marti and TV Marti.
Sec. 504. Pilot program for the promotion of travel and tourism in the 
              United States through United States international 
              broadcasting.
Sec. 505. Radio Free Asia broadcasts into North Korea.
Sec. 506. Prohibition on elimination of international broadcasting in 
              Eastern Europe.

                  Subtitle B--Global Internet Freedom

Sec. 521. Short title.
Sec. 522. Findings.
Sec. 523. Purposes.
Sec. 524. Development and deployment of technologies to defeat Internet 
              jamming and censorship.

 Subtitle C--Reorganization of United States International Broadcasting

Sec. 531. Establishment of United States International Broadcasting 
              Agency.
Sec. 532. Authorities and functions of the agency.
Sec. 533. Role of the Secretary of State.
Sec. 534. Administrative provisions.
Sec. 535. Broadcasting Board of Governors and International 
              Broadcasting Bureau.
Sec. 536. Transition.
Sec. 537. Conforming amendments.
Sec. 538. References.
Sec. 539. Broadcasting standards.
Sec. 540. Effective date.

             TITLE VI--INTERNATIONAL FREE MEDIA ACT OF 2003

Sec. 601. Short title.
Sec. 602. Definitions.
Sec. 603. Findings.
Sec. 604. Statements of policy.
Sec. 605. Coordinator for International Free Media.
Sec. 606. United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy and 
              International Media.
Sec. 607. International Free Media Fund.
Sec. 608. Free media promotion activity of the Broadcasting Board of 
              Governors.

                  TITLE VII--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

                   Subtitle A--Reporting Requirements

Sec. 701. Reports to Committee on International Relations.
Sec. 702. Reports concerning the capture and prosecution of 
              paramilitary and other terrorist leaders in Colombia.
Sec. 703. Reports relating to Magen David Adom Society.
Sec. 704. Report concerning the return of portraits of Holocaust 
              victims to the artist Dina Babbitt.
Sec. 705. Report to Congress on use of vested assets.
Sec. 706. Report concerning the conflict in Uganda.
Sec. 707. Requirement for report on United States policy toward Haiti.
Sec. 708. Report on the effects of Plan Colombia on Ecuador.
Sec. 709. Report on actions taken by Pakistan.
Sec. 710. Report on democracy in the Western Hemisphere.
Sec. 711. Report concerning internal and intra-regional conflicts in 
              the Great Lakes region of Africa.

                       Subtitle B--Other Matters

Sec. 721. Sense of Congress relating to East Timor, justice, and 
              rehabilitation.
Sec. 722. Sense of Congress concerning human rights and justice in 
              Indonesia.
Sec. 723. Amendment to the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998.
Sec. 724. Sense of Congress with respect to human rights in Central 
              Asia.
Sec. 725. Technical correction to authorization of appropriations for 
              fiscal year 2003 for Center for Cultural and Technical 
              Interchange Between East and West.
Sec. 726. Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security.

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Sec. 727. Concerning the spread of weapons of mass destruction.
Sec. 728. International agriculture biotechnology information program.
Sec. 729. Refugee resettlement burdensharing.
Sec. 730. Sense of Congress on climate change.
Sec. 731. Sense of Congress regarding migration issues between the 
              United States and Mexico.
Sec. 732. Sense of Congress concerning United States assistance to 
              Palestinian refugees.
Sec. 733. United States policy on World Bank Group loans to Iran.
Sec. 734. Sense of Congress relating to Soviet nuclear tests in 
              Kazakhstan.
Sec. 735. Sense of Congress relating to violence against women.

  DIVISION B--DEFENSE TRADE AND SECURITY ASSISTANCE REFORM ACT OF 2003

                      TITLE X--GENERAL PROVISIONS

Sec. 1001. Short title.
Sec. 1002. Definitions.
Sec. 1003. References to Arms Export Control Act.

   TITLE XI--TERRORIST-RELATED PROHIBITIONS AND ENFORCEMENT MEASURES

Sec. 1101. Eligibility provisions.
Sec. 1102. Weapons transfers to foreign persons in the United States.
Sec. 1103. Coordination of license exemptions with United States law 
              enforcement agencies.
Sec. 1104. Mechanisms to identify persons in violation of certain 
              provisions of law.
Sec. 1105. Comprehensive nature of United States arms embargoes.
Sec. 1106. Transactions with countries supporting acts of international 
              terrorism.
Sec. 1107. Amendments to control of arms exports and imports.
Sec. 1108. High risk exports and end use verification.
Sec. 1109. Concurrent jurisdiction of the Federal Bureau of 
              Investigation.
Sec. 1110. Report on foreign-supplied defense articles, defense 
              services, and dual use goods and technology discovered in 
              Iraq.

           TITLE XII--STRENGTHENING MUNITIONS EXPORT CONTROLS

Sec. 1201. Control of items on Missile Technology Control Regime Annex.
Sec. 1202. Certifications relating to export of certain defense 
              articles and services.
Sec. 1203. Notification requirements for technical assistance and 
              manufacturing licensing agreements with NATO member 
              countries, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan.
Sec. 1204. Strengthening defense cooperation with Australia and the 
              United Kingdom.
Sec. 1205. Training and liaison for small businesses.
Sec. 1206. Study and report relating to co-locating munitions control 
              functions of the Departments of State, Defense, and 
              Homeland Security.

         TITLE XIII--SECURITY ASSISTANCE AND RELATED PROVISIONS

      Subtitle A--Foreign Military Sales and Financing Authorities

Sec. 1301. Authorization of appropriations.
Sec. 1302. Provision of cataloging data and services.
Sec. 1303. Annual estimate and justification for sales program.
Sec. 1304. Adjustment to advance notification requirement for transfer 
              of certain excess defense articles.

       Subtitle B--International Military Education and Training

Sec. 1311. Authorization of appropriations.
Sec. 1312. Annual foreign military training reporting.

              Subtitle C--Assistance for Select Countries

Sec. 1321. Assistance for Israel.
Sec. 1322. Assistance for Egypt.

                  Subtitle D--Miscellaneous Provisions

Sec. 1331. United States War Reserve Stockpiles for Allies.
Sec. 1332. Transfer to Israel of certain defense articles in the United 
              States War Reserve Stockpiles for Allies.
Sec. 1333. Expansion of authorities for loan of material, supplies, and 
              equipment for research and development purposes.
Sec. 1334. Assistance for demining and related activities.
Sec. 1335. Reports relating to Treaty Between the United States and the 
              Russian Federation on Strategic Offensive Reductions.
Sec. 1336. Statement of House of Representatives regarding the Treaty 
              Between the United States and the Russian Federation on 
              Strategic Offensive Reductions.
Sec. 1337. Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund.
Sec. 1338. Maritime interdiction patrol boats for Mozambique.
Sec. 1339. Report on missile defense cooperation.
Sec. 1340. Iran's program to develop a nuclear explosive device.

            TITLE XIV--MISSILE THREAT REDUCTION ACT OF 2003

Sec. 1401. Short title.

  Subtitle A--Strengthening International Missile Nonproliferation Law

Sec. 1411. Findings.
Sec. 1412. Policy of the United States.
Sec. 1413. Sense of Congress.

  Subtitle B--Strengthening United States Missile Nonproliferation Law

Sec. 1421. Probationary period for foreign persons.
Sec. 1422. Strengthening United States missile proliferation sanctions 
              on foreign persons.
Sec. 1423. Comprehensive United States missile proliferation sanctions 
              on all responsible persons.

          Subtitle C--Incentives for Missile Threat Reduction

Sec. 1431. Foreign assistance.
Sec. 1432. Authorization of appropriations.
Sec. 1433. Authorization of technical assistance in missile 
              disarmament.

  TITLE XV--PROMOTION OF DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND RULE OF LAW IN 
                                BELARUS

Sec. 1501. Assistance to promote democracy and civil society in 
              Belarus.
Sec. 1502. Radio broadcasting to Belarus.
Sec. 1503. Sense of Congress relating to sanctions against the 
              Government of Belarus.
Sec. 1504. Multilateral cooperation.
Sec. 1505. Report.
Sec. 1506. Definitions.

      TITLE XVI--ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN PEACE ENHANCEMENT ACT OF 2003

Sec. 1601. Short title.
Sec. 1602. Findings.
Sec. 1603. Purposes.
Sec. 1604. Sense of Congress.
Sec. 1605. Recognition of a Palestinian state.
Sec. 1606. Limitation on assistance to a Palestinian state.
Sec. 1607. Authorization of assistance to a Palestinian state.

        TITLE XVII--MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN ASSISTANCE PROVISIONS

Sec. 1701. Additional authorities relating to international narcotics 
              control assistance.
Sec. 1702. United States opium eradication program in Colombia.
Sec. 1703. Cooperative Development Program.
Sec. 1704. West Bank and Gaza Program.
Sec. 1705. Annual human rights country reports on incitement to acts of 
              discrimination.
Sec. 1706. Assistance to East Timor.
Sec. 1707. Support for democracy-building efforts for Cuba.
Sec. 1708. Amendment to the Afghanistan Freedom Support Act of 2002.
Sec. 1709. Congo Basin Forest Partnership.
Sec. 1710. Combatting the piracy of United States copyrighted 
              materials.
Sec. 1711. Assistance for law enforcement forces in certain foreign 
              countries.
Sec. 1712. Human Rights and Democracy Fund.
Sec. 1713. Enhanced police training.
Sec. 1714. Promoting a secure and democratic Afghanistan.
Sec. 1715. Grants to the Africa Society.

     SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

       In this Act:
       (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
     ``appropriate congressional committees'' means the Committee 
     on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on 
     International Relations of the House of Representatives.
       (2) Department.--The term ``Department'' means the 
     Department of State.
       (3) Secretary.--Except as otherwise provided, the term 
     ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of State.

 DIVISION A--DEPARTMENT OF STATE AUTHORIZATION ACT, FISCAL YEARS 2004 
                                AND 2005

     SEC. 101. SHORT TITLE.

       This division may be cited as the ``Department of State 
     Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2004 and 2005''.

               TITLE I--AUTHORIZATIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS

                    Subtitle A--Department of State

     SEC. 111. ADMINISTRATION OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

       (a) In General.--The following amounts are authorized to be 
     appropriated for the Department under ``Administration of 
     Foreign Affairs'' to carry out the authorities, functions, 
     duties, and responsibilities in the conduct of the foreign 
     affairs of the United States, and for other purposes 
     authorized by law, including public diplomacy activities and 
     the diplomatic security program:
       (1) Diplomatic and consular programs.--
       (A) Authorization of appropriations.--For ``Diplomatic and 
     Consular Programs'', $4,187,544,000 for the fiscal year 2004 
     and $4,438,796,000 for the fiscal year 2005.
       (B) Public diplomacy.--
       (i) In general.--Of the amounts authorized to be 
     appropriated by subparagraph (A), $320,930,000 for the fiscal 
     year 2004 and $329,838,000 for the fiscal year 2005 is 
     authorized to be appropriated for public diplomacy.
       (ii) Improvements in public diplomacy programs.--Of the 
     amounts authorized to be appropriated under clause (i) 
     $20,000,000 for the fiscal year 2004 and $20,000,000 for the 
     fiscal year 2005 is authorized to be available for 
     improvements and modernization of public diplomacy programs 
     and activities of the Department of State.
       (iii) Translation services.--Of the amounts authorized to 
     be appropriated under clause (i), $4,000,000 for the fiscal 
     year 2004 and $4,000,000 for the fiscal year 2005 is 
     authorized to be available for translation services available 
     to public affairs officers in overseas posts.
       (C) Worldwide security upgrades.--Of the amounts authorized 
     to be appropriated by subparagraph (A), $646,701,000 for the 
     fiscal year 2004 and $679,036,000 for the fiscal year 2005 is 
     authorized to be appropriated for worldwide security 
     upgrades.

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       (D) Bureau of democracy, human rights, and labor.--Of the 
     amounts authorized to be appropriated by subparagraph (A), 
     $20,000,000 for the fiscal year 2004 and $20,000,000 for the 
     fiscal year 2005 is authorized to be appropriated for 
     salaries and expenses of the Bureau of Democracy, Human 
     Rights, and Labor.
       (E) Recruitment of minority groups.--Of the amount 
     authorized to be appropriated by subparagraph (A), $2,000,000 
     for the fiscal year 2004 and $2,000,000 for the fiscal year 
     2005 is authorized to be appropriated for the recruitment of 
     members of minority groups for careers in the Foreign Service 
     and international affairs.
       (2) Capital investment fund.--For ``Capital Investment 
     Fund'', $157,000,000 for the fiscal year 2004 and 
     $161,710,000 for the fiscal year 2005.
       (3) Embassy security, construction and maintenance.--
       (A) In general.--For ``Embassy Security, Construction and 
     Maintenance'', $653,000,000 for the fiscal year 2004 and 
     $784,000,000 for the fiscal year 2005, in addition to amounts 
     otherwise authorized to be appropriated for such purpose 
     by section 604 of the Admiral James W. Nance and Meg 
     Donovan Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 
     2000 and 2001 (as enacted into law by section 1000(a)(7) 
     of Public Law 106-113 and contained in appendix G of that 
     Act; 113 Stat. 1501A-470).
       (B) Amendment of the nance-donovan foreign relations 
     authorization act.--Section 604(a) of the Admiral James W. 
     Nance and Meg Donovan Foreign Relations Authorization Act, 
     Fiscal Years 2000 and 2001 (113 Stat. 1501A-453) is amended--
       (i) at the end of paragraph (4) by striking ``and'';
       (ii) in paragraph (5) by striking ``$900,000,000.'' and 
     inserting ``$1,000,000,000; and''; and
       (iii) by inserting after paragraph (5) the following:
       ``(6) for fiscal year 2005, $1,000,000,000.''.
       (4) Representation allowances.--For ``Representation 
     Allowances'', $9,000,000 for the fiscal year 2004 and 
     $9,000,000 for the fiscal year 2005.
       (5) Protection of foreign missions and officials.--For 
     ``Protection of Foreign Missions and Officials'', $10,000,000 
     for the fiscal year 2004 and $10,000,000 for the fiscal year 
     2005.
       (6) Emergencies in the diplomatic and consular service.--
     For ``Emergencies in the Diplomatic and Consular Service'', 
     $1,000,000 for the fiscal year 2004 and such sums as may be 
     necessary for the fiscal year 2005.
       (7) Repatriation loans.--For ``Repatriation Loans'', 
     $1,219,000 for the fiscal year 2004 and $1,219,000 for the 
     fiscal year 2005.
       (8) Payment to the american institute in taiwan.--For 
     ``Payment to the American Institute in Taiwan'', $19,773,000 
     for the fiscal year 2004 and $20,761,000 for the fiscal year 
     2005.
       (9) Office of the inspector general.--For ``Office of the 
     Inspector General'', $31,703,000 for the fiscal year 2004 and 
     $32,654,000 for the fiscal year 2005.
       (b) Availability of Funds for Protection of Foreign 
     Missions and Officials.--The amount appropriated pursuant to 
     subsection (a)(5) is authorized to remain available through 
     September 30, 2006.

     SEC. 112. UNITED STATES EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL PROGRAMS.

       (a) In General.--Amounts in this section are authorized to 
     be appropriated for the Department of State to carry out 
     educational and cultural programs of the Department of State 
     under the United States Information and Educational Exchange 
     Act of 1948, the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act 
     of 1961, Reorganization Plan Number 2 of 1977, the Foreign 
     Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998, the Center for 
     Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West Act 
     of 1960, the Dante B. Fascell North-South Center Act of 1991, 
     and the National Endowment for Democracy Act, and to carry 
     out other authorities in law consistent with such purposes.
       (b) Educational and Cultural Exchange Programs.--
       (1) Authorization of appropriations.--For ``Educational and 
     Cultural Exchange Programs'', $393,000,000 for the fiscal 
     year 2004 and $405,000,000 for the fiscal year 2005.
       (2) Programs in eastern europe and former soviet union.--Of 
     the amounts authorized to be appropriated under paragraph 
     (1), $150,000,000 for the fiscal year 2004 and $150,000,000 
     for the fiscal year 2005 is authorized to be available for 
     programs in Eastern Europe and countries of the former Soviet 
     Union.
       (3) Academic exchange programs.--
       (A) In general.--Of the amounts authorized to be 
     appropriated under paragraph (1), $142,000,000 for the fiscal 
     year 2004 and $142,000,000 for the fiscal year 2005 is 
     authorized to be available for the ``Academic Exchange 
     Programs'' (other than programs described in paragraph (4)).
       (B) Hiv/aids initiative.--Of the amounts authorized to be 
     available under subparagraph (A), $1,000,000 for the fiscal 
     year 2004 and $1,000,000 for the fiscal year 2005 is 
     authorized to be available for HIV/AIDS research and 
     mitigation strategies.
       (C) Fulbright english teaching assistant program in 
     korea.--Of the amounts authorized to be available by 
     subparagraph (A), $750,000 for the fiscal year 2004 and 
     $750,000 for the fiscal year 2005 is authorized to be 
     available for the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant 
     Program in Korea, which sends United States citizen students 
     to serve as English language teaching assistants at Korean 
     colleges and high schools.
       (D) Dante b. fascell north-south center.--Of the amounts 
     authorized to be available by subparagraph (A), $1,025,000 
     for the fiscal year 2004 and $1,025,000 for the fiscal year 
     2005 is authorized to be available for the ``Dante B. Fascell 
     North-South Center''.
       (E) George j. mitchell scholarship program.--Of the amounts 
     authorized to be available under subparagraph (A), $500,000 
     for the fiscal year 2004 and $500,000 for the fiscal year 
     2005 is authorized to be available for the ``George J. 
     Mitchell Scholarship Program'' which provides for one year of 
     postgraduate study for American scholars at institutions of 
     higher education in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
       (4) Other educational and cultural exchange programs.--
       (A) In general.--Of the amounts authorized to be 
     appropriated under paragraph (1), $110,000,000 for the fiscal 
     year 2004 and $110,000,000 for the fiscal year 2005 is 
     authorized to be available for other educational and cultural 
     exchange programs authorized by law.
       (B) Initiatives for predominantly muslim countries.--Of the 
     amounts authorized to be available under subparagraph (A), 
     $35,000,000 for the fiscal year 2004 and $35,000,000 for the 
     fiscal year 2005 is authorized to be available for 
     initiatives for predominantly Muslim countries established 
     under section 251.
       (C) Tibetan exchanges.--Of the amounts authorized to be 
     available under subparagraph (A), $500,000 for the fiscal 
     year 2004 and $500,000 for the fiscal year 2005 is authorized 
     to be available for ``Ngawang Choephel Exchange Programs'' 
     (formerly known as ``programs of educational and cultural 
     exchange between the United States and the people of Tibet'') 
     under section 103(a) of the Human Rights, Refugee, and Other 
     Foreign Relations Provisions Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-
     319).
       (D) East timorese scholarships.--Of the amounts authorized 
     to be available under subparagraph (A), $1,000,000 for the 
     fiscal year 2004 and $1,000,000 for the fiscal year 2005 is 
     authorized to be available for ``East Timorese 
     Scholarships''.
       (E) South pacific exchanges.--Of the amounts authorized to 
     be available under subparagraph (A), $750,000 for the fiscal 
     year 2004 and $750,000 for the fiscal year 2005 is authorized 
     to be available for ``South Pacific Exchanges''.
       (F) Sudanese scholarships.--Of the amounts authorized to be 
     available under subparagraph (A), $500,000 for the fiscal 
     year 2004 and $500,000 for the fiscal year 2005 is authorized 
     to be available for scholarships for students from southern 
     Sudan for secondary or postsecondary education in the United 
     States, to be known as ``Sudanese Scholarships''.
       (G) Summer institutes for korean students.--Of the amounts 
     authorized to be available under subparagraph (A), $750,000 
     for the fiscal year 2004 and $750,000 for the fiscal year 
     2005 is authorized to be available for summer academic study 
     programs in the United States (focusing on United States 
     political systems, government institutions, society, and 
     democratic culture) for college and university students from 
     the Republic of Korea, to be known as the ``United States 
     Summer Institutes for Korean Student Leaders''.
       (H) Scholarships for indigenous peoples of mexico and 
     central and south america.--Of the amounts authorized to be 
     available under subparagraph (A), $400,000 for the fiscal 
     year 2004 and $400,000 for the fiscal year 2005 is authorized 
     to be available for scholarships for postsecondary education 
     in the United States for students from Mexico and the 
     countries of Central and South America who are from the 
     indigenous peoples of the region.
       (c) National Endowment for Democracy.--
       (1) In general.--For the ``National Endowment for 
     Democracy'', $45,000,000 for the fiscal year 2004 and 
     $47,000,000 for the fiscal year 2005.
       (2) Initiatives for predominantly muslim countries.--Of the 
     amounts authorized to be appropriated under paragraph (1), 
     $3,000,000 for the fiscal year 2004 and $3,000,000 for the 
     fiscal year 2005 is authorized to be available for the 
     National Endowment for Democracy to fund programs that 
     promote democracy, good governance, the rule of law, 
     independent media, religious tolerance, the rights of women, 
     and strengthening of civil society in countries of 
     predominantly Muslim population within the jurisdiction of 
     the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs of the Department of 
     State.
       (d) Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between 
     East and West.--For the ``Center for Cultural and Technical 
     Interchange between East and West'', $14,280,000 for the 
     fiscal year 2004 and $14,280,000 for the fiscal year 2005.
       (e) Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows.--For the ``Reagan-
     Fascell Democracy Fellows'', for fellowships for democracy 
     activists and scholars from around the world at the 
     International Forum for Democratic Studies in Washington, 
     D.C., to study, write, and exchange views with other 
     activists and scholars and with Americans, $1,000,000 for the 
     fiscal year 2004 and $1,000,000 for the fiscal year 2005.
       (f) Benjamin Gilman International Scholarship Program.--
     Section 305 of the Microenterprise for Self-Reliance and 
     International Anti-Corruption Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 2462 
     note) is amended by striking ``$1,500,000'' and inserting 
     ``$2,500,000''.

     SEC. 113. CONTRIBUTIONS TO INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS.

       (a) Assessed Contributions to International 
     Organizations.--There is authorized to be appropriated under 
     the heading ``Contributions to International Organizations'' 
     $1,010,463,000 for the fiscal year 2004 and $1,040,776,000 
     for the fiscal year 2005 for the Department to carry out the 
     authorities, functions, duties, and responsibilities in the 
     conduct of the foreign affairs of the United States with 
     respect to international organizations and to carry out other 
     authorities in law consistent with such purposes.
       (b) Contributions for International Peacekeeping 
     Activities.--There is authorized

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     to be appropriated under the heading ``Contributions for 
     International Peacekeeping Activities'' $550,200,000 for the 
     fiscal year 2004 and such sums as may be necessary for the 
     fiscal year 2005 for the Department to carry out the 
     authorities, functions, duties, and responsibilities in the 
     conduct of the foreign affairs of the United States with 
     respect to international peacekeeping activities and to carry 
     out other authorities in law consistent with such purposes.
       (c) Foreign Currency Exchange Rates.--
       (1) Authorization of appropriations.--In addition to the 
     amounts authorized to be appropriated by subsection (a), 
     there is authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 
     necessary for the fiscal years 2004 and 2005 to offset 
     adverse fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates.
       (2) Availability of funds.--Amounts appropriated under this 
     subsection may be available for obligation and expenditure 
     only to the extent that the Director of the Office of 
     Management and Budget determines and certifies to the 
     appropriate congressional committees that such amounts are 
     necessary due to such fluctuations.
       (d) Refund of Excess Contributions.--The United States 
     shall continue to insist that the United Nations and its 
     specialized and affiliated agencies shall credit or refund to 
     each member of the organization or agency concerned its 
     proportionate share of the amount by which the total 
     contributions to the organization or agency exceed the 
     expenditures of the regular assessed budget of the 
     organization or agency.

     SEC. 114. INTERNATIONAL COMMISSIONS.

       The following amounts are authorized to be appropriated 
     under ``International Commissions'' for the Department to 
     carry out the authorities, functions, duties, and 
     responsibilities in the conduct of the foreign affairs of the 
     United States with respect to international commissions, and 
     for other purposes authorized by law:
       (1) International boundary and water commission, united 
     states and mexico.--For ``International Boundary and Water 
     Commission, United States and Mexico''--
       (A) for ``Salaries and Expenses'', $31,562,000 for the 
     fiscal year 2004 and $31,562,000 for the fiscal year 2005; 
     and
       (B) for ``Construction'', $8,901,000 for the fiscal year 
     2004 and $8,901,000 for the fiscal year 2005.
       (2) International boundary commission, united states and 
     canada.--For ``International Boundary Commission, United 
     States and Canada'', $1,261,000 for the fiscal year 2004 and 
     $1,261,000 for the fiscal year 2005.
       (3) International joint commission.--For ``International 
     Joint Commission'', $7,810,000 for the fiscal year 2004 and 
     $7,810,000 for the fiscal year 2005.
       (4) International fisheries commissions.--For 
     ``International Fisheries Commissions'', $20,043,000 for the 
     fiscal year 2004 and $20,043,000 for the fiscal year 2005.

     SEC. 115. MIGRATION AND REFUGEE ASSISTANCE.

       (a) In General.--There is authorized to be appropriated for 
     the Department for ``Migration and Refugee Assistance'' for 
     authorized activities, $927,000,000 for the fiscal year 2004 
     and $957,000,000 for the fiscal year 2005.
       (b) Refugees Resettling in Israel.--Of the amount 
     authorized to be appropriated by subsection (a), $50,000,000 
     for the fiscal year 2004 and $50,000,000 for the fiscal year 
     2005 is authorized to be available for the resettlement of 
     refugees in Israel.
       (c) Tibetan Refugees in India and Nepal.--Of the amount 
     authorized to be appropriated by subsection (a), $2,000,000 
     for the fiscal year 2004 and $2,000,000 for the fiscal year 
     2005 is authorized to be available for humanitarian 
     assistance, including food, medicine, clothing, and medical 
     and vocational training, to Tibetan refugees in India and 
     Nepal who have fled Chinese-occupied Tibet.
       (d) Humanitarian Assistance for Displaced Burmese.--Of the 
     amount authorized to be appropriated by subsection (a), 
     $2,000,000 for the fiscal year 2004 and $2,000,000 for the 
     fiscal year 2005 is authorized to be available for 
     humanitarian assistance (including food, medicine, clothing, 
     and medical and vocational training) to persons displaced as 
     a result of civil conflict in Burma, including persons still 
     within Burma.
       (e) Availability of Funds.--Funds appropriated pursuant to 
     this section are authorized to remain available until 
     expended.

     SEC. 116. VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS TO INTERNATIONAL 
                   ORGANIZATIONS.

       (a) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized 
     to be appropriated for the Department of State for 
     ``Voluntary Contributions to International Organizations'', 
     $342,555,000 for the fiscal year 2004 and $345,000,000 for 
     the fiscal year 2005.
       (b) United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture.--
     Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated under subsection 
     (a), $6,000,000 for the fiscal year 2004 and $7,000,000 for 
     the fiscal year 2005 is authorized to be available for a 
     United States voluntary contribution to the United Nations 
     Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture.
       (c) Organization of American States.--Of the amounts 
     authorized to be appropriated under subsection (a) $2,000,000 
     for fiscal years 2004 and 2005 is authorized to be available 
     for a United States voluntary contribution to the 
     Organization of American States for the Inter-American 
     Committee Against Terrorism (CICTE) to identify and develop a 
     port in the Latin American and Caribbean region into a model 
     of best security practices and appropriate technologies for 
     improving port security in the Western Hemisphere. Amounts 
     authorized to be available by the preceding sentence are 
     authorized to remain available until expended and are in 
     addition to amounts otherwise available to carry out section 
     301 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2221).
       (d) Restrictions on United States Contributions to United 
     Nations Development Program.--
       (1) Limitation.--Of the amounts made available under 
     subsection (a) for each of the fiscal years 2004 and 2005 for 
     United States contributions to the United Nations Development 
     Program an amount equal to the amount the United Nations 
     Development Program will spend in Burma during each fiscal 
     year shall be withheld unless during such fiscal year the 
     Secretary of State submits to the appropriate congressional 
     committees the certification described in paragraph (2).
       (2) Certification.--The certification referred to in 
     paragraph (1) is a certification by the Secretary of State 
     that all programs and activities of the United Nations 
     Development Program (including United Nations Development 
     Program--Administered Funds) in Burma--
       (A) are focused on eliminating human suffering and 
     addressing the needs of the poor;
       (B) are undertaken only through international or private 
     voluntary organizations that have been deemed independent of 
     the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) (formerly 
     known as the State Law and Order Restoration Council 
     (SLORC)), after consultation with the leadership of the 
     National League for Democracy and the leadership of the 
     National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma;
       (C) provide no financial, political, or military benefit to 
     the SPDC; and
       (D) are carried out only after consultation with the 
     leadership of the National League for Democracy and the 
     leadership of the National Coalition Government of the Union 
     of Burma.
       (e) United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).--
       (1) Authorization of appropriations.--Of the amounts 
     authorized to be appropriated under subsection (a), 
     $50,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2004 and 2005 is 
     authorized only to be available for a United States voluntary 
     contribution to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
       (2) Permanent guidelines for voluntary contributions to 
     unfpa.--Section 301 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 
     U.S.C. 2221) is amended by inserting after subsection (a) the 
     following new subsection:
       ``(b)(1) For fiscal year 2004 and each subsequent fiscal 
     year, funds appropriated to the President or the Department 
     of State under any law for a voluntary contribution to the 
     United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) may be obligated and 
     expended for such purpose beginning 30 days after such funds 
     become available and only if the President certifies to the 
     Congress that the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) does 
     not directly support or participate in coercive abortion or 
     involuntary sterilization. The certification authority of the 
     President under the preceding sentence may not be delegated.
       ``(2) In paragraph (1), the term `directly supports or 
     participates in coercive abortion or involuntary 
     sterilization' means knowingly and intentionally working with 
     a purpose to continue, advance, or expand the practice of 
     coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization, or playing a 
     primary and essential role in a coercive or involuntary 
     aspect of a country's family planning program.''.

     SEC. 117. VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL 
                   PEACEKEEPING ACTIVITIES.

       (a) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized 
     to be appropriated for the Department of State for 
     ``Voluntary Contributions for International Peacekeeping'', 
     $110,000,000 for the fiscal year 2004 and $110,000,000 for 
     the fiscal year 2005.
       (b) Peacekeeping in Africa.--Of the amounts authorized to 
     be appropriated under subsection (a), $40,000,000 for the 
     fiscal year 2004 and such sums as may be necessary for the 
     fiscal year 2005 is authorized to be appropriated for 
     peacekeeping activities in Africa.

     SEC. 118. GRANTS TO THE ASIA FOUNDATION.

       Section 404 of The Asia Foundation Act (title IV of Public 
     Law 98-164; 22 U.S.C. 4403) is amended to read as follows:
       ``Sec. 404. There is authorized to be appropriated to the 
     Secretary of State $18,000,000 for the fiscal year 2004 and 
     $18,000,000 for the fiscal year 2005 for grants to The Asia 
     Foundation pursuant to this title.''.

    Subtitle B--United States International Broadcasting Activities

     SEC. 121. AUTHORIZATIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS.

       The following amounts are authorized to be appropriated to 
     carry out United States Government broadcasting activities 
     under the United States Information and Educational Exchange 
     Act of 1948, the United States International Broadcasting Act 
     of 1994, the Radio Broadcasting to Cuba Act, the Television 
     Broadcasting to Cuba Act, and the Foreign Affairs Reform and 
     Restructuring Act of 1998, and to carry out other authorities 
     in law consistent with such purposes:
       (1) International broadcasting operations.--
       (A) In general.--For ``International Broadcasting 
     Operations'', $600,354,000 for the fiscal year 2004 and 
     $612,146,000 for the fiscal year 2005.
       (B) Allocation of funds.--Of the amounts authorized to be 
     appropriated by subparagraph (A), there is authorized to be 
     available for Radio Free Asia $30,000,000 for the fiscal year 
     2004 and $30,000,000 for the fiscal year 2005.
       (C) Office of global internet freedom.--Of the amounts 
     authorized to be appropriated by subparagraph (A), there is 
     authorized to be available for the Broadcasting Board of 
     Governors for the establishment and operations of the Office 
     of Global Internet Freedom under section 524(a) $8,000,000 
     for the fiscal year 2004 and $8,000,000 for the fiscal year 
     2005.

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       (2) Broadcasting capital improvements.--For ``Broadcasting 
     Capital Improvements'', $29,895,000 for the fiscal year 2004 
     and $11,395,000 for the fiscal year 2005.
       (3) Broadcasting to cuba.--For ``Broadcasting to Cuba'', 
     $26,901,000 for the fiscal year 2004 and $27,439,000 for the 
     fiscal year 2005.

        TITLE II--DEPARTMENT OF STATE AUTHORITIES AND ACTIVITIES

               Subtitle A--United States Public Diplomacy

     SEC. 201. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.

       (a) Findings.--The Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) The United States possesses strong and deep connections 
     with the peoples of the world separate from its relations 
     with their governments. These connections can be a major 
     asset in the promotion of United States interests and foreign 
     policy.
       (2) Misinformation and hostile propaganda in these 
     countries regarding the United States and its foreign policy 
     endanger the interests of the United States. Existing efforts 
     to counter such misinformation and propaganda are inadequate 
     and must be greatly enhanced in both scope and substance.
       (3) United States foreign policy has been hampered by an 
     insufficient consideration of the importance of public 
     diplomacy in the formulation and implementation of that 
     policy and by the underuse of modern communication 
     techniques.
       (4) The United States should have an operational strategy 
     and a coordinated effort regarding the utilization of its 
     public diplomacy resources.
       (5) The development of an operational strategy and a 
     coordinated effort by United States agencies regarding public 
     diplomacy would greatly enhance United States foreign policy.
       (6) The Secretary of State has undertaken efforts to ensure 
     that of the new positions established at the Department of 
     State after September 30, 2002, a significant proportion are 
     for public diplomacy.
       (b) Purposes.--It is the purpose of this subtitle to 
     enhance in scope and substance, redirect, redefine, and 
     reorganize United States public diplomacy.

     SEC. 202. PUBLIC DIPLOMACY RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT 
                   OF STATE.

       (a) In General.--The State Department Basic Authorities Act 
     of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 265 et seq.) is amended by inserting after 
     section 58 the following new section:

     ``SEC. 59. PUBLIC DIPLOMACY RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE 
                   DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

       ``(a) In General.--The Secretary of State shall make public 
     diplomacy an integral component in the planning and execution 
     of United States foreign policy. The Department of State, in 
     coordination with the United States International 
     Broadcasting Agency, shall develop a comprehensive strategy 
     for the use of public diplomacy resources and assume a 
     prominent role in coordinating the efforts of all Federal 
     agencies involved in public diplomacy. Public diplomacy 
     efforts shall be addressed to developed and developing 
     countries, to select and general audiences, and shall utilize 
     all available media to ensure that the foreign policy of the 
     United States is properly explained and understood not only 
     by the governments of countries but also by their peoples, 
     with the objective of enhancing support for United States 
     foreign policy. The Secretary shall ensure that the public 
     diplomacy strategy of the United States is cohesive and 
     coherent and shall aggressively and through the most 
     effective mechanisms counter misinformation and propaganda 
     concerning the United States. The Secretary shall endeavor to 
     articulate the importance in American foreign policy of the 
     guiding principles and doctrines of the United States, 
     particularly freedom and democracy. The Secretary, in 
     coordination with the Board of Governors of the United States 
     International Broadcasting Agency, shall develop and 
     articulate long-term measurable objectives for United States 
     public diplomacy. The Secretary is authorized to produce and 
     distribute public diplomacy programming for distribution 
     abroad in order to achieve public diplomacy objectives, 
     including through satellite communication, the Internet, and 
     other established and emerging communications technologies.
       ``(b) Information Concerning United States Assistance.--
       ``(1) Identification of assistance.--In cooperation with 
     the United States Agency for International Development 
     (USAID) and other public and private assistance organizations 
     and agencies, the Secretary shall ensure that information 
     concerning foreign assistance provided by the United States 
     Government, United States nongovernmental organizations and 
     private entities, and the American people is disseminated 
     widely and prominently, particularly, to the extent 
     practicable, within countries and regions that receive such 
     assistance. The Secretary shall ensure that, to the extent 
     practicable, projects funded by the United States Agency for 
     International Development (USAID) that do not involve 
     commodities, including projects implemented by private 
     voluntary organizations, are identified as being supported by 
     the United States of America, as American Aid or provided by 
     the American people.
       ``(2) Report to congress.--Not later than 120 days after 
     the end of each fiscal year, the Secretary shall submit a 
     report to the Committee on International Relations of the 
     House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign 
     Relations of the Senate on efforts to disseminate information 
     concerning assistance described in paragraph (1) during the 
     preceding fiscal year. Each such report shall include 
     specific information concerning all instances in which the 
     United States Agency for International Development has not 
     identified projects in the manner prescribed in paragraph (1) 
     because such identification was not practicable. Any such 
     report shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may 
     include a classified appendix.
       ``(c) Authority.--Subject to the availability of 
     appropriations, the Secretary may contract with and 
     compensate government and private agencies or persons for 
     property and services to carry out this section.''.
       (b) Establishment of Public Diplomacy Reserve Corps.--
       (1) The Secretary of State shall establish a public 
     diplomacy reserve corps to augment the public diplomacy 
     capacity and capabilities of the Department in emergency and 
     critical circumstances worldwide. The Secretary shall develop 
     a contingency plan for the use of the corps to bolster 
     public diplomacy resources and expertise. To the extent 
     necessary and appropriate, the Secretary may recruit 
     experts in public diplomacy and related fields from the 
     private sector.
       (2) While actively serving with the reserve corps, 
     individuals are prohibited from engaging in activities 
     directly or indirectly intended to influence public opinion 
     within the United States to the same degree that employees of 
     the Department engaged in public diplomacy are so prohibited.
       (c) Functions of the Under Secretary for Public 
     Diplomacy.--
       (1) Section 1(b)(3) of the State Department Basic 
     Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2651a(b)(3)) is amended by 
     striking ``formation'' and all that follows through the 
     period at the end and inserting ``formation, supervision, and 
     implementation of United States public diplomacy policies, 
     programs, and activities, including the provision of guidance 
     to Department personnel in the United States and overseas who 
     conduct or implement such policies, programs, and activities. 
     The Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy shall assist the 
     United States Agency for International Broadcasting in 
     presenting the policies of the United States clearly and 
     effectively, shall submit statements of United States policy 
     and editorial material to the Agency for broadcast 
     consideration in addition to material prepared by the Agency, 
     and shall ensure that editorial material created by the 
     Agency for broadcast is reviewed expeditiously by the 
     Department.''.
       (2) The Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy, in carrying 
     out the functions under the last sentence of section 1(b)(3) 
     of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (as 
     added by paragraph (1), shall consult with public diplomacy 
     officers operating at United States overseas posts and in the 
     regional bureaus of the Department of State.

     SEC. 203. ANNUAL PLAN ON PUBLIC DIPLOMACY STRATEGY.

       The Secretary of State, in coordination with all 
     appropriate Federal agencies, shall prepare an annual review 
     and analysis of the impact of public diplomacy efforts on 
     target audiences. Each review shall assess the United States 
     public diplomacy strategy worldwide and by region, including 
     the allocation of resources and an evaluation and assessment 
     of the progress in, and barriers to, achieving the goals set 
     forth under previous plans submitted under this section. On 
     the basis of such review, the Secretary of State, in 
     coordination with all appropriate Federal agencies shall 
     develop and submit, as part of the annual budget submission, 
     a public diplomacy strategy which specifies goals, agency 
     responsibilities, and necessary resources and mechanisms for 
     achieving such goals during the next fiscal year. The plan 
     may be submitted in classified form.

     SEC. 204. PUBLIC DIPLOMACY TRAINING.

       (a) Findings.--The Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) The Foreign Service should recruit individuals with 
     expertise and professional experience in public diplomacy.
       (2) Ambassadors should have a prominent role in the 
     formulation of public diplomacy strategies for the countries 
     and regions to which they are assigned and be accountable for 
     the operation and success of public diplomacy efforts at 
     their posts.
       (3) Initial and subsequent training of Foreign Service 
     officers should be enhanced to include information and 
     training on public diplomacy and the tools and technology of 
     mass communication.
       (b) Personnel.--
       (1) In the recruitment, training, and assignment of members 
     of the Foreign Service, the Secretary shall emphasize the 
     importance of public diplomacy and of applicable skills and 
     techniques. The Secretary shall consider the priority 
     recruitment into the Foreign Service, at middle-level entry, 
     of individuals with expertise and professional experience in 
     public diplomacy, mass communications, or journalism, 
     especially individuals with language facility and experience 
     in particular countries and regions.
       (2) The Secretary of State shall seek to increase the 
     number of Foreign Service officers proficient in languages 
     spoken in predominantly Muslim countries. Such increase shall 
     be accomplished through the recruitment of new officers and 
     incentives for officers in service.

     SEC. 205. UNITED STATES ADVISORY COMMISSION ON PUBLIC 
                   DIPLOMACY.

       (a) Study and Report by United States Advisory Commission 
     on Public Diplomacy.--Section 604(c)(2) of the United States 
     Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (22 U.S.C. 
     1469(c)(2)) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(2)(A) Not less often than every two years, the 
     Commission shall undertake an in-depth review of United 
     States public diplomacy programs, policies, and activities. 
     Each study shall assess the effectiveness of the various 
     mechanisms of United States public diplomacy, in light of 
     factors including public and media attitudes around the world 
     toward the United States, Americans, United States foreign 
     policy, and the role of the American private-sector community 
     abroad, and make appropriate recommendations.

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       ``(B) A comprehensive report of each study under 
     subparagraph (A) shall be submitted to the Secretary of State 
     and the appropriate congressional committees. At the 
     discretion of the Commission, any report under this 
     subsection may be submitted in classified or unclassified 
     form, as appropriate.''.
       (b) Information and Support From Other Agencies.--Upon 
     request of the United States Advisory Commission on Public 
     Diplomacy, the Secretary of State, the Director of the United 
     States International Broadcasting Agency, and the head of any 
     other Federal agency that conducts public diplomacy programs 
     and activities shall provide information to the Advisory 
     Commission to assist in carrying out the responsibilities 
     under section 604(c)(2) of the United States Information and 
     Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (as amended by subsection 
     (a)).
       (c) Enhancing the Expertise of United States Advisory 
     Commission on Public Diplomacy.--
       (1) Qualifications of members.--Section 604(a)(2) of the 
     United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 
     1948 (22 U.S.C. 1469(a)(2)) is amended by adding at the end 
     the following: ``At least 4 members shall have substantial 
     experience in the conduct of public diplomacy or 
     comparable activities in the private sector. At least 1 
     member shall be an American residing abroad. No member may 
     be an officer or employee of the United States.''.
       (2) Application of amendment.--The amendments made by 
     paragraph (1) shall not apply to individuals who are members 
     of the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy 
     on the date of the enactment of this Act.

     SEC. 206. LIBRARY PROGRAM.

       The Secretary of State shall develop and implement a 
     demonstration program to assist foreign governments to 
     establish or upgrade their public library systems to improve 
     literacy and support public education. The program should 
     provide training in the library sciences. The purpose of the 
     program shall be to advance American values and society, 
     particularly the importance of freedom and democracy.

     SEC. 207. SENSE OF CONGRESS CONCERNING PUBLIC DIPLOMACY 
                   EFFORTS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA.

       (a) Findings.--The Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) A significant number of sub-Saharan African countries 
     have predominantly Muslim populations, including such key 
     countries as Nigeria, Senegal, Djibouti, Mauritania, and 
     Guinea.
       (2) In several of these countries, groups with links to 
     militant religious organizations are active among the youth, 
     primarily young men, promoting a philosophy and practice of 
     intolerance and radical clerics are effectively mobilizing 
     public sentiment against the United States.
       (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of the Congress 
     that the Secretary should include countries in sub-Saharan 
     Africa with predominantly Muslim populations in the public 
     diplomacy activities authorized by this Act and the 
     amendments made by this Act.

      SEC. 208. THE COLIN POWELL CENTER FOR AMERICAN DIPLOMACY.

       Title I of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 
     1956 is amended by adding after section 59 (22 U.S.C. 2730) 
     the following new section:

     ``SEC. 60. COLIN POWELL CENTER FOR AMERICAN DIPLOMACY.

       ``(a) Designation.--The diplomacy center of the Department 
     of State, located in the Harry S Truman building, is hereby 
     designated as the `Colin Powell Center for American 
     Diplomacy' (hereinafter in this section referred to as the 
     `Center').
       ``(b) Activities.--
       ``(1) Support authorized.--The Secretary of State is 
     authorized to provide by contract, grant, or otherwise, for 
     the performance of appropriate museum visitor and educational 
     outreach services, including organizing conference 
     activities, museum shop services, and food services, in the 
     public exhibit and related space utilized by the Center.
       ``(2) Payment of expenses.--The Secretary may pay all 
     reasonable expenses of conference activities conducted by the 
     Center, including refreshments and reimbursement of travel 
     expenses incurred by participants.
       ``(3) Recovery of costs.--Any revenues generated under the 
     authority of paragraph (1) for visitor services may be 
     retained, as a recovery of the costs of operating the Center, 
     and credited to any Department of State appropriation.
       ``(c) Disposition of Center Artifacts and Materials.--
       ``(1) Property of secretary.--All historic documents, 
     artifacts, or other articles permanently acquired by the 
     Department of State and determined by the Secretary to be 
     suitable for display in the Center shall be considered to be 
     the property of the Secretary in the Secretary's official 
     capacity and shall be subject to disposition solely in 
     accordance with this subsection.
       ``(2) Sale or trade.--Whenever the Secretary makes the 
     determination under paragraph (3) with respect to an item, 
     the Secretary may sell at fair market value, trade, or 
     transfer the item, without regard to the requirements of 
     subtitle I of title 40, United States Code. The proceeds of 
     any such sale may be used solely for the advancement of the 
     Center's mission and may not be used for any purpose other 
     than the acquisition and direct care of collections.
       ``(3) Determinations prior to sale or trade.--The 
     determination referred to in paragraph (2), with respect to 
     an item, is a determination that--
       ``(A) the item no longer serves to further the purposes of 
     the Center established in the collections management policy 
     of the Center; or
       ``(B) in order to maintain the standards of the collections 
     of the Center, the sale or exchange of the item would be a 
     better use of the item.
       ``(4) Loans.--The Secretary may also lend items covered by 
     paragraph (1), when not needed for use or display in the 
     Center, to the Smithsonian Institution or a similar 
     institution for repair, study, or exhibition.''.

              Subtitle B--Basic Authorities and Activities

     SEC. 221. UNITED STATES POLICY WITH RESPECT TO JERUSALEM AS 
                   THE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL.

       (a) Limitation on Use of Funds for Consulate in 
     Jerusalem.--None of the funds authorized to be appropriated 
     by this Act may be expended for the operation of a United 
     States consulate or diplomatic facility in Jerusalem unless 
     such consulate or diplomatic facility is under the 
     supervision of the United States Ambassador to Israel.
       (b) Limitation on Use of Funds for Publications.--None of 
     the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act may be 
     available for the publication of any official government 
     document which lists countries and their capital cities 
     unless the publication identifies Jerusalem as the capital of 
     Israel.
       (c) Record of Place of Birth as Israel for Passport 
     Purposes.--The first section of ``An Act to regulate the 
     issue and validity of passports, and for other purposes'', 
     approved July 3, 1926 (22 U.S.C. 211a; 44 Stat. 887) is 
     amended by inserting after the first sentence the following: 
     ``For purposes of the issuance of a passport of a United 
     States citizen born in the city of Jerusalem, the Secretary 
     shall, upon the request of the citizen or the citizen's 
     legal guardian, record the place of birth as Israel.''.

     SEC. 222. MODIFICATION OF REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.

       (a) Repeal.--Section 805 of the Admiral James W. Nance and 
     Meg Donovan Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 
     2000 and 2001 (section 805(a) of division A of H.R. 3427, as 
     enacted into law by section 1000(a)(7) of Public Law 106-113; 
     appendix G; 113 Stat. 1501A-470) (relating to reports on 
     terrorist activity in which United States citizens were 
     killed and related matters) is hereby repealed.
       (b) Annual Country Reports on Terrorism.--Section 140(b)(2) 
     of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 
     and 1989 (Public Law 100-204; 22 U.S.C. 2656f(b)(2)) is 
     amended--
       (1) in subparagraph (D), by striking ``and'' at the end;
       (2) in subparagraph (E), by striking the period at the end 
     and inserting ``; and''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(F) for the reports due through May 1, 2005, information 
     concerning terrorist attacks in Israel, territory 
     administered by Israel, and territory administered by the 
     Palestinian Authority, including--
       ``(i) a list of all citizens of the United States killed or 
     injured in such attacks during the previous year;
       ``(ii) the date of each attack and the total number of 
     people killed or injured in each attack;
       ``(iii) the person or group claiming responsibility for the 
     attack and where such person or group has found refuge or 
     support;
       ``(iv) to the extent possible, a list of suspects 
     implicated in each attack and the nationality of each 
     suspect, including information on their whereabouts (or 
     suspected whereabouts);
       ``(v) a list of any terrorist suspects in these cases who 
     are members of Palestinian police or security forces, the 
     Palestine Liberation Organization, or any Palestinian 
     governing body;
       ``(vi) the status of each case pending against a suspect, 
     including information on whether the suspect has been 
     arrested, detained, indicted, prosecuted, or convicted by the 
     Palestinian Authority or Israel, and if detained and then 
     released, the date of such release, and whether any released 
     suspect was implicated in subsequent acts of terrorism;
       ``(vii) available information on convictions, releases or 
     changes in the situation of suspects involved in attacks 
     committed prior to December 31, 2003, and not covered in 
     previous reports submitted under section 805(a) of the 
     Admiral James W. Nance and Meg Donovan Foreign Relations 
     Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2000 and 2001; and
       ``(viii) the policy of the Department of State with respect 
     to offering rewards for information on terrorist suspects, 
     including any information on whether a reward has been posted 
     for suspects involved in terrorist attacks listed in the 
     report.''.
       (c) Consultation.--The Secretary of State shall, in 
     preparing the portion of the annual country reports on 
     terrorism required by subparagraph (F) of section 140(b)(2) 
     of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 
     and 1989 (Public Law 100-204; 22 U.S.C. 2656f(b)(2)), as 
     added by subsection (b), consult and coordinate with all 
     other Government officials who have information necessary to 
     complete that portion of the report. Nothing contained in 
     this subsection shall require the disclosure, on a classified 
     or unclassified basis, of information that would jeopardize 
     sensitive sources and methods or other vital national 
     security interests or jeopardize ongoing criminal 
     investigations or proceedings.

     SEC. 223. REPORT CONCERNING EFFORTS TO PROMOTE ISRAEL'S 
                   DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH OTHER COUNTRIES.

       (a) Findings.--The Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) Israel is a friend and ally of the United States whose 
     security is vital to regional stability and United States 
     interests.
       (2) Israel currently maintains diplomatic relations with 
     approximately 160 countries. Approximately 30 countries do 
     not have any diplomatic relations with Israel.
       (3) The State of Israel has been actively seeking to 
     establish formal relations with a number of countries.

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       (4) The United States should assist its ally, Israel, in 
     its efforts to establish diplomatic relations.
       (5) After more than 50 years of existence, Israel deserves 
     to be treated as an equal nation by its neighbors and the 
     world community.
       (b) Report Concerning United States Efforts To Promote 
     Israel's Diplomatic Relations With Other Countries.--Not 
     later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this 
     Act, the Secretary shall submit a report to the appropriate 
     congressional committees that includes the following 
     information (in classified or unclassified form, as 
     appropriate):
       (1) Actions taken by the United States to encourage other 
     countries to establish full diplomatic relations with Israel.
       (2) Specific responses solicited and received by the 
     Secretary from countries that do not maintain full diplomatic 
     relations with Israel with respect to the status of 
     negotiations to enter into diplomatic relations with Israel.
       (3) Other measures being undertaken, and measures that will 
     be undertaken, by the United States to ensure and promote 
     Israel's full participation in the world diplomatic 
     community.

     SEC. 224. REIMBURSEMENT RATE FOR CERTAIN AIRLIFT SERVICES 
                   PROVIDED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE TO THE 
                   DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

       (a) Authority.--Subsection (a) of section 2642 of title 10, 
     United States Code, is amended--
       (1) by striking ``provided by a component of the Department 
     of Defense to the'' and inserting ``provided by a component 
     of the Department of Defense as follows:
       ``(1) To the''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(2) To the Department of State for the transportation of 
     armored motor vehicles to a foreign country to meet 
     unfulfilled requirements of the Department of State for 
     armored motor vehicles in that foreign country.''.
       (b) Conforming and Clerical Amendments.--(1) The heading 
     for such section is amended to read as follows:

     ``Sec. 2642. Airlift services provided to Central 
       Intelligence Agency and Department of State: reimbursement 
       rate''.

       (2) The item relating to such section in the table of 
     sections at the beginning of chapter 157 of such title is 
     amended to read as follows:

``2642. Airlift services provided to Central Intelligence Agency and 
              Department of State: reimbursement rate.''.

     SEC. 225. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING ADDITIONAL UNITED 
                   STATES CONSULAR POSTS.

       It is the sense of the Congress that to help advance United 
     States economic, political, and public diplomacy interests, 
     the Secretary of State should make best efforts to establish 
     consulates or other appropriate diplomatic presence in: 
     Pusan, South Korea; Medan, Indonesia; and Hat Yai, Thailand.

     SEC. 226. VALIDITY OF UNITED STATES PASSPORTS FOR TRAVEL TO 
                   COUNTRIES RECEIVING UNITED STATES FOREIGN 
                   ASSISTANCE.

       The first section of the Act entitled ``An Act to regulate 
     the issue and validity of passports, and for other 
     purposes'', approved July 3, 1926 (22 U.S.C. 211a) is amended 
     by striking ``travellers.'' and inserting ``travellers, and 
     no such restriction may apply to a country in which the 
     United States is providing assistance authorized by the 
     Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.''.

     SEC. 227. GAO ASSESSMENT OF SECURITY CAPITAL COST SHARING.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 120 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the 
     United States shall submit to the Congress a report on plans 
     for security capital cost sharing between the Department of 
     State and other Federal agencies with personnel assigned to 
     United States diplomatic facilities under the authority of a 
     chief of mission pursuant to section 207 of the Foreign 
     Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3927).
       (b) Report Elements.--In addition to such other information 
     as the Comptroller General considers appropriate, the report 
     described in subsection (a) shall address and make 
     recommendations regarding the following:
       (1) The anticipated projected costs that the Department of 
     State proposes to be paid through an inter-agency security 
     capital cost sharing program.
       (2) The mechanism the Department of State proposes to use 
     in allocating assessments under such a program and any 
     alternatives the General Accounting Office suggests be 
     considered.
       (3) Factors that should be incorporated into any process 
     for implementing such a program and a financial assessment of 
     such factors, including the cost of services provided to the 
     Department of State by other Federal agencies.
       (4) The means of ensuring transparency in the cost 
     assessment process of such a program.
       (5) Mechanisms for adjudicating disagreements among Federal 
     agencies regarding assessed fees under such a program.

     SEC. 228. AUTHORITY TO ISSUE ADMINISTRATIVE SUBPOENAS.

       Section 37 of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 
     1956 (22 U.S.C. 2709) is amended by adding at the end the 
     following new subsection:
       ``(d) Administrative Subpoenas.--
       ``(1) In general.--If the Secretary determines that there 
     is an imminent threat against a person, foreign mission, or 
     international organization protected under the authority of 
     subsection (a)(3), the Secretary may issue in writing, and 
     cause to be served, a subpoena requiring--
       ``(A) the production of any records or other items relevant 
     to the threat; and
       ``(B) testimony by the custodian of the items required to 
     be produced concerning the production and authenticity of 
     those items.
       ``(2) Requirements.--
       ``(A) Return date.--A subpoena under this subsection shall 
     describe the items required to be produced and shall specify 
     a return date within a reasonable period of time within which 
     the requested items may be assembled and made available. The 
     return date specified may not be less than 24 hours after 
     service of the subpoena.
       ``(B) Notification to attorney general.--As soon as 
     practicable following the issuance of a subpoena under this 
     subsection, the Secretary shall notify the Attorney General 
     of its issuance.
       ``(C) Other requirements.--The following provisions of 
     section 3486 of title 18, United States Code, shall apply to 
     the exercise of the authority of paragraph (1):
       ``(i) Paragraphs (4) through (8) of subsection (a).
       ``(ii) Subsections (b), (c), and (d).
       ``(3) Delegation of authority.--The authority under this 
     subsection may be delegated only to the Deputy Secretary of 
     State.
       ``(4) Annual report.--Not later than February 1 of each 
     year, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Foreign 
     Relations of the Senate and the Committee on International 
     Relations of the House of Representatives a report regarding 
     the exercise of the authority under this subsection during 
     the previous calendar year.''.

     SEC. 229. ENHANCING REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT AND MAINTAINING THE 
                   UNITED STATES COMMITMENT TO REFUGEES.

       (a) Findings.--The Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) The United States has a longstanding tradition of 
     providing refugee assistance and relief through the 
     Department of State's migration and refugee assistance 
     account for refugees throughout the world who have been 
     subjected to religious and other forms of persecution.
       (2) A strong refugee resettlement and assistance program is 
     a critical component of the United States' strong commitment 
     to freedom.
       (3) The United States refugee admissions program has been 
     in decline for much of the last five years, resulting in a 
     chronic inability of the United States to meet the ceiling on 
     refugee admissions that has been set by the President each 
     year.
       (4) Refugee applicants have always undergone rigorous 
     security screenings. The September 11, 2001, terrorist 
     attacks on the United States has rightfully increased the 
     awareness of the need to ensure that all aliens seeking 
     admission to the United States would not endanger the United 
     States.
       (5) Private voluntary organizations and nongovernmental 
     organizations (NGOs) have and continue to provide valuable 
     information to State Department officials for refugee 
     processing, and along with Embassy personnel, can be utilized 
     to assist in the preliminary screening of refugees so that 
     State Department officials can focus to a greater extent on 
     security.
       (6) Currently there are 15 million refugees worldwide. In 
     order to meet the ceiling set by the Administration, which 
     has been 70,000 in recent years, a broader cross-section 
     could be considered for resettlement in the United States 
     if the Department of State were to expand existing refugee 
     processing priority categories in a reasonable and 
     responsible manner. Expansion of refugee selection should 
     include the expanded use of both the existing category 
     reserved for refugees of special interest to the United 
     States as well as the existing categories reserved for 
     family reunification.
       (b) Purpose.--It is the purpose of this section to provide 
     the Department of State with tools to enable it to carry out 
     its responsibilities with greater efficiency with respect to 
     the identification and processing of refugee applicants.
       (c) Enhancement of Refugee Identification and Processing.--
       (1) In addition to traditional agencies currently used in 
     the processing of refugees for admission to the United 
     States, where applicable, the Secretary shall develop and 
     utilize partnerships with voluntary resettlement 
     organizations that permit such organizations to assist in the 
     identification and referral of refugees.
       (2) In addition to traditional agencies currently used in 
     the processing of refugees for admission to the United 
     States, where applicable, the Secretary shall utilize private 
     voluntary organizations with ties to domestic constituencies 
     in the overseas processing of refugees.
       (3) In addition to traditional agencies currently used in 
     the processing of refugees for admission to the United 
     States, where applicable, the Secretary shall establish 
     refugee response teams.
       (A) Establishment of refugee response teams.--In order to 
     make the processing of refugees more efficient and effective, 
     enhance the quality of refugee resettlement programs, and to 
     augment the capacity of the United States government to 
     identify, process, assist, and counsel individuals for 
     eventual adjudication by the Department of Homeland Security 
     as refugees, where applicable, the Secretary shall establish 
     and utilize the services of Refugee Response Teams, (in this 
     section referred to as ``RRTs''). RRTs shall be coordinated 
     by the Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, 
     and Migration, or the Assistant Secretary's designee.
       (B) Composition of the rrts.--RRTs shall be comprised of 
     representatives of nongovernmental organizations and private 
     voluntary organizations that have experience in refugee law, 
     policy and programs.
       (C) Responsibilities of the rrts.--RRTs shall be 
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       (i) monitoring refugee situations, with a view toward 
     identifying those refugees whose best durable solution is 
     third country resettlement;
       (ii) preparing profiles and documentation for resettlement 
     consideration by the United States Government;
       (iii) augmenting or establishing an overseas operation, 
     especially in response to urgent developments requiring quick 
     responses or more staff resources than are available in the 
     existing processing entities;
       (iv) assisting with training and technical assistance to 
     existing international organizations and other processing 
     entities; and
       (v) such other responsibilities as may be determined by the 
     Secretary of State.
       (D) Responsibilities of the secretary.--The Secretary shall 
     establish appropriate training seminars for RRT personnel 
     and make use of RRTs in situations where existing 
     mechanisms are unable to identify and process refugees in 
     a timely manner.
       (d) Performance Standards.--In consultation with private 
     voluntary organizations and NGOs, the Secretary shall 
     establish performance standards to ensure accountability and 
     effectiveness in the tasks carried out in subsection (c).
       (e) Consideration of Various Groups.--To ensure that there 
     is adequate planning across fiscal years and that both the 
     Department of State's planning and processing operations 
     result in adequate numbers of travel-ready refugees to 
     fulfill the admissions goals set forth in the determinations 
     on refugee admissions required by sections 207(a) and 207(b) 
     of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1157(a) and 
     (b)), the Secretary of State shall work to ensure that--
       (1) those refugees in special need, including long-stayers 
     in first countries of asylum, unaccompanied refugee minors, 
     urban refugees, and refugees in women-headed households be 
     given special attention for resettlement processing;
       (2) attempts are made to expand processing of those 
     refugees of all nationalities who have close family ties to 
     citizens and residents in the United States, including 
     spouses, unmarried children, or parents of persons lawfully 
     admitted to the United States, regardless of their country of 
     nationality, country of habitual residence, or first country 
     of asylum, as well as grandparents, grandchildren, married 
     sons or daughters, or siblings of United States citizens or 
     other persons lawfully admitted to the United States;
       (3) attempts are made to expand the number of refugees 
     considered who are of special concern to the United States; 
     and
       (4) expanded access is provided to broader categories of 
     refugees seeking admission to the United States, thus 
     reducing instances of relationship-based misrepresentation by 
     persons who are bona fide refugees but who resort to such 
     misrepresentation merely as a way to be interviewed for 
     refugee status.
       (f) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit a 
     report to Congress that includes information concerning the 
     following:
       (1) Efforts of the Secretary to utilize NGO's in refugee 
     identification, utilize private voluntary organizations in 
     processing refugees, establish and utilize RRTs, and an 
     explanation of the rationale for not using such organizations 
     and agencies in situations where the Secretary has made such 
     a determination, as described in subsection (c).
       (2) Efforts of the Secretary to implement performance 
     standards and measures as described in subsection (d) and the 
     success of NGO's and private voluntary organizations in 
     meeting such standards.
       (3) Efforts of the Secretary to expand consideration of 
     various groups for refugee processing as described in 
     subsection (e).
       (4) Efforts to ensure that there is planning across fiscal 
     years so as to fulfill the refugee admissions goals set forth 
     by the President in his annual presidential determinations on 
     refugee admissions.

      SEC. 230. THE COLIN POWELL CENTER FOR AMERICAN DIPLOMACY.

       Title I of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 
     1956 is amended by adding after section 59 (22 U.S.C. 2730) 
     the following new section:

     ``SEC. 60. COLIN POWELL CENTER FOR AMERICAN DIPLOMACY.

       ``(a) Designation.--The diplomacy center of the Department 
     of State, located in the Harry S Truman building, is hereby 
     designated as the `Colin Powell Center for American 
     Diplomacy' (hereinafter in this section referred to as the 
     `Center').
       ``(b) Activities.--
       ``(1) Support authorized.--The Secretary of State is 
     authorized to provide by contract, grant, or otherwise, for 
     the performance of appropriate museum visitor and educational 
     outreach services, including organizing conference 
     activities, museum shop services, and food services, in the 
     public exhibit and related space utilized by the Center.
       ``(2) Payment of expenses.--The Secretary may pay all 
     reasonable expenses of conference activities conducted by the 
     Center, including refreshments and reimbursement of travel 
     expenses incurred by participants.
       ``(3) Recovery of costs.--Any revenues generated under the 
     authority of paragraph (1) for visitor services may be 
     retained, as a recovery of the costs of operating the Center, 
     and credited to any Department of State appropriation.
       ``(c) Disposition of Center Artifacts and Materials.--
       ``(1) Property of secretary.--All historic documents, 
     artifacts, or other articles permanently acquired by the 
     Department of State and determined by the Secretary to be 
     suitable for display in the Center shall be considered to be 
     the property of the Secretary in the Secretary's official 
     capacity and shall be subject to disposition solely in 
     accordance with this subsection.
       ``(2) Sale or trade.--Whenever the Secretary makes the 
     determination under paragraph (3) with respect to an item, 
     the Secretary may sell at fair market value, trade, or 
     transfer the item, without regard to the requirements of 
     subtitle I of title 40, United States Code. The proceeds of 
     any such sale may be used solely for the advancement of the 
     Center's mission and may not be used for any purpose other 
     than the acquisition and direct care of collections.
       ``(3) Determinations prior to sale or trade.--The 
     determination referred to in paragraph (2), with respect to 
     an item, is a determination that--
       ``(A) the item no longer serves to further the purposes of 
     the Center established in the collections management policy 
     of the Center; or
       ``(B) in order to maintain the standards of the collections 
     of the Center, the sale or exchange of the item would be a 
     better use of the item.
       ``(4) Loans.--The Secretary may also lend items covered by 
     paragraph (1), when not needed for use or display in the 
     Center, to the Smithsonian Institution or a similar 
     institution for repair, study, or exhibition.''.

            Subtitle C--Educational and Cultural Authorities

     SEC. 251. ESTABLISHMENT OF INITIATIVES FOR PREDOMINANTLY 
                   MUSLIM COUNTRIES.

       (a) Findings.--The Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) Surveys indicate that, in countries of predominantly 
     Muslim population, opinions of the United States and American 
     foreign policy among the general public and select audiences 
     are significantly distorted by highly negative and hostile 
     beliefs and images and that many of these beliefs and images 
     are the result of misinformation and propaganda by 
     individuals and organizations hostile to the United States.
       (2) These negative opinions and images are highly 
     prejudicial to the interests of the United States and to its 
     foreign policy.
       (3) As part of a broad and long-term effort to enhance a 
     positive image of the United States in the Muslim world, a 
     key element should be the establishment of programs to 
     promote a greater familiarity with American society and 
     values among the general public and select audiences in 
     countries of predominantly Muslim population.
       (b) Establishment of Initiatives.--The Secretary of State 
     shall establish the following programs with countries with 
     predominantly Muslim populations as part of the educational 
     and cultural exchange programs of the Department of State for 
     the fiscal years 2004 and 2005:
       (1) Journalism program.--A program for foreign journalists, 
     editors, media managers, and postsecondary students of 
     journalism which, in cooperation with private sector sponsors 
     to include universities, shall sponsor workshops and 
     professional training in techniques, standards, and practices 
     in the field of journalism to assist the participants to 
     achieve the highest standards of professionalism.
       (2) English language teaching.--The Secretary shall provide 
     grants to United States citizens to work in middle and 
     secondary schools as English language teaching assistants for 
     not less than an academic year. If feasible, the host 
     government or local educational agency shall share the salary 
     costs of the assistants.
       (3) Sister city partnerships.--The Secretary shall expand 
     and enhance sister-city partnerships between United States 
     and international municipalities in an effort to increase 
     global cooperation at the community level. Such 
     partnerships shall encourage economic development, 
     municipal cooperation, health care initiatives, youth and 
     educational programs, disability advocacy, emergency 
     preparedness, and humanitarian assistance.
       (4) Civics education.--The Secretary shall establish a 
     civics education program which shall develop civics education 
     teaching curricula and materials, provide training for 
     teachers of civics, and provide English language teaching 
     materials that are designed to promote civics education. 
     Civics education programs under this paragraph shall place 
     particular emphasis on the on-site training of educators and 
     the function of the mass media within that society.
       (5) Youth ambassadors.--The Secretary shall establish a 
     program for visits by middle school students (to the extent 
     feasible) and secondary school students to the United States 
     during school holidays in their home country for periods not 
     to exceed 4 weeks and a program for academic year study in 
     the United States for secondary school students. 
     Participating students shall reflect the economic, 
     geographic, and ethnic diversity of their countries. 
     Activities shall include cultural and educational activities 
     designed to familiarize participating students with American 
     society and values. To the extent practicable, the program 
     involving school holiday visits shall be coordinated with 
     middle and secondary schools in the United States to provide 
     for school-based activities and interactions. The Secretary 
     shall encourage the establishment of direct school-to-school 
     linkages under the programs.
       (6) Fulbright exchange program.--The Secretary shall seek 
     to substantially increase the number of awards under the J. 
     William Fulbright Educational Exchange Program to graduate 
     students, scholars, professionals, teachers, and 
     administrators from the United States who are applying for 
     such awards to study, teach, conduct research, or pursue 
     scholarship in predominantly Muslim countries. Part of such 
     increase shall include awards for scholars and teachers who 
     plan to teach subjects relating to American studies.
       (7) Hubert h. humphrey fellowships.--The Secretary shall 
     seek to substantially increase the number of Hubert H. 
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     awarded to candidates from predominantly Muslim countries.
       (8) Library training exchange program.--The Secretary shall 
     develop an exchange program for postgradute students seeking 
     additional training in the library sciences and related 
     fields.
       (c) General Provision.--Programs established under this 
     section shall be carried out under the provisions of the 
     United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 
     1948 and the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 
     1961.

     SEC. 252. DATABASE OF AMERICAN AND FOREIGN PARTICIPANTS IN 
                   EXCHANGE PROGRAMS.

       To the extent practicable, the Secretary of State, in 
     coordination with the heads of other agencies that conduct 
     international exchange and training programs, shall establish 
     and maintain a database listing all American and foreign 
     alumni of such programs in order to encourage networking, 
     interaction, and communication with alumni.

     SEC. 253. REPORT ON INCLUSION OF FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY 
                   ADVOCATES IN EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE 
                   PROGRAMS.

       Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit to the Congress 
     a report concerning the implementation of section 102 of the 
     Human Rights, Refugee, and Other Foreign Relations Provisions 
     Act of 1996. The report shall include information concerning 
     the number of grants to conduct exchange programs to 
     countries described in such section that have been submitted 
     for competitive bidding, what measures have been taken to 
     ensure that willingness to include supporters of freedom and 
     democracy in such programs is given appropriate weight in the 
     selection of grantees, and an evaluation of whether United 
     States exchange programs in the countries described in such 
     section are fully open to supporters of freedom and 
     democracy, and, if not, what obstacles remain and what 
     measures are being taken to implement such policy.

     SEC. 254. SENSE OF THE CONGRESS CONCERNING EDUCATIONAL AND 
                   CULTURAL EXCHANGE PROGRAM FOR FOREIGN 
                   JOURNALISTS.

       It is the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of State 
     should work toward the establishment of a program for foreign 
     journalists from regions of conflict that will provide 
     professional training in techniques, standards, and practices 
     in the field of journalism.

     SEC. 255. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING KOREAN FULBRIGHT 
                   PROGRAMS.

       It is the sense of the Congress that Fulbright program 
     activities for Korea should--
       (1) include participation by students from throughout South 
     Korea, including proportional representation from areas 
     outside of Seoul;
       (2) attempt to include Korean students from a broad range 
     of educational institutions, including schools other than 
     elite universities;
       (3) broaden the Korean student emphasis beyond degree-
     seeking graduate students, to include opportunities for one-
     year nondegree study at United States campuses by pre-
     doctoral Korean students; and
       (4) include a significant number of Korean students 
     planning to move into areas other than advanced research and 
     university teaching, such as those heading towards careers in 
     government service, media, law, and business.

     SEC. 256. AUTHORIZING EAST TIMORESE SCHOLARSHIPS FOR GRADUATE 
                   STUDY.

       Section 237 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, 
     Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (Public Law 103-236) is amended by 
     inserting ``graduate or'' after ``at the''.

     SEC. 257. PUBLIC SAFETY AWARENESS IN STUDY ABROAD PROGRAMS.

       With respect to the Department of State's support for study 
     abroad programs, Congress--
       (1) encourages the Bureau of Educational and Cultural 
     Affairs to support public safety awareness activities as part 
     of such programs; and
       (2) encourages the Bureau to continue supporting such 
     activities and urges special attention to public safety 
     issues, including road safety.

                    Subtitle D--Consular Authorities

     SEC. 271. MACHINE READABLE VISAS.

       Section 140(a) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, 
     Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (8 U.S.C. 1351 note) is amended by 
     adding at the end the following:
       ``(4) For each of the fiscal years 2004 and 2005, any 
     amount that exceeds $700,000,000 may be made available only 
     if a notification is submitted to Congress in accordance with 
     the procedures applicable to reprogramming notifications 
     under section 34 of the State Department Basic Authorities 
     Act of 1956.''.

     SEC. 272. PROCESSING OF VISA APPLICATIONS.

       (a) In General.--It shall be the policy of the Department 
     of State to process each visa application from an alien 
     classified as an immediate relative or as a K-1 nonimmigrant 
     within 30 days of the receipt of all necessary documents from 
     the applicant and the Department of Homeland Security. In the 
     case of an immigrant visa application where the petitioner is 
     a relative other than an immediate relative, it should be the 
     policy of the Department to process such an application 
     within 60 days of the receipt of all necessary documents from 
     the applicant and the Department of Homeland Security.
       (b) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Immediate relative.--The term ``immediate relative'' 
     has the meaning given the term in section 201(b)(2)(A)(i) of 
     the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
     1151(b)(2)(A)(i)).
       (2) K-1 nonimmigrant.--The term ``K-1 nonimmigrant'' means 
     a nonimmigrant alien described in section 101(a)(15)(K)(i) of 
     the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
     1101(a)(15)(K)(i)).

     SEC. 273. STAFFING AT DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS.

       At least once every five years and pursuant to a process 
     determined by the President for staffing at diplomatic 
     missions and overseas constituent posts, the Secretary of 
     State shall require each chief of mission to review every 
     staff element under chief of mission authority, including 
     staff from other executive agencies, and recommend approval 
     or disapproval of each staff element. The Secretary of State 
     shall submit an annual report concerning such reviews 
     together with the Secretary's recommendations to the heads of 
     all affected agencies and the Inspector General of the 
     Department of State.

    TITLE III--ORGANIZATION AND PERSONNEL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE

     SEC. 301. FELLOWSHIP OF HOPE PROGRAM.

       The Secretary of State is authorized to establish in the 
     Department of State an exchange program to be designated the 
     ``Fellowship of Hope Program''. The program shall provide for 
     the exchange and assignment of government employees of 
     designated countries to fellowship positions at the 
     Department of State and reciprocal assignment of civil 
     service and foreign service employees of the Department as 
     fellows within the governments of foreign countries.

     SEC. 302. CLAIMS FOR LOST PAY.

       Section 2 of the State Department Basic Authorities Act (22 
     U.S.C. 2669) is amended--
       (1) at the end of subsection (o) by striking the period and 
     inserting ``; and''; and
       (2) by inserting after subsection (o) the following new 
     subsection:
       ``(p) make administrative corrections or adjustments to an 
     employee's pay, allowances, or differentials, resulting from 
     mistakes or retroactive personnel actions, and to provide 
     back pay and other categories of payments under the Back Pay 
     Act as part of the settlement of administrative claims or 
     grievances filed against the Department.''.

     SEC. 303. OMBUDSMAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

       (a) Establishment.--There is established in the Office of 
     the Secretary of State the position of Ombudsman. The 
     position of Ombudsman shall be a career position within the 
     Senior Executive Service. The Ombudsman shall report directly 
     to the Secretary of State.
       (b) Duties.--At the discretion of the Secretary of State, 
     the Ombudsman shall participate in meetings regarding the 
     management of the Department in order to assure that all 
     employees may contribute to the achievement of the 
     Department's responsibilities and to promote the career 
     interests of all employees.
       (c) Conforming Amendment.--Section 172 of the Foreign 
     Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 (22 
     U.S.C. 2664a) is amended--
       (1) by striking subsection (c); and
       (2) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (c).

     SEC. 304. REPEAL OF RECERTIFICATION REQUIREMENT FOR SENIOR 
                   FOREIGN SERVICE.

       Section 305 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 
     3945) is amended by striking subsection (d).

     SEC. 305. REPORT CONCERNING STATUS OF EMPLOYEES OF STATE 
                   DEPARTMENT.

       Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, the Secretary of State shall prepare and submit to 
     the appropriate congressional committees a report that 
     analyzes and evaluates the merits of the conversion of 
     employees of the Department of State to excepted service 
     under chapter 21 of title 5, United States Code.

     SEC. 306. HOME LEAVE.

       (a) Rest and Recuperation Travel.--Section 901(6) of the 
     Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 4081(6)) is amended by 
     striking ``unbroken by home leave'' both places it appears.
       (b) Required Leave in the United States.--Section 903(a) of 
     the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 4083(a)) is 
     amended by striking ``18 months'' and inserting ``12 
     months''.

     SEC. 307. INCREASED LIMITS APPLICABLE TO POST DIFFERENTIALS 
                   AND DANGER PAY ALLOWANCES.

       (a) Post Differentials.--Section 5925(a) of title 5, United 
     States Code, is amended by striking ``25 percent'' in the 
     third sentence and inserting ``35 percent''.
       (b) Danger Pay Allowances.--Section 5928 of title 5, United 
     States Code, is amended by striking ``25 percent'' both 
     places it appears and inserting ``35 percent''.
       (c) Criteria.--The Secretary shall inform the appropriate 
     congressional committees of the criteria to be used in 
     determinations of appropriate adjustments in post 
     differentials under section 5925 of title 5, United States 
     Code, and danger pay allowances under section 5928 of title 
     5, United States Code.
       (d) Study and Report.--Two years after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall conduct a 
     study assessing the effect of the increases in post 
     differentials and danger pay allowances made by the 
     amendments in subsections (a) and (b) in filling ``hard-to-
     fill'' positions. The Secretary shall submit a report of such 
     study to the appropriate congressional committees.

     SEC. 308. REGULATIONS REGARDING RETIREMENT CREDIT FOR 
                   GOVERNMENT SERVICE PERFORMED ABROAD.

       Section 321(f) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, 
     Fiscal Year 2003 (5 U.S.C. 8411 note; Public Law 107-228) is 
     amended by striking ``regulations'' and inserting 
     ``regulations, not later than 60 days after the date of the 
     enactment of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal 
     Years 2004 and 2005,''.

     SEC. 309. MINORITY RECRUITMENT.

       (a) Reporting Requirement.--Section 324 of the Foreign 
     Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal

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     Year 2003 (Public Law 107-228) is amended by striking ``and 
     April 1, 2004'' and inserting ``April 1, 2004, and April 1, 
     2005''.
       (b) Use of Funds.--The provisions of section 325 of such 
     Act shall apply to funds authorized by section 111(a)(1)(E) 
     of this Act.
       (c) Conforming Amendment.--Section 325(c) of such Act is 
     amended in the second sentence by striking ``two'' and 
     inserting ``three''.

     SEC. 310. MERITORIOUS STEP INCREASES.

       Section 406(b) of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 
     U.S.C. 3966(b)) is amended by striking ``receiving an 
     increase in salary under subsection (a),''.

                 TITLE IV--INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

              Subtitle A--Basic Authorities and Activities

     SEC. 401. RAISING THE CAP ON PEACEKEEPING CONTRIBUTIONS.

       Section 404(b)(2)(B) of the Foreign Relations Authorization 
     Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 is amended by inserting after 
     clause (iv) the following:
       ``(v) For assessments made during calendar year 2005 and 
     calendar year 2006, 27.10 percent.''.

     SEC. 402. REGARDING THE REENTRY OF THE UNITED STATES IN 
                   UNESCO.

       (a) Sense of Congress.--As the United States resumes 
     membership in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and 
     Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the President should--
       (1) appoint a United States Representative to the 
     Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) 
     who shall also serve as the United States Representative to 
     UNESCO;
       (2) take steps to ensure that more Americans are employed 
     by UNESCO, particularly for senior level positions;
       (3) request that the Secretary General of UNESCO create a 
     Deputy Director General position for Management or a 
     comparable position with high level managerial and 
     administrative responsibilities to be filled by an American;
       (4) insist that any increases in UNESCO's budget beyond the 
     level of zero nominal growth for the 2004-2005 biennium focus 
     primarily on the adoption of management and administrative 
     reforms; and
       (5) request that the Secretary General of UNESCO spend the 
     United States contribution to UNESCO for the last quarter of 
     calendar year 2003 on key education and science priorities of 
     the organization that will directly benefit United States 
     national interests.
       (b) Annual Assessment for United States Participation in 
     UNESCO.--Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated by 
     section 113(a), such sums as may be necessary for each of the 
     fiscal years 2004 and 2005 are authorized to be available for 
     the annual assessment for United States contributions to the 
     regular budget of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, 
     and Cultural Organization.

     SEC. 403. UNESCO NATIONAL COMMISSION.

       (a) In General.--Section 3 of the Act of July 30, 1946, 
     ``Providing for membership and participation by the United 
     States in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and 
     Cultural Organization, and authorizing an appropriation 
     therefor.'' (22 U.S.C. 287o) is amended to read as follows:
       ``Sec. 3. (a) In fulfillment of article VII of the 
     constitution of the Organization, the Secretary of State 
     shall establish a National Commission on Educational, 
     Scientific, and Cultural Cooperation.
       ``(b) The National Commission shall be composed of not more 
     than 35 members appointed by the Secretary of State in 
     consultation with the National Academy of Sciences, the 
     National Science Foundation, the Secretary of Education, the 
     Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Secretary of 
     the Interior. Members of the National Commission shall be 
     representatives of nongovernmental organizations, academic 
     institutions, and associations interested in education, 
     scientific, and cultural matters. Periodically, the Secretary 
     shall review and revise the entities represented on the 
     National Commission in order to achieve a desirable rotation 
     in representation. Except as otherwise provided, each member 
     of the National Commission shall be appointed to a term of 3 
     years. As designated by the Secretary of State at the time of 
     appointment, of the members first appointed one-third shall 
     be appointed for a term of 1 year, one-third shall be 
     appointed for a term of 2 years, and one-third shall be 
     appointed for a term of 3 years. Any member appointed to fill 
     a vacancy occurring before the expiration of the term for 
     which the member's predecessor was appointed shall be 
     appointed only for the remainder of that term. A member may 
     serve after the expiration of that member's term until a 
     successor has taken office. No member may serve more than 2 
     consecutive terms. The Secretary of State shall designate a 
     chair of the National Commission.
       ``(c) Members of the National Commission shall serve 
     without pay. For attendance at the annual meeting, each 
     member shall receive travel expenses in accordance with 
     section 5703 of title 5, United States Code.
       ``(d) The National Commission shall meet at the call of the 
     chair at least annually and such meetings may be through 
     video conferencing or other electronic means. The National 
     Commission shall designate an executive committee from among 
     the members of the commission and may designate such other 
     committees as may be necessary to carry out its duties under 
     this Act.
       ``(e) Upon request of the National Commission, the 
     Secretary of State may detail any of the personnel of the 
     Department of State to the National Commission to assist it 
     in carrying out its duties under this Act.''.
       (b) Conforming Changes.--Section 2 of the Act of July 30, 
     1946, ``Providing for membership and participation by the 
     United States in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, 
     and Cultural Organization, and authorizing an appropriation 
     therefor.'' (22 U.S.C. 287o) is amended by striking ``One of 
     the representatives'' and all that follows through the end of 
     such section.

     SEC. 404. ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES (OAS) EMERGENCY 
                   FUND.

       Section 109(b)(3) of Public Law 104-114 (22 U.S.C. 
     6039(b)(3)) is amended by striking ``should provide not less 
     than $5,000,000'' and inserting ``shall provide for each of 
     the fiscal years 2004 and 2005 not less than $500,000''.

     SEC. 405. UNITED STATES EFFORTS REGARDING THE STATUS OF 
                   ISRAEL IN THE WESTERN EUROPEAN AND OTHERS GROUP 
                   AT THE UNITED NATIONS.

       (a) United States Efforts.--The Secretary of State and 
     other appropriate officials of the United States Government 
     should pursue an aggressive diplomatic effort and should take 
     all necessary steps to ensure the extension and upgrade of 
     Israel's membership in the Western European and Others Group 
     at the United Nations.
       (b) Report.--Not later than 60 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act and semiannually thereafter through 
     September 30, 2005, the Secretary of State shall submit to 
     the appropriate congressional committees a report on the 
     steps taken by the United States pursuant to subsection (a) 
     and progress in achieving the objectives of subsection (a).

           Subtitle B--United States International Leadership

     SEC. 431. SHORT TITLE.

       This subtitle may be cited as the ``United States 
     International Leadership Act of 2003''.

     SEC. 432. FINDINGS.

       The Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) International organizations and other multilateral 
     institutions play a key role in United States foreign policy 
     and serve key United States foreign policy objectives, such 
     as obligating all countries to freeze assets of terrorist 
     groups, preventing the proliferation of chemical, biological, 
     and nuclear weapons, and spearheading the fight to combat the 
     ravages of HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases.
       (2) Decisions at many international organizations, 
     including membership and key positions, remain subject to 
     determinations made by regional groups where democratic 
     states are often in the minority and where there is intensive 
     cooperation among repressive regimes. As a result, the United 
     States has often been blocked in its attempts to take action 
     in these institutions to advance its goals and objectives, 
     including at the United Nations Human Rights Commission 
     (where a representative of Libya was elected as chairman and 
     the United States temporarily lost a seat).
       (3) In order to address these shortcomings, the United 
     States must actively work to improve the workings of 
     international organizations and multilateral institutions, 
     particularly by creating a caucus of democratic countries 
     that will advance United States interests. In the Second 
     Ministerial Conference of the Community of Democracies in 
     Seoul, Korea, on November 10-20, 2002, numerous countries 
     recommended working together as a democracy caucus in 
     international organizations such as the United Nations and 
     ensuring that international and regional institutions develop 
     and apply democratic standards for member states.
       (4) In addition, the United States has shortchanged its 
     ability to influence these organizations by failing to obtain 
     enough support for positions that are congruent to or 
     consistent with United States objectives and has not done 
     enough to build expertise in the United States Government in 
     the area of multilateral diplomacy.

     SEC. 433. ESTABLISHMENT OF A DEMOCRACY CAUCUS.

       (a) In General.--The President of the United States, acting 
     through the Secretary of State and the relevant United States 
     chiefs of mission, shall seek to establish a democracy caucus 
     at the United Nations, the United Nations Human Rights 
     Commission, the United Nations Conference on Disarmament, and 
     at other broad-based international organizations.
       (b) Purposes of the Caucus.--A democracy caucus at an 
     international organization should--
       (1) forge common positions, including, as appropriate, at 
     the ministerial level, on matters of concern before the 
     organization and work within and across regional lines to 
     promote agreed positions;
       (2) work to revise an increasingly outmoded system of 
     regional voting and decision making; and
       (3) set up a rotational leadership scheme to provide member 
     states an opportunity, for a set period of time, to serve as 
     the designated president of the caucus, responsible for 
     serving as its voice in each organization.

     SEC. 434. ANNUAL DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS ON MULTILATERAL ISSUES.

       The Secretary of State, acting through the principal 
     officers responsible for advising the Secretary on 
     international organizations, shall ensure that a high-level 
     delegation from the United States Government, on an annual 
     basis, is sent to consult with key foreign governments in 
     every region in order to promote the United States agenda at 
     key international fora, such as the United Nations General 
     Assembly, United Nations Human Rights Commission, the United 
     Nations Education, Science, and Cultural Organization, and 
     the International Whaling Commission.

     SEC. 435. LEADERSHIP AND MEMBERSHIP OF INTERNATIONAL 
                   ORGANIZATIONS.

       (a) United States Policy.--The President, acting through 
     the Secretary of State and the relevant United States chiefs 
     of mission, shall use the voice, vote, and influence of 
     the United States to--

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       (1) where appropriate, reform the criteria for leadership 
     and, in appropriate cases for membership, at all United 
     Nations bodies and at other international organizations and 
     multilateral institutions to which the United States is a 
     member so as to exclude nations that violate the principles 
     of the specific organization;
       (2) make it a policy of the United Nations and other 
     international organizations and multilateral institutions, of 
     which the United States is a member, that a member state may 
     not stand in nomination or be in rotation for a leadership 
     position in such bodies if the member state is subject to 
     sanctions imposed by the United Nations Security Council; and
       (3) work to ensure that no member state stand in nomination 
     or be in rotation for a leadership position in such 
     organizations, or for membership of the United Nations 
     Security Council, if the member state is subject to a 
     determination under section 620A of the Foreign Assistance 
     Act of 1961, section 40 of the Arms Export Control Act, or 
     section 6(j) of the Export Administration Act.
       (b) Report to Congress.--Not later than 15 days after a 
     country subject to to a determination under section 620A of 
     the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, section 40 of the Arms 
     Export Control Act, or section 6(j) of the Export 
     Administration Act is selected for a leadership post in an 
     international organization of which the United States is a 
     member or a membership of the United Nations Security 
     Council, the Secretary of State shall submit a report to the 
     appropriate congressional committees on any steps taken 
     pursuant to subsection (a)(3).

     SEC. 436. INCREASED TRAINING IN MULTILATERAL DIPLOMACY.

       (a) Training Programs.--Section 708 of the Foreign Service 
     Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 4028) is amended by adding after 
     subsection (b) the following new subsection:
       ``(c) Training in Multilateral Diplomacy.--
       ``(1) In general.--The Secretary shall establish a series 
     of training courses for officers of the Service, including 
     appropriate chiefs of mission, on the conduct of diplomacy at 
     international organizations and other multilateral 
     institutions and at broad-based multilateral negotiations of 
     international instruments.
       ``(2) Particular programs.--The Secretary shall ensure that 
     the training described in paragraph (1) is provided at 
     various stages of the career of members of the Service. In 
     particular, the Secretary shall ensure that after January 1, 
     2004--
       ``(A) officers of the Service receive training on the 
     conduct of diplomacy at international organizations and other 
     multilateral institutions and at broad-based multilateral 
     negotiations of international instruments as part of their 
     training upon entry of the Service; and
       ``(B) officers of the Service, including chiefs of mission, 
     who are assigned to United States missions representing the 
     United States to international organizations and other 
     multilateral institutions or who are assigned in Washington, 
     D.C. to positions that have as their primary responsibility 
     formulation of policy towards such organizations and 
     institutions or towards participation in broad-based 
     multilateral negotiations of international instruments 
     receive specialized training in the areas described in 
     paragraph (1) prior to beginning of service for such 
     assignment or, if receiving such training at that time is not 
     practical, within the first year of beginning such 
     assignment.''.
       (b) Training for Civil Service Employees.--The Secretary 
     shall ensure that employees of the Department of State that 
     are members of the civil service and that are assigned to 
     positions described in section 708(c) of the Foreign Service 
     Act of 1980 (as amended by this subtitle) have training 
     described in such section.
       (c) Conforming Amendments.--Section 708 of such Act is 
     further amended--
       (1) in subsection (a) by striking ``(a) The'' and inserting 
     ``(a) Training on Human Rights.--The''; and
       (2) in subsection (b) by striking ``(b) The'' and inserting 
     ``(b) Training on Refugee Law and Religious Persecution.--
     The''.

     SEC. 437. PROMOTING ASSIGNMENTS TO INTERNATIONAL 
                   ORGANIZATIONS.

       (a) Promotions.--
       (1) In general.--Section 603(b) of the Foreign Service Act 
     of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 4003) is amended by striking the period at 
     the end and inserting: ``, and shall consider whether the 
     member of the Service has served in a position whose primary 
     responsibility is to formulate policy towards or represent 
     the United States at an international organization, a 
     multilateral institution, or a broad-based multilateral 
     negotiation of an international instrument.''.
       (2) Effective date.--The amendment made by paragraph (1) 
     shall take effect January 1, 2010.
       (b) Establishment of a Multilateral Diplomacy Cone in the 
     Foreign Service.--
       (1) Findings.--
       (A) The Department of State maintains a number of United 
     States missions both within the United States and abroad that 
     are dedicated to representing the United States to 
     international organizations and multilateral institutions, 
     including missions in New York, Brussels, Geneva, Rome, 
     Montreal, Nairobi, Vienna, and Paris, which will soon be 
     responsible for United States representation to UNESCO and 
     OECD.
       (B) In offices at the Harry S. Truman Building, the 
     Department maintains a significant number of positions in 
     bureaus that are either dedicated, or whose primary 
     responsibility is, to represent the United States to such 
     organizations and institutions or at multilateral 
     negotiations.
       (C) Given the large number of positions in the United 
     States and abroad that are dedicated to multilateral 
     diplomacy, the Department of State may be well served in 
     developing persons with specialized skills necessary to 
     become experts in this unique form of diplomacy.
       (2) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the 
     appropriate congressional committees a report--
       (A) evaluating whether a new cone should be established for 
     the Foreign Service that concentrates on members of the 
     Service that serve at international organizations and 
     multilateral institutions or are primarily responsible for 
     participation in broad-based multilateral negotiations of 
     international instruments; and
       (B) provides alternative mechanisms for achieving the 
     objective of developing a core group of United States 
     diplomats and other government employees who have expertise 
     and broad experience in conducting multilateral diplomacy.

     SEC. 438. IMPLEMENTATION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF OFFICE ON 
                   MULTILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS.

       (a) Establishment of Office.--The Secretary of State is 
     authorized to establish, within the Bureau of International 
     Organizational Affairs, an Office on Multilateral 
     Negotiations to be headed by a Special Representative for 
     Multilateral Negotiations (in this section referred to as the 
     ``special representative'').
       (b) Appointment.--The special representative shall be 
     appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the 
     Senate and shall have the rank of Ambassador-at-Large. At the 
     discretion of the President another official at the 
     Department may serve as the special representative. The 
     President may direct that the special representative report 
     to the Assistant Secretary for International Organizations.
       (c) Staffing.--The special representative shall have a 
     staff of foreign service and civil service officers skilled 
     in multilateral diplomacy.
       (d) Duties.--The special representative shall have the 
     following responsibilities:
       (1) In general.--The primary responsibility of the special 
     representative shall be to assist in the organization of, and 
     preparation for, United States participation in multilateral 
     negotiations, including the advocacy efforts undertaken by 
     the Department of State and other United States agencies.
       (2) Advisory role.--The special representative shall advise 
     the President and the Secretary of State, as appropriate, 
     regarding advocacy at international organizations and 
     multilateral institutions and negotiations and, in 
     coordination with the Assistant Secretary of State for 
     International Organizational Affairs, shall make 
     recommendations regarding--
       (A) effective strategies (and tactics) to achieve United 
     States policy objectives at multilateral negotiations;
       (B) the need for and timing of high level intervention by 
     the President, the Secretary of State, the Deputy Secretary 
     of State, and other United States officials to secure support 
     from key foreign government officials for the United States 
     position at such organizations, institutions, and 
     negotiations;
       (C) the composition of United States delegations to 
     multilateral negotiations; and
       (D) liaison with Congress, international organizations, 
     nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector on 
     matters affecting multilateral negotiations.
       (3) Democracy caucus.--The special representative, in 
     coordination with the Assistant Secretary for International 
     Organizational Affairs, shall ensure the establishment of a 
     democracy caucus.
       (4) Annual diplomatic missions of multilateral issues.--The 
     special representative, in coordination with the Assistant 
     Secretary for International Organizational Affairs, shall 
     organize annual consultations between the principal officers 
     responsible for advising the Secretary of State on 
     international organizations and foreign governments to 
     promote the United States agenda at the United Nations 
     General Assembly and other key international fora (such as 
     the United Nations Human Rights Commission).
       (5) Leadership and membership of international 
     organizations.--The special representative, in coordination 
     with the Assistant Secretary of International Organizational 
     Affairs, shall direct the efforts of the United States 
     Government to reform the criteria for leadership and 
     membership of international organizations as described in 
     section 435.
       (6) Participation in multilateral negotiations.--The 
     special representative, or members of the special 
     representative's staff, may, as required by the President or 
     the Secretary of State, serve on a United States delegation 
     to any multilateral negotiation.
       (e) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit a 
     plan to establish a democracy caucus to the appropriate 
     congressional committees. The report required by section 
     437(c) may be submitted together with the report under this 
     subsection.

     SEC. 439. SYNCHRONIZATION OF UNITED STATES CONTRIBUTIONS TO 
                   INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS.

       Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, the President shall submit a plan to the 
     appropriate congressional committees on the implementation of 
     section 404 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 
     2003 (Public Law 107-228), (relating to a resumption by the 
     United State of the payment of its full contribution to 
     certain international organizations at the beginning of each 
     calendar year).

      TITLE V--UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING ACTIVITIES

              Subtitle A--Basic Authorities and Activities

     SEC. 501. MIDEAST RADIO AND TELEVISION NETWORK, INC.

       (a) The United States International Broadcasting Act of 
     1994 (22 U.S.C. 6201 et seq.) is

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     amended by adding after section 309 the following new 
     section:

     ``SEC. 310. MIDEAST RADIO AND TELEVISION NETWORK, INC.

       ``(a) Authority.--Grants authorized under section 305 shall 
     be available to make annual grants to Mideast Radio and 
     Television Network, Inc. (hereinafter in this title also 
     referred to as `Mideast Network') for the purpose of carrying 
     out radio and television broadcasting to the Middle East 
     region.
       ``(b) Function.--Mideast Network shall provide radio and 
     television programming to the Middle East region consistent 
     with the broadcasting standards and broadcasting principles 
     set forth in section 303 of this Act.
       ``(c) Grant Agreement.--Any grant agreement or grants under 
     this section shall be subject to the following limitations 
     and restrictions:
       ``(1) The Board may not make any grant to the nonprofit 
     corporation, Mideast Network unless its certificate of 
     incorporation provides that--
       ``(A) the Board of Directors of Mideast Radio and 
     Television Network, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as `the 
     Board') shall consist of the members of the Broadcasting 
     Board of Governors established under section 304 and of no 
     other members; and
       ``(B) the Board shall make all major policy determinations 
     governing the operation of Mideast Network and shall appoint 
     and fix the compensation of such managerial officers and 
     employees of Mideast Network as it considers necessary to 
     carry out the purposes of the grant provided under this 
     title, except that no officer or employee may be paid a 
     salary or other compensation in excess of the rate of pay 
     payable for Level IV of the Executive Schedule under section 
     5315 of title 5, United States Code.
       ``(2) Any grant agreement under this section shall require 
     that any contract entered into by Mideast Network shall 
     specify that obligations are assumed by Mideast Network and 
     not the United States Government.
       ``(3) Any grant agreement shall require that any lease 
     agreement entered into by Mideast Network shall be, to the 
     maximum extent possible, assignable to the United States 
     Government.
       ``(4) Grants awarded under this section shall be made 
     pursuant to a grant agreement which requires that grant funds 
     be used only for activities consistent with this section, and 
     that failure to comply with such requirements shall permit 
     the grant to be terminated without fiscal obligation to the 
     United States.
       ``(5) Duplication of language services and technical 
     operations between the Mideast Radio and Television Network, 
     Inc., (including Radio Sawa), RFE/RL, and the International 
     Broadcasting Bureau will be reduced to the extent 
     appropriate, as determined by the Board.
       ``(d) Not a Federal Agency or Instrumentality.--Nothing in 
     this title may be construed to establish Mideast Network as a 
     Federal agency or instrumentality, nor shall the officers or 
     employees of Mideast Network be considered to be officers or 
     employees of the United States Government.
       ``(e) Audit Authority.--
       ``(1) Such financial transactions of Mideast Network, as 
     relate to functions carried out under this section may be 
     audited by the General Accounting Office in accordance with 
     such principles and procedures and under such rules and 
     regulations as may be prescribed by the Comptroller General 
     of the United States. Any such audit shall be conducted at 
     the place or places where accounts of Mideast Network are 
     normally kept.
       ``(2) Representatives of the General Accounting Office 
     shall have access to all books, accounts, records, reports, 
     files, papers, and property belonging to or in use by Mideast 
     Network pertaining to such financial transactions as 
     necessary to facilitate an audit. Such representatives shall 
     be afforded full facilities for verifying transactions with 
     any assets held by depositories, fiscal agents, and 
     custodians. All such books, accounts, records, reports, 
     files, papers, and property of Mideast Network shall remain 
     in the custody of Mideast Network.
       ``(3) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the 
     Inspector General of the Department of State is authorized to 
     exercise the authorities of the Inspector General Act with 
     respect to the Mideast Network.''.
       (b) Conforming Amendments.--
       (1) Section 305 of the United States International 
     Broadcasting Act of 1994 (22 U.S.C. 6204) is amended--
       (A) in subsection (a)(5) by striking ``308 and 309'' and 
     inserting ``308, 309, and 310'';
       (B) in subsection (a)(6) by striking ``308 and 309'' and 
     inserting ``308, 309, and 310''; and
       (C) in subsection (c) by striking ``308 and 309'' and 
     inserting ``308, 309, and 310''.
       (2) Section 307 of the United States International 
     Broadcasting Act of 1994 (22 U.S.C. 6206) is amended--
       (A) in subsection (a) by striking ``308 and 309'' and 
     inserting ``308, 309, and 310''; and
       (B) in subsection (c) by adding ``Mideast Radio and 
     Television Network, Inc.,'' after ``Asia''.
       (3) Section 304(g) of the United States International 
     Broadcasting Act of 1994 (22 U.S.C. 6203(g)) is amended by 
     striking ``and Radio Free Asia'' and inserting ``, Radio Free 
     Asia, and Mideast Radio and Television Network, Inc.''.
       (4) Section 8332(b)(11) of title 5, United States Code, is 
     amended by adding ``Mideast Radio and Television Network, 
     Inc.;'' after ``the Asia Foundation;''.

     SEC. 502. IMPROVING SIGNAL DELIVERY TO CUBA.

       Section 3 of the Radio Broadcasting to Cuba Act (22 U.S.C. 
     1465a) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (c) by striking the second sentence and 
     inserting ``The Board is authorized to simultaneously utilize 
     other broadcasting transmission facilities, and other 
     frequencies, including the Amplitude Modulation (AM) Band 
     (535 kHz to 1705 kHz), the Frequency Modulation (FM) Band, 
     and the Shortwave (SW) Band.'';
       (2) in subsection (c) in the third sentence by striking 
     ``Provided, That'' and all that follows before the period at 
     the end;
       (3) in subsection (d) by striking the last sentence;
       (4) by amending subsection (e) to read as follows:
       ``(e) Any program of United States Government radio 
     broadcasts to Cuba authorized by this section shall be 
     designated `Radio Marti program'.''; and
       (5) in subsection (f) by striking ``Voice of America''.

     SEC. 503. REPORT CONCERNING EFFORTS TO COUNTER JAMMING OF 
                   BROADCASTS OF RADIO MARTI AND TV MARTI.

       Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit to the 
     appropriate congressional committees a report providing the 
     following information:
       (1) Specific steps taken to increase the capabilities of 
     Radio Marti and TV Marti to ensure that broadcasts overcome 
     jamming by the Government of Cuba.
       (2) An evaluation and analysis of not less than 10 
     alternate methods to counter jamming of radio and television 
     broadcasts including the following:
       (A) Methods used to broadcast into Iraq involving a C-130.
       (B) Methods previously used to transmit into the former 
     Soviet Union and other Soviet bloc countries.
       (C) Successful methods employed by non-United States 
     Government entities, such as those used by the Falun Gong to 
     overcome Chinese Government jamming and those recently used 
     by a Cuban exile group to transmit television broadcasts into 
     Cuba.

     SEC. 504. PILOT PROGRAM FOR THE PROMOTION OF TRAVEL AND 
                   TOURISM IN THE UNITED STATES THROUGH UNITED 
                   STATES INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING.

       (a) Pilot Program.--The Broadcasting Board of Governors, in 
     consultation with the Department of Commerce and other 
     appropriate Federal, State, and local agencies, shall conduct 
     a pilot program for the promotion of travel and tourism in 
     the United States through United States international 
     broadcasting, particularly to regional economies that have 
     been affected by the decrease in tourism following the events 
     of September 11, 2001.
       (b) Programming.--The pilot program shall devote regular 
     programming to broadcasting information on localities of the 
     United States with the purpose of promoting travel and 
     tourism to regional economies heavily reliant on such 
     tourism.
       (c) Report to Congress.--Not later than 180 days after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act, the Broadcasting Board of 
     Governors shall submit to the appropriate congressional 
     committees a report detailing the actions taken by the Board 
     in carrying out this section.

     SEC. 505. RADIO FREE ASIA BROADCASTS INTO NORTH KOREA.

       (a) Findings.--The Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) North Korea's development of nuclear weapons and 
     missile delivery systems poses one of the gravest security 
     threats to the United States in the world.
       (2) The Kim Jong Il regime in North Korea has one of the 
     worst human rights records in the world. On April 16, 2003, 
     the United Nations Commission on Human Rights passed a 
     resolution, ``expressing its deep concern about reports of 
     systemic, widespread and grave violations of human rights'' 
     in North Korea.
       (3) In order to ensure its survival, the Kim Jong Il regime 
     makes extensive efforts to control the flow of information in 
     North Korea.
       (4) In 2002, a survey found that five of twelve ``elite'' 
     defectors from North Korea had listened to Radio Free Asia.
       (5) Radio Free Asia broadcasts only 4 hours each day into 
     North Korea.
       (6) Many North Korean citizens lack radios capable of 
     receiving Radio Free Asia broadcasts.
       (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of the Congress 
     that the Broadcasting Board of Governors should ensure that 
     Radio Free Asia increases its broadcasting with respect to 
     North Korea to 24 hours each day.
       (c) Report to Congress.--Not later than 90 days after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, 
     after consulting with other agencies of the United States 
     Government, shall submit a report, in classified form, on 
     specific measures currently being undertaken and measures 
     necessary, including the provision of adequate radios, to 
     maximize North Korean citizen access to Radio Free Asia and 
     other foreign broadcasts to the Committee on International 
     Relations and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence 
     of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign 
     Relations and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the 
     Senate.

     SEC. 506. PROHIBITION ON ELIMINATION OF INTERNATIONAL 
                   BROADCASTING IN EASTERN EUROPE.

       During the 2 year period beginning on the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Broadcasting Board of Governors 
     may not eliminate foreign language broadcasting in any of the 
     following languages: Bulgarian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, 
     Latvian, Lithuanian, Georgian, Polish, Slovene, Slovak, 
     Romanian, Croatian, Armenian, and Ukrainian.

                  Subtitle B--Global Internet Freedom

     SEC. 521. SHORT TITLE.

        This subtitle may be cited as the ``Global Internet 
     Freedom Act of 2003''.

     SEC. 522. FINDINGS.

       The Congress makes the following findings:

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       (1) Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of 
     association are fundamental characteristics of a free 
     society. The first amendment to the Constitution of the 
     United States guarantees that ``Congress shall make no law . 
     . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the 
     right of the people peaceably to assemble.'' These 
     constitutional provisions guarantee the rights of 
     Americans to communicate and associate with one another 
     without restriction, including unfettered communication 
     and association via the Internet. Article 19 of the United 
     Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights explicitly 
     guarantees the freedom to ``receive and impart information 
     and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers''.
       (2) All people have the right to communicate freely with 
     others, and to have unrestricted access to news and 
     information, on the Internet.
       (3) With nearly 10 percent of the world's population now 
     online, and more gaining access each day, the Internet stands 
     to become the most powerful engine for democratization and 
     the free exchange of ideas ever invented.
       (4) The governments of Burma, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, the 
     People's Republic of China, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Vietnam, 
     among others, are taking active measures to keep their 
     citizens from freely accessing the Internet and obtaining 
     international political, religious, and economic news and 
     information.
       (5) The Voice of America and Radio Free Asia, as well as 
     hundreds of news sources with an Internet presence, are 
     routinely being jammed by repressive governments.
       (6) Since the 1940s, the United States has deployed anti-
     jamming technologies to make Voice of America and other 
     United States Government sponsored broadcasting available to 
     people in nations with governments that seek to block news 
     and information.
       (7) The United States Government has thus far commenced 
     only modest steps to fund and deploy technologies to defeat 
     Internet censorship.
       (8) The success of United States policy in support of 
     freedom of speech, press, and association requires continued 
     efforts to defeat totalitarian and authoritarian controls on 
     news and information over the Internet.

     SEC. 523. PURPOSES.

        The purposes of this subtitle are--
       (1) to adopt an effective and robust global Internet 
     freedom policy;
       (2) to establish an office within the Broadcasting Board of 
     Governors with the sole mission of countering Internet 
     jamming and blocking by utilizing available anti-jamming 
     technology;
       (3) to expedite the development and deployment of 
     technology to protect Internet freedom around the world; and
       (4) to bring to bear the pressure of the free world on 
     repressive governments guilty of Internet censorship and the 
     intimidation and persecution of their citizens who use the 
     Internet.

     SEC. 524. DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT OF TECHNOLOGIES TO 
                   DEFEAT INTERNET JAMMING AND CENSORSHIP.

       (a) Establishment of Office of Global Internet Freedom.--
     The Broadcasting Board of Governors shall establish an Office 
     of Global Internet Freedom (hereinafter in this subtitle 
     referred to as the ``Office''). The Office shall develop and 
     implement a comprehensive global strategy to combat state-
     sponsored and state-directed Internet jamming and persecution 
     of those who use the Internet.
       (b) Cooperation of Other Federal Departments and 
     Agencies.--Each department and agency of the United States 
     Government shall cooperate fully with, and assist in the 
     implementation of, the strategy developed by the Office and 
     shall make such resources and information available to the 
     Office as is necessary to the achievement of the purposes of 
     this subtitle.
       (c) Cooperation with Department of State.--The Office shall 
     assist the Secretary of State in preparing portions of the 
     country reports on human rights practices that address 
     Internet accessibility.
       (d) Report to Congress.--Nine months after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Broadcasting Board of Governors 
     shall submit to the Congress a report on the status of 
     foreign government interference with Internet use and of 
     efforts by the United States to counter such interference. 
     The report shall list the countries that pursue policies of 
     Internet censorship, blocking, and other abuses; provide 
     information concerning the government agencies or quasi-
     governmental organizations that implement Internet 
     censorship; and describe with the greatest particularity 
     practicable the technological means by which such blocking 
     and other abuses are accomplished. In the discretion of the 
     Broadcasting Board of Governors, such report may be submitted 
     in both a classified and nonclassified version. One year 
     after the date of submission of such report, the Office shall 
     submit a second report.
       (e) Limitation on Authority.--Nothing in this subtitle 
     shall be interpreted to authorize any action by the United 
     States to interfere with foreign national censorship in 
     furtherance of legitimate law enforcement aims consistent 
     with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

 Subtitle C--Reorganization of United States International Broadcasting

     SEC. 531. ESTABLISHMENT OF UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL 
                   BROADCASTING AGENCY.

       (a) In General.--Section 304 of the United States 
     International Broadcasting Act of 1994 (22 U.S.C. 6203) is 
     amended to read as follows:

     ``SEC. 304. ESTABLISHMENT OF UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL 
                   BROADCASTING AGENCY.

       ``(a) Establishment.--There is established as an 
     independent agency in the executive branch the United States 
     International Broadcasting Agency (hereinafter in this Act 
     referred to as the `Agency').
       ``(b) Board of Governors of the Agency.--
       ``(1) Head of agency.--The Agency shall be headed by the 
     Board of Governors of the United States International 
     Broadcasting Agency (hereinafter in this Act referred to as 
     the `Board of Governors').
       ``(2) Authorities and functions.--The Board of Goverors 
     shall--
       ``(A) carry out the authorities and functions of the Agency 
     under section 305; and
       ``(B) be responsible for the exercise of all authorities 
     and powers and the discharge of all duties and functions of 
     the Agency.
       ``(3) Composition of the board of governors.--
       ``(A) The Board of Governors shall consist of 9 members, as 
     follows:
       ``(i) Eight voting members who shall be appointed by the 
     President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
       ``(ii) The Secretary of State who shall also be a voting 
     member.
       ``(B) The President shall appoint one member (other than 
     the Secretary of State) as Chair of the Board of Governors, 
     subject to the advice and consent of the Senate.
       ``(C) Exclusive of the Secretary of State, not more than 4 
     of the members of the Board of Governors appointed by the 
     President shall be of the same political party.
       ``(4) Term of office.--The term of office of each member of 
     the Board of Governors shall be three years, except that the 
     Secretary of State shall remain a member of the Board of 
     Governors during the Secretary's term of service. The 
     President shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent 
     of the Senate, board members to fill vacancies occurring 
     prior to the expiration of a term, in which case the members 
     so appointed shall serve for the remainder of such term. Any 
     member whose term has expired may serve until a successor has 
     been appointed and qualified. When there is no Secretary of 
     State, the Acting Secretary of State shall serve as a member 
     of the board until a Secretary is appointed.
       ``(5) Selection of board of governors.--Members of the 
     Board of Governors appointed by the President shall be 
     citizens of the United States who are not regular full-time 
     employees of the United States Government. Such members shall 
     be selected by the President from among Americans 
     distinguished in the fields of mass communications, print, 
     broadcast media, or foreign affairs.
       ``(6) Compensation.--Members of the Board of Governors, 
     while attending meetings of the board or while engaged in 
     duties relating to such meetings or in other activities of 
     the board pursuant to this section (including travel time) 
     shall be entitled to receive compensation equal to the daily 
     equivalent of the compensation prescribed for level IV of the 
     Executive Schedule under section 5315 of title 5, United 
     States Code. While away from their homes or regular places of 
     business, members of the board may be allowed travel 
     expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as 
     authorized by law for persons in the Government service 
     employed intermittently. The Secretary of State shall not be 
     entitled to any compensation under this title, but may be 
     allowed travel expenses as provided under this subsection.
       ``(7) Decisions.--Decisions of the Board of Governors shall 
     be made by majority vote, a quorum being present. A quorum 
     shall consist of 5 members.
       ``(8) Immunity from civil liability.--Notwithstanding any 
     other provision of law, any and all limitations on liability 
     that apply to the members of the Board of Governors also 
     shall apply to such members when acting in their capacities 
     as members of the boards of directors of RFE/RL, Incorporated 
     and Radio Free Asia.
       ``(c) Director.--
       ``(1) Appointment.--The Board of Governors shall appoint a 
     Director of the Agency. The Director shall receive basic pay 
     at the rate payable for level III of the Executive Schedule 
     under section 5314 of title 5, United States Code. The 
     Director may be removed through a majority vote of the Board.
       ``(2) Functions and duties.--The Director shall have the 
     following functions and duties:
       ``(A) To exercise the authorities delegated by the Board of 
     Governors pursuant to section 305(b).
       ``(B) To carry out all broadcasting activities conducted 
     pursuant to this title, the Radio Broadcasting to Cuba Act, 
     and the Television Broadcasting to Cuba Act.
       ``(C) To examine and make recommendations to the Board of 
     Governors on long-term strategies for the future of 
     international broadcasting, including the use of new 
     technologies.
       ``(D) To review engineering activities to ensure that all 
     broadcasting elements receive the highest quality and cost-
     effective delivery services.
       ``(E) To procure supplies, services, and other personal 
     property to carry out the functions of the Agency.
       ``(F) To obligate and expend, for official reception and 
     representation expenses, such amounts as may be made 
     available through appropriations.
       ``(G) To provide for the use of United States Government 
     transmitter capacity for relay of broadcasting by grantees.
       ``(H) To procure temporary and intermittent personal 
     services to the same extent as is authorized by section 3109 
     of title 5, United States Code, at rates not to exceed the 
     daily equivalent of the rate provided for positions 
     classified above grade GS-15 of the General Schedule under 
     section 5108 of title 5, United States Code.
       ``(I) To procure for the Agency, pursuant to section 1535 
     of title 31, United States Code goods and services from other 
     departments or agencies.

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       ``(J) To the extent funds are available, to lease space and 
     acquire personal property for the Agency.
       ``(d) Inspector General Authorities.--
       ``(1) In general.--The Inspector General of the Department 
     of State shall exercise the same authorities with respect to 
     the Agency as the Inspector General exercises under the 
     Inspector General Act of 1978 and section 209 of the Foreign 
     Service Act of 1980 with respect to the Department of State.
       ``(2) Respect for journalistic integrity of broadcasters.--
     The Inspector General of the Department of State and the 
     Foreign Service shall respect the journalistic integrity of 
     all the broadcasters covered by this title and may not 
     evaluate the philosophical or political perspectives 
     reflected in the content of broadcasts.''.
       (b) Retention of Existing Board Members.--The members of 
     the Broadcasting Board of Governors appointed by the 
     President pursuant to section 304 of the United States 
     International Broadcasting Act of 1994 on the day before the 
     effective date of this title and holding office as of that 
     date may serve the remainder of their terms of office as 
     members of the Board of Governors established under section 
     304(b) of the United States International Broadcasting Act of 
     1994, as amended by subsection (a) of this section, without 
     reappointment, or if their term has expired may serve until a 
     successor is appointed and qualified.

     SEC. 532. AUTHORITIES AND FUNCTIONS OF THE AGENCY.

       Section 305 of the United States International Broadcasting 
     Act of 1994 (22 U.S.C. 6204) is amended to read as follows:

     ``SEC. 305. AUTHORITIES AND FUNCTIONS OF THE AGENCY.

       ``(a) The Agency shall have the following authorities and 
     functions:
       ``(1) To supervise all broadcasting activities conducted 
     pursuant to this title, the Radio Broadcasting to Cuba Act, 
     and the Television Broadcasting to Cuba Act.
       ``(2) To review and evaluate the mission and operation of, 
     and to assess the quality, effectiveness, and professional 
     integrity of, all such activities within the context of the 
     broad foreign policy objectives of the United States and the 
     guiding principles and doctrines of the United States, 
     particularly freedom and democracy.
       ``(3) To develop strategic goals after reviewing human 
     rights reporting and other reliable assessments to assist in 
     determining programming and resource allocation.
       ``(4) To ensure that United States international 
     broadcasting is conducted in accordance with the standards 
     and principles contained in section 303.
       ``(5) To review, evaluate, and determine, at least 
     annually, after consultation with the Secretary of State, the 
     addition or deletion of language services.
       ``(6) To make and supervise grants for broadcasting and 
     related activities in accordance with sections 308 and 309.
       ``(7) To allocate funds appropriated for international 
     broadcasting activities among the various elements of the 
     Agency and grantees, subject to the limitations in sections 
     308 and 309 and subject to reprogramming notification 
     requirements in law for the reallocation of funds.
       ``(8) To undertake such studies as may be necessary to 
     identify areas in which broadcasting activities under its 
     authority could be made more efficient and economical.
       ``(9) To submit to the President and the Congress an annual 
     report which summarizes and evaluates activities under this 
     title, the Radio Broadcasting to Cuba Act, and the Television 
     Broadcasting to Cuba Act, placing special emphasis on the 
     assessment described in paragraph (2).
       ``(10) To make available in the annual report required by 
     paragraph (9) information on funds expended on administrative 
     and managerial services by the Agency and by grantees and the 
     steps the Agency has taken to reduce unnecessary overhead 
     costs for each of the broadcasting services.
       ``(11) To utilize the provisions of titles III, IV, V, VII, 
     VIII, IX, and X of the United States Information and 
     Educational Exchange Act of 1948, and section 6 of 
     Reorganization Plan Number 2 of 1977, as in effect on the day 
     before the effective date of title XIII of the Foreign 
     Affairs Agencies Consolidation Act of 1998, to the extent the 
     Director considers necessary in carrying out the 
     provisions and purposes of this title.
       ``(12) To utilize the authorities of any other statute, 
     reorganization plan, Executive order, regulation, agreement, 
     determination, or other official document or proceeding that 
     had been available to the Director of the United States 
     Information Agency, the Bureau, or the Board before the 
     effective date of title XIII of the Foreign Affairs 
     Consolidation Act of 1998 for carrying out the broadcasting 
     activities covered by this title.
       ``(b) Delegation of Authority.--The Board of Governors may 
     delegate to the Director of the Agency, or any other officer 
     or employee of the United States, the authorities provided in 
     this section, except those authorities provided in paragraph 
     (1), (2), (4), (5), (6), (7), or (9) of subsection (a).
       ``(c) Broadcasting Budgets.--The Director and the grantees 
     identified in sections 308 and 309 shall submit proposed 
     budgets to the Board. The Board shall forward its 
     recommendations concerning the proposed budget for the Board 
     and broadcasting activities under this title, the Radio 
     Broadcasting to Cuba Act, and the Television Broadcasting to 
     Cuba Act to the Office of Management and Budget.''.

     SEC. 533. ROLE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

       Section 306 of the United States International Broadcasting 
     Act of 1994 (22 U.S.C. 6205) is amended to read as follows:

     ``SEC. 306. ROLE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

       ``To assist the Agency in carrying out its functions, the 
     Secretary of State shall provide such information and 
     guidance on foreign policy and public diplomacy issues to the 
     Agency as the Secretary considers appropriate.''.

     SEC. 534. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS.

       The United States International Broadcasting Act of 1994 is 
     amended by striking section 307 and inserting the following 
     new section:

     ``SEC. 307. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS.

       ``(a) Officers and Employees.--The Board of Governors may 
     appoint and fix the compensation of such officers and 
     employees as may be necessary to carry out the functions of 
     the Agency. Except as otherwise provided by law, such 
     officers and employees shall be appointed in accordance with 
     the civil service laws and their compensation shall be fixed 
     in accordance with title 5, United States Code.
       ``(b) Experts and Consultants.--The Board of Governors, as 
     may be provided in appropriation Acts, may obtain the 
     services of experts and consultants in accordance with 
     section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, and may 
     compensate such experts and consultants at rates not to 
     exceed the daily rate prescribed for level IV of the 
     Executive Schedule under section 5315 of title 5, United 
     States Code.
       ``(c) Acceptance of Voluntary Services.--
       ``(1) In general.--Notwithstanding section 1342 of title 
     31, United States Code, the Board of Governors may accept, 
     subject to regulations issued by the Office of Personnel 
     Management, voluntary services if such services--
       ``(A) are to be uncompensated; and
       ``(B) are not used to displace any employee.
       ``(2) Treatment.--Any individual who provides voluntary 
     services under this section shall not be considered a Federal 
     employee for any purpose other than for purposes of chapter 
     81 of title 5, United States Code (relating to compensation 
     for injury) and sections 2671 through 2680 of title 28, 
     United States Code (relating to tort claims).
       ``(d) Delegation.--Except as otherwise provided in this 
     Act, the Board of Governors may delegate any function to the 
     Director and such other officers and employees of the Agency 
     as the Board of Governors may designate, and may authorize 
     such successive redelegations of such functions within the 
     Agency as may be necessary or appropriate.
       ``(e) Contracts.--
       ``(1) In general.--Subject to the Federal Property and 
     Administrative Services Act of 1949 and other applicable 
     Federal law, the Board of Governors may make, enter into, and 
     perform such contracts, grants, leases, cooperative 
     agreements, and other similar transactions with Federal or 
     other public agencies (including State and local governments) 
     and private organizations and persons, and to make such 
     payments, by way of advance or reimbursement, as the Board of 
     Governors may determine necessary or appropriate to carry out 
     functions of the Board of Governors or the Agency.
       ``(2) Appropriation authority required.--No authority to 
     enter into contracts or to make payments under this title 
     shall be effective except to such extent or in such amounts 
     as are provided in advance under appropriation Acts.
       ``(f) Regulations.--The Director may prescribe such rules 
     and regulations as the Board of Governors considers necessary 
     or appropriate to administer and manage the functions of the 
     Agency, in accordance with chapter 5 of title 5, United 
     States Code.
       ``(g) Seal.--The Director shall cause a seal of office to 
     be made for the Agency of such design as the Board of 
     Governors shall approve. Judicial notice shall be taken of 
     such seal.''.

     SEC. 535. BROADCASTING BOARD OF GOVERNORS AND INTERNATIONAL 
                   BROADCASTING BUREAU.

       The Broadcasting Board of Governors and the International 
     Broadcasting Bureau are abolished.

     SEC. 536. TRANSITION.

       (a) Transfer of Functions.--Except as otherwise provided in 
     this subtitle or an amendment made by this subtitle, all 
     functions that on the day before the effective date specified 
     in section 540 are authorized to be performed by the 
     Broadcasting Board of Governors and the International 
     Broadcasting Bureau and any officer, employee, or component 
     of such entities, under any statute, reorganization plan, 
     Executive order, or other provision of law, are transferred 
     to the Agency established under this title effective on that 
     date.
       (b) Determination of Certain Functions.--If necessary, the 
     Office of Management and Budget shall make any determination 
     of the functions that are transferred under this title.
       (c) Transition Provisions.--
       (1) Exercise of authorities.--Except as otherwise provided 
     by law, the Board of Governors may, for purposes of 
     performing a function that is transferred to the Agency by 
     this title, exercise all authorities under any other 
     provision of law that were available with respect to the 
     performance of that function to the official responsible for 
     the performance of that function on the day before the 
     effective date specified in section 540.
       (2) Authorities to wind up affairs.--
       (A) The Director of the Office of Management and Budget may 
     take such actions as the Director of the Office of Management 
     and Budget considers necessary to wind up any outstanding 
     affairs of the Broadcasting Board of Governors and the 
     International Broadcasting Bureau associated with the 
     functions that are transferred pursuant to subsection (a).
       (B) The Director of the Office of Management and Budget may 
     take such actions as the Director of the Office of Management 
     and Budget considers necessary to wind up any outstanding 
     affairs of the Broadcasting Board of Governors and the 
     International Broadcasting Bureau associated with the 
     functions that are transferred pursuant to subsection (a).

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       (3) Transfer of assets.--Any property, records, unexpended 
     balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds 
     employed, used, held, available, or to be made available in 
     connection with a function transferred to the Agency by this 
     Act are transferred on the effective date specified in 
     section 540.

     SEC. 537. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.

       (a) United States International Broadcasting Act of 1994.--
     The United States International Broadcasting Act of 1994 is 
     amended as follows:
       (1) Section 308 (22 U.S.C. 6207) is amended--
       (A) in subsection (a)--
       (i) by striking ``The Board'' and inserting ``The Agency''; 
     and
       (ii) in paragraph (1) by striking ``Broadcasting Board of 
     Governors'' and inserting ``Board Governors of the 
     International Broadcasting Agency'';
       (B) in subsection (b)--
       (i) by striking paragraph (2);
       (ii) by striking ``(1)''; and
       (iii) by striking ``Board'' both places it appears and 
     inserting ``Agency'';
       (C) in subsections (c), (d), (g), (h), and (i) by striking 
     ``Board'' each place it appears and inserting ``Agency'';
       (D) in subsection (g)(4) by striking ``International 
     Broadcasting Bureau'' and inserting ``Agency''; and
       (E) in subsections (i) and (j) by striking ``and the 
     Foreign Service'' each place it appears.
       (2) Section 309 (22 U.S.C. 6208) is amended--
       (A) in subsection (c)(1) by striking ``Board'' both places 
     it appears and inserting ``Agency'';
       (B) by striking subsection (e);
       (C) in subsections (f) and (g) by striking ``Board'' each 
     place it appears and inserting ``Agency''; and
       (D) in subsection (g) by striking ``Chairman of the Board'' 
     and inserting ``Agency''.
       (3) By striking section 311 (22 U.S.C. 6210).
       (4) In section 313 (22 U.S.C. 6212) by striking ``Board'' 
     and inserting ``Agency''.
       (5) In section 314 (22 U.S.C. 6213) by striking paragraph 
     (2).
       (6) By striking section 315.
       (b) Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act 
     of 1996.--Section 107 of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic 
     Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 (22 U.S.C. 6037) is amended 
     in subsections (a) and (b) by striking ``International 
     Broadcasting Bureau'' each place it appears and inserting 
     ``United States International Broadcasting Agency''.
       (c) Radio Broadcasting to Cuba Act.--The Radio Broadcasting 
     to Cuba Act (22 U.S.C. 1465 et seq.) is amended as follows:
       (1) In section 3 (22 U.S.C. 1465a) as follows:
       (A) In the section heading by striking ``BROADCASTING BOARD 
     OF GOVERNORS'' and inserting ``UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL 
     BROADCASTING AGENCY''.
       (B) In subsection (a) by striking ``the `Board')'' and 
     inserting ``the `Agency')''.
       (C) In subsections (a), (d), and (f) by striking 
     ``Broadcasting Board of Governors'' and inserting ``United 
     States International Broadcasting Agency''.
       (2) In section 4 (22 U.S.C. 1465b) as follows:
       (A) In the first sentence by striking ``The'' and all that 
     follows through ``Bureau'' and inserting: ``The Board of 
     Governors of the United States International Broadcasting 
     Agency shall establish within the Agency''.
       (B) In the third sentence by striking ``Broadcasting Board 
     of Governors'' and inserting ``Board of Governors of the 
     United States International Broadcasting Agency''.
       (C) In the fourth sentence by striking ``Board of the 
     International Broadcasting Bureau'' and inserting ``Board of 
     Governors of the United States International Broadcasting 
     Agency''.
       (3) In section 5 (22 U.S.C. 1465c) as follows:
       (A) In subsection (b) by striking ``Broadcasting Board of 
     Governors'' and inserting ``Board of Governors of the United 
     States International Broadcasting Agency''.
       (B) By striking ``Board'' each place it appears and 
     inserting ``Advisory Board''.
       (4) In section 6 (22 U.S.C. 1465d) as follows:
       (A) In subsection (a) by striking ``Broadcasting Board of 
     Governors'' and inserting ``United States International 
     Broadcasting Agency'' and by striking ``Board'' and 
     inserting ``Board of Directors of the United States 
     International Broadcasting Agency''.
       (B) In subsection (b) by striking ``Board'' and inserting 
     ``United States International Broadcasting Agency''.
       (5) In section 7 (22 U.S.C. 1465e) by striking ``Board'' in 
     subsections (b) and (d) and inserting ``United States 
     International Broadcasting Agency''.
       (6) In section 8(a) (22 U.S.C. 1465f(a)), by striking 
     ``Broadcasting Board of Governors'' and inserting ``United 
     States International Broadcasting Agency''.
       (d) Television Broadcasting to Cuba Act.--The Television 
     Broadcasting to Cuba Act (22 U.S.C. 1465aa note) is amended 
     as follows:
       (1) Section 243(a) (22 U.S.C. 1465bb) is amended by 
     striking ``Broadcasting Board of Governors'' and inserting 
     ``United States International Broadcasting Agency''.
       (2) Section 244 (22 U.S.C. 1465cc) is amended as follows:
       (A) In subsection (a) by amending the third sentence to 
     read as follows: ``The Board of Governors of the United 
     States International Broadcasting Agency shall appoint a head 
     of the Service who shall report directly to the Board of 
     Governors.''.
       (B) In subsection (b) by striking ``Board'' and inserting 
     ``United States International Broadcasting Agency''.
       (C) In subsection (c) by striking ``The Board'' and 
     inserting ``The Agency'' and by striking ``Board determines'' 
     and inserting ``Board of Governors of the United States 
     International Broadcasting Agency determines''.
       (3) In section 246 (22 U.S.C. 1465dd) by striking ``United 
     States Information Agency'' and inserting ``United States 
     International Broadcasting Agency'' and by striking ``Board'' 
     and inserting ``Board of Governors of the United States 
     International Broadcasting Agency''.
       (e) United States Information and Educational Exchange Act 
     of 1948.--The United States Information and Educational 
     Exchange Act of 1948 (22 U.S.C. 1431 et seq.) is amended--
       (1) in section 505 (22 U.S.C. 1464a), by striking 
     ``Broadcasting Board of Governors'' each place it appears and 
     inserting ``United States International Broadcasting 
     Agency''; and
       (2) in section 506(c) (22 U.S.C. 1464b(c))--
       (A) by striking ``Broadcasting Board of Governors'' and 
     inserting ``United States International Broadcasting 
     Agency''; and
       (B) by striking ``Board'' and inserting ``Agency''.
       (f) Foreign Service Act of 1980.--The Foreign Service Act 
     of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3901 et seq.) is amended--
       (1) in section 202(a)(1) (22 U.S.C. 3922(a)(1)), by 
     striking ``Broadcasting Board of Governors'' and inserting 
     ``United States International Broadcasting Agency'';
       (2) in section 210 (22 U.S.C. 3930), by striking 
     ``Broadcasting Board of Governors'' and inserting ``United 
     States International Broadcasting Agency'';
       (3) in section 1003(a) (22 U.S.C. 4103(a)), by striking 
     ``Broadcasting Board of Governors'' and inserting ``United 
     States International Broadcasting Agency''; and
       (4) in section 1101(c) (22 U.S.C. 4131(c)), by striking 
     ``Broadcasting Board of Governors,'' and inserting ``the 
     United States International Broadcasting Agency,''.
       (g) State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956.--The 
     State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 
     2651a et seq.) is amended--
       (1) in section 23(a) (22 U.S.C. 2695(a)), by striking 
     ``Broadcasting Board of Governors,'' and inserting ``United 
     States International Broadcasting Agency,'';
       (2) in section 25(f) (22 U.S.C. 2697(f))--
       (A) by striking ``Broadcasting Board of Governors'' and 
     inserting ``United States International Broadcasting 
     Agency''; and
       (B) by striking ``the Board and the Agency'' and inserting 
     ``their respective agencies'';
       (3) in section 26(b) (22 U.S.C. 2698(b))--
       (A) by striking `Broadcasting Board of Governors,'' and 
     inserting ``United States International Broadcasting 
     Agency''; and
       (B) by striking ``the Board and the Agency'' and inserting 
     ``their respective agencies''; and
       (4) in section 32 (22 U.S.C. 2704), by striking 
     ``Broadcasting Board of Governors'' and inserting ``United 
     States International Broadcasting Agency''.
       (h) Title 5, United States Code.--
       (1) Section 5314 of title 5, United States Code, is amended 
     by adding at the end the following: ``Director, United States 
     International Broadcasting Agency.''.
       (2) Section 5315 of title 5, United States Code, is amended 
     by striking ``Director of the International Broadcasting 
     Bureau.''.

     SEC. 538. REFERENCES.

       Except as otherwise provided in this subtitle or an 
     amendment made by this subtitle, any reference in any 
     statute, reorganization plan, Executive order, regulation, 
     agreement, determination, or other official document or 
     proceeding to the Broadcasting Board of Governors and the 
     International Broadcasting Bureau or any other officer or 
     employee of the Broadcasting Board of Governors or the 
     International Broadcasting Bureau shall be deemed to refer to 
     the United States International Broadcasting Agency or the 
     Board of Governors of the United States International 
     Broadcasting Agency established under this subtitle.

     SEC. 539. BROADCASTING STANDARDS.

       Section 303(a) of the United States International 
     Broadcasting Act of 1994 (22 U.S.C. 6202(a)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (6) by striking ``and'';
       (2) in paragraph (8) by striking the period and inserting 
     ``; and''; and
       (3) by adding after paragraph (8) the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(9) seek to ensure that resources are allocated to 
     broadcasts directed at people whose governments deny freedom 
     of expression or who are otherwise in special need of honest 
     and professional broadcasting, commensurate with the need for 
     such broadcasts.''.

     SEC. 540. EFFECTIVE DATE.

       Except as otherwise provided, this subtitle and the 
     amendments made by this subtitle shall take effect on the 
     last day of the 6-month period beginning on the date of the 
     enactment of this Act.

             TITLE VI--INTERNATIONAL FREE MEDIA ACT OF 2003

     SEC. 601. SHORT TITLE.

       This title may be cited as the ``International Free Media 
     Act of 2003''.

     SEC. 602. DEFINITIONS.

       In this title, the term ``free media'' means individuals or 
     organizations engaged in the gathering and distribution of 
     news and information free of direct or indirect governmental 
     control.

     SEC. 603. FINDINGS.

       The Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) Freedom of speech and freedom of the press are 
     fundamental human rights enshrined in international law.
       (2) The United States has a national interest in promoting 
     these freedoms by supporting free media abroad, which is 
     essential to the development of free and democratic societies 
     consistent with our own.
       (3) Free media is undermined, endangered, or nonexistent in 
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     societies around the world, including in Eurasia, Africa, and 
     the Middle East.
       (4) Free media is suppressed by foreign governments by a 
     variety of means, including state censorship, legal 
     restriction, financial pressure, and physical intimidation.
       (5) Unprofessional and unethical media that violate widely 
     accepted standards of professional journalism and editorial 
     practice compromises the ability of a free media to 
     contribute to open, fair, and constructive democratic debate.
       (6) Unprofessional and unethical media includes media that 
     violate the standards set in the International Covenant on 
     Civil and Political Rights, which includes article 20, 
     section 2 of the Covenant which states that ``Any advocacy of 
     national, racial, or religious hatred that constitutes 
     incitement to discrimination, hostility, or violence shall be 
     prohibited by law.''.
       (7) Individuals lacking access to a plurality of free media 
     are vulnerable to misinformation and propaganda and are 
     potentially more likely to adopt anti-American views.
       (8) Foreign governments have a responsibility to actively 
     and publicly discourage and rebut unprofessional and 
     unethical media while respecting journalistic integrity and 
     editorial independence.
       (9) Past and continuing United States Government efforts to 
     promote free media through training and technical support 
     have advanced United States national interests by 
     contributing to the promotion of human rights and democracy 
     worldwide.
       (10) Support for free media must be an integral part of 
     United States foreign policy, including public diplomacy and 
     United States international broadcasting, and should be 
     coordinated across government agencies and with 
     international, bilateral, and private donor organizations 
     toward achieving the shared goal of developing professional, 
     ethical, diversified, sustainable, independent, indigenous 
     media worldwide.

     SEC. 604. STATEMENTS OF POLICY.

       It shall be the policy of the United States, acting through 
     the Secretary of State, to--
       (1) make the promotion of press freedoms and free media 
     worldwide a priority of United States foreign policy and an 
     integral component of United States public diplomacy;
       (2) respect the journalistic integrity and editorial 
     independence of free media worldwide;
       (3) use widely accepted standards for professional and 
     ethical journalistic and editorial practices in assessing 
     international media; and
       (4) discourage incitement to discrimination, hostility, or 
     violence, based on nationality, race, or religion, as 
     described in article 20, section 2, of the International 
     Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and develop a 
     strategy to respond to it.

     SEC. 605. COORDINATOR FOR INTERNATIONAL FREE MEDIA.

       (a) Establishment.--There is established within the 
     Department of State a Coordinator for International Free 
     Media (in this section referred to as the ``Coordinator''). 
     At the discretion of the President another official at the 
     Department of State may serve as the Coordinator.
       (b) Appointment of Coordinator.--The Coordinator shall be 
     appointed by the President, by and with the advice and 
     consent of the Senate.
       (c) Duties.--The principal duties of the Coordinator shall 
     be the promotion of international press freedoms and free 
     media by--
       (1) coordinating United States government policies, 
     programs, and projects concerning international press 
     freedoms and free media;
       (2) in consultation with appropriate agencies of the United 
     States Government and national and international 
     organizations, monitoring and assessing the status of free 
     media and government controlled sources of information, 
     including for incitement of national, racial, or religious 
     hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, 
     hostility, or violence, as described in article 20 of the 
     International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;
       (3) promoting widely accepted standards of professional and 
     ethical journalism and editorial practices;
       (4) discouraging media and government controlled sources of 
     information from advocating national, racial, or religious 
     hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, 
     hostility, or violence consistent with article 20, section 2 
     of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;
       (5) reporting foreign media that advocates national, 
     racial, or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to 
     discrimination, hostility, or violence consistent with 
     article 20, section 2, of the International Covenant on Civil 
     and Political Rights and making available to the public and 
     to the United States Agency for International Broadcasting 
     translations of such media to the extent practicable;
       (6) promoting the journalistic integrity and editorial 
     independence of free media worldwide;
       (7) advising the President and the Secretary of State 
     regarding matters of international press freedoms and free 
     media;
       (8) representing the United States in matters and cases 
     relevant to international press freedoms and free media;
       (9) assisting the Secretary of State in preparing the 
     portions of the Department of State country reports on human 
     rights that relate to international press freedoms and free 
     media and incitement to acts of discrimination;
       (10) consulting with the Broadcasting Board of Governors 
     and the United States Agency for International Development 
     for the purpose of promoting free media through training of 
     international journalists, producers, editors, and media 
     managers; and
       (11) administering the International Free Media Fund 
     (established in section 607) in consultation with the United 
     States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy and 
     International Media.
       (d) Assessment Factors.--In making an assessment of media 
     within individual countries pursuant to subsection (c)(2), 
     the Coordinator shall take into account--
       (1) the number and diversity of media;
       (2) access to and consumption of media by populations;
       (3) the extent of direct or indirect government ownership, 
     control, or censorship of media outlets;
       (4) the financial viability and profitability of free 
     media;
       (5) the extent to which journalists, editors, and media 
     managers adhere to widely accepted standards for professional 
     and ethical journalism;
       (6) domestic laws addressing press freedoms;
       (7) instances in which the media and government-controlled 
     sources of information have incited discrimination, 
     hostility, or violence consistent with article 20, section 2 
     of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;
       (8) physical threats, intimidation or inappropriate 
     pressure by government on free media;
       (9) the number of journalists, editors, producers, and 
     media managers receiving training from programs of the 
     Department of State, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, 
     grantees of the United States Agency for International 
     Development, or other organizations qualified to provide such 
     training; and
       (10) the activity of local and international 
     nongovernmental organizations promoting press freedoms and 
     free media and obstacles to their activity.
       (e) Consultation Requirement.--The Coordinator shall 
     consult with United States public affairs officers and other 
     United States foreign mission personnel directly engaged in 
     interacting with indigenous media in carrying out the duties 
     specified in subsection (c).
       (f) Determination.--The Coordinator shall determine, and 
     annually report to the appropriate congressional committees, 
     whether there is a pattern of government-controlled 
     information that constitutes incitement (as described in 
     article 20 of the International Covenant on Civil and 
     Political Rights) and that endangers United States citizens 
     or nationals, impairs relations between the United States and 
     the foreign government, or constitutes incitement to 
     national, racial, or religious discrimination, hostility, or 
     violence. The Coordinator shall specify the governments 
     engaged in such practices and examples of such incitement and 
     propaganda.
       (g) Funding.--The Secretary of State shall ensure that the 
     Coordinator has adequate staff and funding for the conduct of 
     investigations, the administration of the International Free 
     Media Fund, necessary travel, and other activities necessary 
     to carry out the provisions of this section.

     SEC. 606. UNITED STATES ADVISORY COMMISSION ON PUBLIC 
                   DIPLOMACY AND INTERNATIONAL MEDIA.

       (a) Establishment.--Section 604(a)(1) of the United States 
     Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (22 U.S.C. 
     1469) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(1) There is established an advisory commission to be 
     known as the United States Advisory Commission on Public 
     Diplomacy and International Media.''.
       (b) Duties and Responsibilities.--Section 604(c) of the 
     United States Information and Exchange Act of 1948 (22 U.S.C. 
     1469) is amended by adding at the end the following:
       ``(5) The Commission shall--
       ``(A) advise the Coordinator for International Free Media 
     on issues relating to the promotion of international press 
     freedoms and free media;
       ``(B) assist the Coordinator for International Free Media 
     in monitoring and assessing the status of free media 
     worldwide;
       ``(C) consult with the Coordinator on the administration of 
     the International Free Media Fund; and
       ``(D) make policy recommendations to the President, the 
     Secretary of State, and Congress with respect to matters 
     involving international press freedoms and free media.''.
       (c) References.--Except as otherwise provided in this 
     section or an amendment made by this section, any reference 
     in any statute, reorganization plan, Executive order, 
     regulation, agreement, determination, or other official 
     document or proceeding to the United States Advisory 
     Commission on Public Diplomacy or any other officer or 
     employee of the United States Advisory Commission on Public 
     Diplomacy shall be deemed to refer to the United States 
     Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy and International 
     Media established under this section.

     SEC. 607. INTERNATIONAL FREE MEDIA FUND.

       (a) Establishment.--There is established an International 
     Free Media Fund (in this section referred to as the ``Fund'') 
     at the Department of State.
       (b) Purposes.--The purposes of the Fund shall be--
       (1) to promote the development of free and independent 
     media worldwide which adhere to widely accepted standards of 
     professional and ethical journalism and editorial practice; 
     and
       (2) to complement current efforts by the Department of 
     State, the United States Agency for International 
     Development, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, and other 
     agencies of the United States Government to support free and 
     independent media worldwide.
       (c) Authorization of Appropriations.--In addition to 
     amounts otherwise authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
     the purposes specified in subsection (b), there is authorized 
     to be appropriated to the Fund $15,000,000 for fiscal year 
     2004. Such amounts are authorized to remain available until 
     expended.
       (d) Nonapplicability of Other Laws.--Notwithstanding any 
     other provision of law, funds

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     appropriated pursuant to subsection (c) may be used for the 
     purposes of this section.
       (e) Administration.--
       (1) The Fund shall be administered by the Coordinator in 
     consultation with the Commission.
       (2) Activities and assistance financed through the Fund may 
     be carried out through grants, contracts, technical 
     assistance, and material support.
       (f) Eligible Organizations, Programs, and Projects.--
     Amounts in the Fund may be used to carry out activities and 
     provide assistance only for organizations, programs, and 
     projects consistent with the purposes set forth in subsection 
     (b).
       (g) Prohibitions.--Amounts in the Fund shall not be used to 
     carry out activities or provide assistance to organizations, 
     programs, or projects which advocate national, racial, or 
     religious hatred that incites discrimination, hostility, or 
     violence consistent with article 20, section 2 of the 
     International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
       (h) Assistance Criteria.--In administering the Fund, the 
     Coordinator shall take into account--
       (1) the importance of providing assistance to 
     organizations, programs, and projects based on their proven 
     or potential contribution to the development of a free media 
     environment worldwide;
       (2) the importance of enabling free media to become 
     commercially viable and financially independent in the long 
     term; and
       (3) the importance of providing media personnel whose 
     organizations, programs, or projects receive assistance under 
     this section for training in professional and ethical 
     journalism, editorial practices, and media management by the 
     Department of State, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, 
     United States Agency for International Development grantees, 
     or other organizations qualified to provide such training.
       (i) Annual Reports.--Not later than January 31, of 2005 and 
     in each subsequent year, the Coordinator shall publish an 
     annual report on the activities of the Fund, which shall 
     include a comprehensive and detailed description of the 
     operations, activities, financial condition, and 
     accomplishments under this section for the preceding fiscal 
     year. The reports shall also include an assessment of whether 
     the Fund should also provide loans and guarantees as an 
     additional means to carry out the purposes of this title.
       (j) Consultation Requirements.--
       (1) The Coordinator shall consult with the State Department 
     official primarily responsible for developing and 
     implementing United States policy with respect to a country 
     prior to carrying out activities or providing assistance for 
     such country through the Fund.
       (2) Amounts in the Fund shall be used to carry out 
     activities or provide assistance on the basis of 
     consultations among all relevant United States Government 
     agencies operating in the country and with the approval of 
     the chief of mission.

     SEC. 608. FREE MEDIA PROMOTION ACTIVITY OF THE BROADCASTING 
                   BOARD OF GOVERNORS.

       (a) In General.--The Broadcasting Board of Governors shall 
     make support for indigenous free media an integral part of 
     its mission.
       (b) Affiliates.--The Broadcasting Board of Governors shall 
     submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees 
     on the prospects and strategy for cultivating affiliate 
     relationships with free media in countries targeted for 
     United States international broadcasting.
       (c) Training.--The Broadcasting Board of Governors shall 
     enhance foreign journalist training programs in coordination 
     with existing training programs administered by the 
     Department of State and the United States Agency for 
     International Development.
       (d) Authorization for Appropriations.--In addition to 
     amounts otherwise authorized to be appropriated, there is 
     authorized to be appropriated $2,500,000 for the fiscal year 
     2004 and $2,500,000 for the fiscal year 2005 to support free 
     media in countries in which the Broadcasting Board of 
     Governors is decreasing or discontinuing United States 
     international broadcasting activity.

                  TITLE VII--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

                   Subtitle A--Reporting Requirements

     SEC. 701. REPORTS TO COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.

       Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for the fiscal 
     years 2004 and 2005, any report required by law or otherwise 
     requested to be submitted by the Secretary of State or the 
     Department of State to any committee of the Congress shall be 
     submitted also to the Committee on International Relations of 
     the House of Representatives.

     SEC. 702. REPORTS CONCERNING THE CAPTURE AND PROSECUTION OF 
                   PARAMILITARY AND OTHER TERRORIST LEADERS IN 
                   COLOMBIA.

       (a) Findings.--The Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) As reported in the Department of State report Patterns 
     of Global Terrorism 2001, the United Self-Defense Forces of 
     Colombia (also referred to as ``AUC'' or ``paramilitaries'') 
     have been designated as a foreign terrorist organization by 
     the United States primarily because of their increasing 
     reliance on terrorist methods, such as the use of massacres, 
     to purposefully displace segments of the population as 
     retaliation for allegedly supporting the AUC's rival 
     organizations, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia 
     (FARC) and the National Liberation Army (ELN) of Colombia. 
     According to the report, the paramilitaries also use 
     terrorist tactics to compete for narcotics-trafficking 
     corridors and prime coca-growing terrain.
       (2) The Department of State concluded in the 2001 Country 
     Report on Human Rights Practices that despite increased 
     efforts by the Government of Colombia to combat and capture 
     members of paramilitary groups, security forces sometimes 
     illegally collaborate with paramilitaries forces and often 
     fail to take action to prevent paramilitary attacks which 
     lead to serious abuses of human rights.
       (3) In September 2002, Amnesty International, Human Rights 
     Watch, and the Washington Office on Latin America released a 
     report which argued that the Colombian Government had not 
     made substantial progress toward suspending officers 
     implicated in human rights abuses, conducting effective 
     judicial investigations of such abuses, or breaking the 
     persistent links between some units of the Colombian military 
     and paramilitary groups.
       (4) In February 2003, the United Nations High Commissioner 
     for Human Rights in Colombia reported that some units of the 
     Colombian Security Forces continued to collude openly with 
     illegal paramilitary groups in operations which resulted in 
     violations of human rights.
       (5) The Consolidated Appropriations Resolution, 2003 
     (Public Law 108-7) made available not less than $5,000,000 to 
     support a Colombian Armed Forces unit which is dedicated to 
     apprehending leaders of Colombian paramilitary organizations.
       (b) Reports to Congress.--Not later than 30 days after the 
     date of enactment of this Act, and every 180 days thereafter, 
     the Secretary of State, after consulting with internationally 
     recognized human rights organizations pursuant to the 
     procedures required in section 564(b) of the Consolidated 
     Appropriations Resolution, 2003, shall submit a report, in 
     unclassified form (with a classified annex if necessary), on 
     the specific measures that the Colombian authorities are 
     taking to apprehend effectively and prosecute aggressively 
     leaders of paramilitary organizations, to the Committee on 
     International Relations of the House of Representatives and 
     the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate.
       (c) Contents of Reports.--Each report submitted pursuant to 
     subsection (b) shall--
       (1) identify which Colombian Armed Forces units are 
     receiving assistance to apprehend leaders of Colombian 
     paramilitary organizations;
       (2) describe the amount and purposes of such assistance;
       (3) describe operations by Colombian security forces to 
     apprehend and arrest leaders of Colombian paramilitary 
     organizations;
       (4) list the number of detentions, captures, and arrests of 
     leaders of Colombian paramilitary organizations, 
     disaggregating the number according to those detentions, 
     captures, and arrests which were carried out by Colombian 
     security forces identified under paragraph (1);
       (5) briefly describe the status of investigations and 
     prosecutions of cases by the Colombian Attorney General's 
     office involving the arrests of leaders of Colombian 
     paramilitary organizations; and
       (6) estimate the number of hours of use by the Colombian 
     military of helicopters provided by the United States under 
     Plan Colombia and successor programs to apprehend the leaders 
     of Colombian paramilitary organizations, as well as leaders 
     of the FARC and ELN, including those individuals who have 
     United States indictments pending against them.

     SEC. 703. REPORTS RELATING TO MAGEN DAVID ADOM SOCIETY.

       (a) Findings.--Section 690(a) of the Foreign Relations 
     Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2003 (Public Law 107-228) is 
     amended by adding at the end the following:
       ``(5) Since the founding of the Magen David Adom in 1930, 
     the American Red Cross has regarded it as a sister national 
     society forging close working ties between the two societies 
     and has consistently advocated recognition and membership of 
     the Magen David Adom in the International Red Cross and Red 
     Crescent Movement.
       ``(6) The American Red Cross and Magen David Adom signed an 
     important memorandum of understanding in November 2002, 
     outlining areas for strategic collaboration, and the American 
     Red Cross will encourage other societies to establish similar 
     agreements with Magen David Adom.''.
       (b) Sense of Congress.--Section 690(b) of such Act is 
     amended--
       (1) in paragraph (3) after the semicolon by striking 
     ``and'';
       (2) by redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph (5); and
       (3) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(4) the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva 
     Conventions of August 12, 1949, should adopt the October 12, 
     2000, draft additional protocol which would accord 
     international recognition to an additional distinctive 
     emblem; and''.
       (c) Report.--Section 690 of such Act is further amended by 
     adding at the end the following:
       ``(c) Report.--Not later than 60 days after the date of the 
     enactment of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal 
     Years 2004 and 2005 and annually thereafter, the Secretary 
     of State shall submit a report, on a classified basis if 
     necessary, to the appropriate congressional committees 
     describing--
       ``(1) efforts by the United States to obtain full 
     membership for the Magen David Adom in the International Red 
     Cross Movement;
       ``(2) efforts by the International Committee of the Red 
     Cross to obtain full membership for the Magen David Adom in 
     the International Red Cross Movement;
       ``(3) efforts of the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva 
     Convention of 1949 to adopt the October 12, 2000, draft 
     additional protocol; and
       ``(4) the extent to which the Magen David Adom of Israel is 
     participating in the activities of the International Red 
     Cross and Red Crescent Movement.''.

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     SEC. 704. REPORT CONCERNING THE RETURN OF PORTRAITS OF 
                   HOLOCAUST VICTIMS TO THE ARTIST DINA BABBITT.

       (a) Findings.--The Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) Dina Babbitt (formerly known as Dinah Gottliebova), a 
     United States citizen, has requested the return of watercolor 
     portraits she painted while suffering a one and one-half year 
     long internment at the Auschwitz death camp during World 
     War II, where she was ordered to paint portraits by the 
     infamous war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele.
       (2) Congress has previously considered the issue, under the 
     Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2003 (Public 
     Law 107-228), and urged the Administration to facilitate the 
     return of the paintings to Dina Babbitt.
       (3) The Administration has not yet reported any progress in 
     furthering this goal, nor has the Secretary reported on the 
     status of any negotiations held with the intent of furthering 
     this goal.
       (b) Sense of Congress.--The Congress--
       (1) continues to recognize the moral right of Dina Babbitt 
     to obtain the artwork she created, and recognizes her courage 
     in the face of the evils perpetrated by the Nazi command of 
     the Auschwitz- Birkenau death camp, including the atrocities 
     committed by Dr. Josef Mengele;
       (2) urges the President of the United States to make all 
     necessary efforts to retrieve the 7 watercolor portraits 
     painted by Dina Babbitt, during her internment at the 
     Auschwitz death camp; and
       (3) urges the Secretary of State to make immediate 
     diplomatic efforts to facilitate the transfer of the 7 
     original watercolors painted by Dina Babbitt from the 
     Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum to Dina Babbitt, their 
     rightful owner.
       (c) Reporting Requirement.--Not later than 180 days after 
     the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State 
     shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional 
     committees, describing all diplomatic efforts the United 
     States has taken to facilitate the return of the paintings 
     referred to in this section to Dina Babbitt.

     SEC. 705. REPORT TO CONGRESS ON USE OF VESTED ASSETS.

       Section 203(a) of the International Emergency Economic 
     Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702(a)) is amended--
       (1) in subparagraph (C), by inserting ``, subject to 
     paragraph (4),'' after ``such interest or property shall''; 
     and
       (2) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(4) The authority under paragraph (1)(C) to use property 
     that has been vested or to use assets that have been 
     liquidated may not be exercised until 15 days after the 
     President has notified the Committee on International 
     Relations of the House of Representatives and the Committee 
     on Foreign Relations of the Senate of the purpose for which 
     such vested property or liquidated assets will be so used.''.

     SEC. 706. REPORT CONCERNING THE CONFLICT IN UGANDA.

       (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of the Congress 
     that the United States should--
       (1) exhaust all diplomatic means and pressures, including 
     the creation of a United States role in negotiating 
     humanitarian access to hitherto inaccessible populations 
     which would offer an opportunity to bring the warring parties 
     together to build confidence, to support an immediate 
     peaceful resolution to the 16-year old conflict in Northern 
     Uganda that has--
       (A) killed an estimated 23,000 people, including 12,000 
     civilians,
       (B) resulted in the forced abduction, sexual servitude, and 
     armed recruitment of between 16,000 to 26,000 Ugandan 
     children by the Lord's Resistance Army, a renegade army that 
     has in the past sought refuge in southern Sudan and raided 
     villages in northern Uganda,
       (C) displaced over 800,000 Ugandan citizens and Sudanese 
     refugees,
       (D) resulted in the death and abduction of humanitarian aid 
     workers, and
       (E) gravely inhibited the delivery of emergency assistance 
     and food aid to nearly 1 million northern Ugandan civilians 
     dependent on such assistance for survival;
       (2) urge rebel forces to stop the abduction of children, 
     urge all forces to stop the use of child soldiers, and seek 
     the release of all forcibly-held children;
       (3) make available technical assistance resources to seek, 
     track, and stop funding for the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) 
     from all sources and condemn all governments and 
     organizations who do assist the LRA;
       (4) monitor and support negotiations conducted by third-
     party institutions for an immediate cease-fire between the 
     LRA and the Ugandan Government, and to explore the 
     possibility of facilitating the creation of mechanisms for an 
     international monitoring team to enforce this cease-fire as 
     the first step in the process toward a permanent peace;
       (5) continue supporting the Sudan Peace Process and 
     Danforth Initiative, which includes peace talks, donor 
     coordination, regional support, civilian protection and 
     monitoring, and cease-fire verification and consider modeling 
     aspects of this process in northern Uganda;
       (6) make available sufficient resources to meet the 
     immediate relief of the towns and cities supporting large 
     displaced populations, including food, clean water, medicine, 
     shelter, and clothing;
       (7) make available increased resources for assistance to 
     released and returned abducted children and child soldiers 
     and ensure that amnesty is provided when appropriate;
       (8) work with other donors and the Ugandan Government to 
     increase resources and technical support to the Uganda 
     Amnesty Commission for the increased demobilization of rebel 
     combatants;
       (9) examine ways in which development assistance can help 
     those living in protective villages in northern Uganda return 
     to and cultivate farmland; and
       (10) condition military assistance to Uganda on its 
     international compliance with sustained troop withdrawals 
     from the Democratic Republic of Congo where the presence of 
     Ugandan armies has contributed to the violence and 
     instability in the region.
       (b) Reports to Congress.--Not later than 180 days after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act, and not later than April 1 
     of each subsequent year, the Secretary shall submit to the 
     appropriate congressional committees a report on the 
     comprehensive actions of the United States in seeking a 
     peaceful and immediate solution to conflict in northern 
     Uganda as well as humanitarian assistance efforts to the 
     region, including efforts to advance each area addressed in 
     subsection (a).

     SEC. 707. REQUIREMENT FOR REPORT ON UNITED STATES POLICY 
                   TOWARD HAITI.

       (a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) The United States has a political and economic interest 
     and a humanitarian and moral responsibility in assisting the 
     Government and people of Haiti in resolving the country's 
     problems and challenges.
       (2) The situation in Haiti is increasingly cause for alarm 
     and concern, and a sustained, coherent, and active approach 
     by the United States Government is needed to make progress 
     toward resolving Haiti's political and economic crises.
       (b) Requirement for Report.--Not later than 60 days after 
     the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary, in 
     consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, shall submit 
     to the appropriate congressional committees a report that 
     describes United States policy toward Haiti. The report shall 
     include the following:
       (1) A description of the activities carried out by the 
     United States Government to resolve Haiti's political crisis 
     and to promote the holding of free and fair elections in 
     Haiti at the earliest possible date.
       (2) A description of the activities that the United States 
     Government anticipates initiating to resolve the political 
     crisis and promote free and fair elections in Haiti.
       (3) An assessment of whether Resolution 822 issued by the 
     Permanent Council of the Organization of American States on 
     September 4, 2002, is an appropriate framework for a 
     multilateral approach to resolving the political and economic 
     crises in Haiti.
       (4) A description of the status of efforts to release the 
     approximately $146,000,000 in loan funds that have been 
     approved by the Inter-American Development Bank to Haiti for 
     the purposes of rehabilitating rural roads, reorganizing the 
     health sector, improving potable water supply and sanitation, 
     and providing basic education, a description of any obstacles 
     that are delaying the release of the loan funds, and 
     recommendations for overcoming such obstacles, including 
     whether any of the following would facilitate the release of 
     such funds:
       (A) Establishing an International Monetary Fund staff 
     monitoring program in Haiti.
       (B) Obtaining bridge loans or other sources of funding to 
     pay the cost of any arrears owed by the Government of Haiti 
     to the Inter-American Development Bank.
       (C) Providing technical assistance to the Government of 
     Haiti to permit the Government to meet international 
     financial transparency and other requirements.

     SEC. 708. REPORT ON THE EFFECTS OF PLAN COLOMBIA ON ECUADOR.

       (a) Findings.--The Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) Section 695 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, 
     Fiscal Year 2003 (Public Law 107-228) required the Secretary 
     of State to submit a report to Congress on the impact of Plan 
     Colombia on Ecuador and the other adjacent countries to 
     Colombia within 150 days after the date of the enactment of 
     that Act.
       (2) The 150 day time period for the submission of such 
     report has lapsed without a report being submitted to the 
     Congress.
       (3) There continues to be growing alarm concerning the 
     spillover effect of Plan Colombia on Ecuador, a frontline 
     state, especially in the northern region of Ecuador which 
     includes the Sucumbios province.
       (b) Report to Congress.--Not later than 30 days after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State 
     shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional 
     committees which sets forth--
       (A) a statement of policy and comprehensive strategy for 
     United States activities in Colombia related to the impact of 
     Plan Colombia on Ecuador and the other adjacent countries to 
     Colombia; and
       (B) the reasons for the failure of the Department of State 
     to submit the report required by section 695 of Public Law 
     107-228 within the time period mandated by law.

     SEC. 709. REPORT ON ACTIONS TAKEN BY PAKISTAN.

       For each of fiscal years 2004 and 2005, the President shall 
     prepare and transmit to the appropriate congressional 
     committees a report that contains a description of the extent 
     to which the Government of Pakistan--
       (1) has closed all known terrorist training camps operating 
     in Pakistan and Pakistani-held Kashmir;
       (2) has established serious and identifiable measures to 
     prohibit the infiltration of Islamic extremists across the 
     ``Line of Control'' (LoC) into India; and
       (3) has ceased the transfer of weapons of mass destruction, 
     including any associated technologies, to any third country 
     or terrorist organization.

     SEC. 710. REPORT ON DEMOCRACY IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.

       (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
       (1) Although 34 out of 35 countries in the Western 
     Hemisphere have held elections for civilian leaders of 
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     governments, many of these countries have failed to 
     successfully develop independent democratic institutions, 
     transparent and accountable governance, and effective means 
     of guaranteeing the rule of law, which are key components of 
     a fully functioning democracy.
       (2) The rule of law, independent democratic institutions, 
     and transparent, accountable governance are essential for 
     guaranteeing human rights, especially civil, political, and 
     labor rights.
       (3) The rule of law, independent democratic institutions, 
     and transparent accountable governance are also necessary for 
     promoting successful economic development and reliable 
     trading and investment mechanisms.
       (4) In part because of the lack of these three factors, 
     progress on human rights and economic development has lagged 
     or been uneven in much of the Western Hemisphere, leading 
     some to question the benefits of democracy itself as a path 
     for improving the lives of individuals in the hemisphere.
       (5) For democracy to continue in many of these countries, 
     for human rights to improve, and for regional economic 
     integration to be successful, the rule of law, independent 
     democratic institutions, and transparent accountable 
     governance must be strengthened.
       (6) As a strong supporter of democracy and human rights and 
     as an advocate of regional economic integration, it is in the 
     interests of the United States to enhance its efforts to 
     promote a deepening of democracy in the Western Hemisphere, 
     particularly through strengthening the rule of law, 
     independent democratic institutions, and transparent 
     accountable governance.
       (b) Report.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary, in consultation with 
     the heads of other Federal departments and agencies as 
     necessary, shall prepare and submit to the appropriate 
     congressional committees a report on the state of democracy 
     in each country in the Western Hemisphere (other than the 
     United States and Canada). For each such country, the report 
     shall provide the following:
       (1) A description of its system of government, including 
     schedule of elections, manner of judicial appointments, and 
     responsibilities of each branch of government.
       (2) An assessment of--
       (A) the state of the rule of law;
       (B) the power and independence of each branch of government 
     and institutions;
       (C) the transparence and accountability in governance; and
       (D) the effect on human rights, particularly civil and 
     political rights, caused by the presence (or lack thereof) of 
     any of the factors in subparagraphs (A) through (C); and
       (E) the effect on economic development caused by the 
     presence (or lack thereof) of any of the factors in 
     subparagraphs (A) through (C).
       (3) A description of efforts to strengthen the rule of law, 
     independent institutions, or transparent governance in the 
     country, whether through local efforts or through efforts 
     funded or implemented by the United States, the Organization 
     of American States (OAS), or others.

     SEC. 711. REPORT CONCERNING INTERNAL AND INTRA-REGIONAL 
                   CONFLICTS IN THE GREAT LAKES REGION OF AFRICA.

       (a) Findings.--The Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) The Great Lakes region of Central Africa has a history 
     of colonial based ethnic divisions, political violence, and 
     civil wars which have perpetuated conditions conducive to 
     chronic poverty and turmoil over the past decade. The 
     countries of the Great Lakes region are heavily embroiled in 
     the conflicts within their neighbors borders. At different 
     times, the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has 
     involved more outside countries than any other contemporary 
     war in Africa's history, (including Angola, Rwanda, Uganda, 
     Zimbabwe, Burundi, Sudan, Chad, Namibia, and Central African 
     Republic).
       (2) The region is hallmarked by genocide, the recruitment 
     of child soldiers, war crimes, systematic rape of women and 
     violence directed against children, corruption, and the 
     illegal exploitation of natural resources on a global scale. 
     Civil wars, conflicts over natural resources, and structural 
     violence in the Great Lakes have resulted in--
       (A) the death of approximately three million people through 
     direct and indirect causes of the war in the DRC since 1998;
       (B) the deaths of at least 800,000 people during the 1994 
     genocide in Rwanda;
       (C) the deaths of an estimated 300,000 people through 
     direct and indirect causes of the war in Burundi since 1993;
       (D) the deaths of thousands in Uganda;
       (E) the forced abduction, sexual servitude, and armed 
     recruitment of thousands of children;
       (F) the displacement of millions of Ugandan, Burundian, 
     Congolese, Rwandan, and Sudanese refugees;
       (G) the death and abduction of humanitarian aid workers 
     throughout the region; and
       (H) grave disruptions in the delivery of emergency 
     assistance and food aid to millions of civilians in northern 
     Uganda, eastern Congo, and Burundi dependent on such 
     assistance for survival.
       (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of the Congress 
     that the United States should--
       (1) exhaust all diplomatic means and utilize all foreign 
     policy instruments to help peacefully resolve conflicts in 
     the Great Lakes region by supporting both national and 
     regional political, economic, and social initiatives 
     conducive to fostering African-led peace, reconstruction, and 
     political and economic institutional and structural 
     transformation processes in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and the 
     Democratic Republic of Congo;
       (2) urge all rebel forces to stop the abduction of 
     children, urge all armed forces to stop the use of child 
     soldiers, and seek the release of all forcibly-held children;
       (3) make available technical assistance resources to seek, 
     track, and stop funding for all armed extremist paramilitary 
     and militarist rebel organizations from all sources and 
     condemn all governments and organizations who do assist such 
     groups;
       (4) monitor and support negotiations conducted by third-
     party institutions for an immediate end of armed actions 
     between: The LRA and the Ugandan Government; the RCD factions 
     and MLC and the government of Democratic Republic of the 
     Congo under the terms of the Lusaka Accords; the FDD and the 
     Burundian Government under the terms of the Arusha Accords;
       (5) explore the possibility of facilitating the creation of 
     mechanisms for an international monitoring team to enforce 
     cease-fires as the first step in the process toward a 
     permanent peace in the region;
       (6) continue supporting the Sudan Peace Process, the 
     Danforth Initiative, the Lusaka Accords, and the Arusha 
     Accords which includes peace talks, donor coordination, 
     regional support, civilian protection and monitoring, and 
     cease-fire verification;
       (7) make available sufficient resources to meet the 
     immediate relief needs of the towns and cities in the Great 
     Lakes region supporting large displaced populations, 
     including food, clean water, medicine, shelter, and clothing;
       (8) make available increased resources for assistance to 
     released and returned abducted children and child soldiers in 
     the Great Lakes Region and ensure that amnesty is provided 
     when appropriate;
       (9) work with other donors and the Governments of Uganda, 
     Burundi, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo to 
     increase resources and technical support to both regional and 
     national combatant demobilization entities such as the Uganda 
     Amnesty Commission in Uganda and equivalent entities in 
     Burundi, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo for the 
     increased demobilization of rebel combatants;
       (10) examine ways in which development assistance (DA) can 
     help those living in protective villages in northern Uganda, 
     eastern Congo, and other demilitarized areas in Rwanda and 
     Burundi to return to and cultivate farmland;
       (11) condition military assistance to any nation which acts 
     to destabilize the DRC by violating international agreements 
     regarding sustained troop withdrawals and respect for the 
     territorial integrity of the DRC; and
       (12) direct the Secretary of State to appoint a special 
     envoy to the Great Lakes region to oversee cross-cutting 
     security and economic policies in the region.
       (c) Reports to Congress.--Not later than 180 days after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act, and not later than April 1 
     of each subsequent year, the Secretary should submit to the 
     appropriate congressional committees a report on the 
     comprehensive actions taken by the United States in promoting 
     peaceful and immediate solutions to the internal and intra-
     regional conflicts in the Great Lakes region, including 
     taking steps to bring an end to the illegal exploitation and 
     international trade of natural resources from the Democratic 
     Republic of Congo; supporting bilateral and multilateral 
     peace keeping initiatives; the promotion of regional economic 
     integration; the promotion of broad based democratic 
     political processes based on the rule of law; the promotion 
     of women and other previously disadvantaged communities as 
     equal political and economic stakeholders in societies; and 
     humanitarian assistance efforts in the region, including 
     efforts to advance each area addressed in subsection (a).

                       Subtitle B--Other Matters

     SEC. 721. SENSE OF CONGRESS RELATING TO EAST TIMOR, JUSTICE, 
                   AND REHABILITATION.

       The Congress--
       (1) recalls that the United Nations International 
     Commission of Inquiry concluded in January 2000 that ``the 
     Indonesian Army was responsible for the intimidation, terror, 
     killings and other acts of violence'' during East Timor's 
     vote for independence in 1999;
       (2) reiterates that justice for crimes against humanity and 
     war crimes committed in East Timor during the vote for 
     independence in 1999 is crucial for peace, reconciliation, 
     and the ongoing nation-building process in East Timor and 
     Indonesia;
       (3) finds that the ad hoc Human Rights Court on East Timor 
     established by the Indonesian Government in 2001 has 
     inadequately brought to justice the perpetrators of these 
     crimes as eleven of fourteen defendants have been acquitted 
     as a result of poor indictments and the absence of an 
     adequate witness protection program, and four of the five 
     sentences imposed have been less than the minimum allowed 
     under the Indonesian Human Rights Law;
       (4) supports the work of the Joint United Nations-East 
     Timor Serious Crimes Unit (SCU), which filed indictments 
     against high-ranking Indonesian officers who were allegedly 
     involved in the crimes, including Gen. Wiranto, Maj. Gen. 
     Kiki Syahnakri, Maj. Gen. Zacky Anwar Makarim, Maj. Gen. Adam 
     Damiri, Col. Suratman, Col. Noer Muis, Col. Yayat Sudrajat 
     and former Governor Abilio Soares, and expresses its strong 
     disappointment that the Indonesian Government has stated its 
     intention to ignore the indictments;
       (5) calls on the State Department and the United States 
     Mission to the United Nations to push for a comprehensive 
     United Nations review of the Indonesian ad hoc Human Rights 
     Court on East Timor, including a review of the conduct of 
     trials, the indictment strategy by the prosecutors and its 
     adherence to the international standards, and urges the 
     State Department to consider alternative mechanisms of 
     justice for East Timor, including the establishment of an 
     ad hoc international tribunal; and

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       (6) urges the Indonesian Government to fully cooperate with 
     the joint United Nations-East Timor Serious Crimes Unit (SCU) 
     and encourages the United States to urge the Indonesian 
     Government to fully cooperate with the SCU.

     SEC. 722. SENSE OF CONGRESS CONCERNING HUMAN RIGHTS AND 
                   JUSTICE IN INDONESIA.

       The Congress--
       (1) notes with grave concern that members of the Indonesian 
     security forces, particularly the Army Special Forces 
     (Kopassus) and the Police Mobile Brigade (Brimob), continue 
     to commit many serious human rights violations, including 
     extrajudicial killings, torture, rape, and arbitrary 
     detention, particularly in areas of conflict such as Aceh, 
     Papua, the Moluccas, and Central Sulawesi;
       (2) notes with grave concern that the Government of 
     Indonesia largely fails to hold soldiers and police 
     accountable for extrajudicial killings and other serious 
     human rights abuses, both past and present;
       (3) condemns the intimidation and harassment of human 
     rights and civil society organizations and activists by 
     members of Indonesian security forces and by military-backed 
     militia groups, particularly in Aceh and Papua;
       (4) notes with concern the Indonesian military's resistance 
     to civilian control and oversight, its lack of budgetary 
     transparency, and its continuing emphasis on internal 
     security within Indonesia;
       (5) urges the Indonesian government and military to provide 
     full, active, and unfettered cooperation with the 
     investigation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the 
     United States Department of Justice into the August 31, 2002 
     attack near Timika, Papua, which killed three people 
     (including two Americans, Rick Spier and Ted Burgon), and 
     injured 12 others, and which appears likely to have been 
     perpetrated at least in part by members of the Indonesian 
     military;
       (6) commends the December 2002 signing of the Framework 
     Agreement on Cessation of Hostilities in Aceh, but condemns 
     the recent outbreaks of violence and militia activity that 
     appear calculated to subvert that cease-fire agreement;
       (7) notes with grave concern the continued detention of 
     Muhammad Nazar, and the fact that those responsible for the 
     murders of other prominent members of civil society in Aceh, 
     such as Jafar Siddiq Hamzah, Sukardi, Sulaiman Ahmad, Tengku 
     Safwan Idris, Nashiruddin Daud, and Zaini Sulaiman, still 
     have not been apprehended, prosecuted, or punished;
       (8) commends the ``Zone of Peace'' initiative in Papua, 
     which has brought together civic, religious, governmental, 
     and police representatives to discuss productive means of 
     avoiding conflict, but expresses concern at the refusal of 
     the Indonesian military to participate in that effort; and
       (9) encourages the Government of Indonesia to expedite the 
     reunification of separated East Timorese children with their 
     families, and to hold legally accountable those individuals 
     and organizations responsible for taking those children and 
     for obstructing reunification efforts.

     SEC. 723. AMENDMENT TO THE INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM 
                   ACT OF 1998.

       Section 207(a) of the International Religious Freedom Act 
     of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6435(a)) is amended by inserting ``and for 
     each subsequent fiscal year'' after ``2003''.

     SEC. 724. SENSE OF CONGRESS WITH RESPECT TO HUMAN RIGHTS IN 
                   CENTRAL ASIA.

       (a) Findings.--The Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) The Central Asian nations of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, 
     Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan are providing the 
     United States with assistance in the war in Afghanistan, from 
     military basing and overflight rights to the facilitation of 
     humanitarian relief.
       (2) In turn, the United States victory over the Taliban in 
     Afghanistan provides important benefits to the Central Asian 
     nations by removing a regime that threatened their security 
     and by significantly weakening the Islamic Movement of 
     Uzbekistan, a terrorist organization that had previously 
     staged armed raids from Afghanistan into the region.
       (3) The United States has consistently urged the nations of 
     Central Asia to open their political systems and economies 
     and to respect human rights, both before and since the 
     attacks of September 11, 2001.
       (4) Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and 
     Uzbekistan are members of the United Nations and the 
     Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), 
     both of which confer a range of obligations with respect to 
     human rights on their members.
       (5) While the United States recognizes marked differences 
     among the social structures and commitments to democratic and 
     economic reform of the Central Asian nations, the United 
     States notes nevertheless, according to the State Department 
     Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, that all five 
     governments of such nations, to differing degrees, restrict 
     freedom of speech and association, restrict or ban the 
     activities of human rights organizations and other 
     nongovernmental organizations, harass or prohibit independent 
     media, imprison political opponents, practice arbitrary 
     detention and arrest, and engage in torture and extrajudicial 
     executions.
       (6) By continuing to suppress human rights and to deny 
     citizens peaceful, democratic means of expressing their 
     convictions, the nations of Central Asia risk fueling popular 
     support for violent and extremist movements, thus undermining 
     the goals of the war on terrorism.
       (7) President George W. Bush has made the defense of human 
     dignity, the rule of law, limits on the power of the state, 
     respect for women and private property, free speech, equal 
     justice, religious tolerance strategic goals of United States 
     foreign policy in the Islamic world, arguing that ``a 
     truly strong nation will permit legal avenues of dissent 
     for all groups that pursue their aspirations without 
     violence''.
       (8) Congress has expressed its desire to see deeper reform 
     in Central Asia in past resolutions and other legislation, 
     most recently conditioning assistance to Uzbekistan and 
     Kazakhstan on their progress in meeting commitments to the 
     United States on human rights and democracy.
       (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of the Congress 
     that--
       (1) the governments of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, 
     Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan should accelerate democratic 
     reforms and fulfill their human rights obligations, 
     including, where appropriate, by--
       (A) releasing from prison anyone jailed for peaceful 
     political activism or the nonviolent expression of their 
     political or religious beliefs;
       (B) fully investigating any credible allegations of torture 
     and prosecuting those responsible;
       (C) permitting the free and unfettered functioning of 
     independent media outlets, independent political parties, and 
     nongovernmental organizations, including by easing 
     registration processes;
       (D) permitting the free exercise of religious beliefs and 
     ceasing the persecution of members of religious groups and 
     denominations that do not engage in violence or political 
     change through violence;
       (E) holding free, competitive, and fair elections; and
       (F) making publicly available documentation of their 
     revenues and punishing those engaged in official corruption;
       (2) the President, the Secretary of State, and the 
     Secretary of Defense should--
       (A) continue to raise at the highest levels with the 
     governments of the nations of Central Asia specific cases of 
     political and religious persecution, and to urge greater 
     respect for human rights and democratic freedoms at every 
     diplomatic opportunity;
       (B) take progress in meeting the goals specified in 
     paragraph (1) into account when determining the scope and 
     nature of United States diplomatic and military relations and 
     assistance with each of such governments;
       (C) ensure that the provisions of foreign operations 
     appropriations Acts are fully implemented to ensure that no 
     United States assistance benefits security forces in Central 
     Asia that are implicated in violations of human rights;
       (D) press the Government of Turkmenistan to implement the 
     helpful recommendations contained in the 2003 resolution on 
     Turkmenistan of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights 
     and the so-called ``Moscow Mechanism'' Report of the 
     Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), 
     respect the right of all prisoners to due process and a fair 
     trial and release democratic activists and their family 
     members from prison;
       (E) urge the Government of Russia not to extradite to 
     Turkmenistan members of the political opposition of 
     Turkmenistan;
       (F) work with the Government of Kazakhstan to create a 
     political climate free of intimidation and harassment, 
     including releasing political prisoners and permitting the 
     return of political exiles, and to reduce official 
     corruption, including by urging the Government of Kazakhstan 
     to cooperate with the ongoing United States Department of 
     Justice investigation;
       (G) support through United States assistance programs 
     individuals, nongovernmental organizations, and media outlets 
     in Central Asia working to build more open societies, to 
     support the victims of human rights abuses, and to expose 
     official corruption; and
       (H) press the Government of Uzbekistan to implement fully 
     the recommendations made to the Government of Uzbekistan by 
     the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on Torture; and
       (3) increased levels of United States assistance to the 
     governments of the nations of Central Asia made possible by 
     their cooperation in the war in Afghanistan can be sustained 
     only if there is substantial and continuing progress toward 
     meeting the goals specified in paragraph (1).

     SEC. 725. TECHNICAL CORRECTION TO AUTHORIZATION OF 
                   APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2003 FOR CENTER 
                   FOR CULTURAL AND TECHNICAL INTERCHANGE BETWEEN 
                   EAST AND WEST.

       Section 112(3) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, 
     Fiscal Year 2003 (116 Stat. 1358; Public Law 107-228) is 
     amended by striking ``$15,000,000'' and inserting 
     ``$18,000,000''.

     SEC. 726. UNDER SECRETARY OF COMMERCE FOR INDUSTRY AND 
                   SECURITY.

       (a) Under Secretary.--There shall be in the Department of 
     Commerce an Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and 
     Security who shall serve as the head of the Bureau of 
     Industry and Security and perform such duties as the 
     Secretary of Commerce shall prescribe. The Under Secretary of 
     Commerce for Industry and Security shall be appointed by the 
     President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
       (b) Incumbent.--The individual serving on the date of the 
     enactment of this Act as the Under Secretary of Commerce for 
     Export Administration shall serve as the Under Secretary of 
     Commerce for Industry and Security until such time as a 
     successor is appointed under subsection (a).
       (c) Compensation.--Section 5314 of title 5, United States 
     Code, is amended by striking ``Under Secretary of Commerce 
     for Export Administration'' and inserting ``Under Secretary 
     of Commerce for Industry and Security''.
       (d) Conforming Amendments.--Section 15(a) of the Export 
     Administration Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. App. 2414(a)) is 
     amended--
       (1) by striking the first sentence; and
       (2) in the second sentence, by striking ``in carrying out 
     such functions'' and inserting ``of Commerce for Industry and 
     Security in carrying out the functions of the Under 
     Secretary''.

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     SEC. 727. CONCERNING THE SPREAD OF WEAPONS OF MASS 
                   DESTRUCTION.

       (a) Findings.--The Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction 
     presents a direct threat to the stability, security, and 
     safety of nations around the globe.
       (2) Combatting the spread of such weapons is a 
     responsibility borne by all nations.
       (3) United States efforts to stop the further spread of 
     these weapons can be further enhanced by cooperative efforts 
     between the United States and the European Union.
       (4) There are many different components in this effort that 
     require a comprehensive approach, immediate attention, and 
     vigorous action, including the ``10+10 over 10 Initiative'' 
     agreed to by the United States and many members of the 
     European Union.
       (5) Stopping the spread of weapons of mass destruction is 
     made more difficult when states willingly participate in, or 
     contribute to, their development or their sale or transfer to 
     other nations.
       (6) Stopping the spread of weapons of mass destruction is 
     made more difficult when private companies willingly 
     participate in, or contribute to, their development or their 
     sale or transfer to other nations.
       (7) United States security and safety is undermined when 
     companies engage in such commerce.
       (b) Sense of Congress.--The Congress call on the European 
     Union to--
       (1) develop an aggressive and robust regulatory system 
     designed to--
       (A) investigate allegations of companies contributing to 
     the development of weapons of mass destruction or their sale 
     or transfer to other nations;
       (B) isolate and comdemn companies found to participate in, 
     or contribute to, the development of such weapons or their 
     sale or transfer to other nations; and
       (C) develop a punitive response designed to punish such 
     companies, thereby preventing further actions on their part 
     and discouraging other companies from engaging in such 
     actions;
       (2) condemn, by name, states known to be contributing to 
     the development or spread of weapons of mass destruction; and
       (3) develop appropriate punitive measures designed to 
     discourage further actions.

     SEC. 728. INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY 
                   INFORMATION PROGRAM.

       (a) In General.--The Department of State shall provide to 
     other countries, as appropriate, the scientific evidence on 
     the benefits, safety, and potential uses of agricultural 
     biotechnology.
       (b) Specific Objectives.--The Secretary of State shall--
       (1) chair an interagency task force comprised of 
     representatives of the Department of Commerce, the Department 
     of Agriculture, and the United States Agency for 
     International Development to develop and disseminate accurate 
     written scientific information on the potential benefits of 
     agricultural biotechnology for human and animal nutrition, 
     the environment, food and feed production, agricultural 
     sustainability, and bioenergy development;
       (2) coordinate the development and dissemination of 
     scientifically-based facts regarding, the safety and 
     regulation of biotechnology-derived food and feed 
     products;
       (3) instruct the United States Agency for International 
     Development (USAID) to develop a program to demonstrate the 
     potential benefits of agricultural biotechnology to develop 
     products that can be grown under local soil and climate 
     conditions and better meet the health and nutritional needs 
     of local populations in the developing world; and
       (4) ensure that personnel undertaking these activities are 
     knowledgeable of, and disseminate information on, the United 
     States regulatory safeguards that assure food and 
     environmental safety.

     SEC. 729. REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT BURDENSHARING.

       It is the sense of the Congress that--
       (1) the Secretary of State should actively encourage the 
     international community to accept refugees for resettlement 
     on a more equitable basis;
       (2) the Secretary of State should raise the issue of 
     refugee resettlement burdensharing at the United Nations and 
     other multilateral and bilateral meetings;
       (3) developed countries should be encouraged to increase 
     the percentage of the world's refugees accepted for 
     resettlement; and
       (4) the Secretary of State should encourage developing 
     stable countries in regions with refugee flows to accept for 
     resettlement as many of their neighbors as possible.

     SEC. 730. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON CLIMATE CHANGE.

       (a) Findings.--The Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) Evidence continues to build that increases in 
     atmospheric concentrations of manmade greenhouse gases are 
     contributing to global climate change.
       (2) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (in this 
     section referred to as the ``IPCC'') has concluded that 
     ``there is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming 
     observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human 
     activities'' and that the Earth's average temperature can be 
     expected to rise between 2.5 and 10.4 degrees Fahrenheit in 
     this century.
       (3) The National Academy of Sciences confirmed the findings 
     of the IPCC, stating that ``the IPCC's conclusion that most 
     of the observed warming of the last 50 years is likely to 
     have been due to the increase of greenhouse gas 
     concentrations accurately reflects the current thinking of 
     the scientific community on this issue'' and that ``there is 
     general agreement that the observed warming is real and 
     particularly strong within the past twenty years''. The 
     National Academy of Sciences also noted that ``because there 
     is considerable uncertainty in current understanding of how 
     the climate system varies naturally and reacts to emissions 
     of greenhouse gases and aerosols, current estimates of the 
     magnitude of future warming should be regarded as tentative 
     and subject to future adjustments upward or downward''.
       (4) The IPCC has stated that in the last 40 years, the 
     global average sea level has risen, ocean heat content has 
     increased, and snow cover and ice extent have decreased, 
     which threatens to inundate low-lying island nations and 
     coastal regions throughout the world.
       (5) In October 2000, a report of the United States 
     interagency Global Change Research Program found that global 
     climate change may harm the United States by altering crop 
     yields, accelerating sea-level rise, and increasing the 
     spread of tropical infectious diseases.
       (6) In 1992, the United States ratified the United Nations 
     Framework Convention on Climate Change (in this section 
     referred to as the ``UNFCCC''), the ultimate objective of 
     which is the ``stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations 
     in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous 
     anthropogenic interference with the climate system. Such a 
     level should be achieved within a time-frame sufficient to 
     allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, to 
     ensure that food production is not threatened and to enable 
     economic development to proceed in a sustainable manner''.
       (7) The UNFCCC stated in part that the Parties to the 
     UNFCCC are to implement policies ``with the aim of returning 
     . . . to their 1990 levels anthropogenic emissions of carbon 
     dioxide and other greenhouse gases'' under the principle that 
     ``policies and measures . . . should be appropriate for the 
     specific conditions of each Party and should be integrated 
     with national development programmes, taking into account 
     that economic development is essential for adopting measures 
     to address climate change''.
       (8) There is a shared international responsibility to 
     address this problem, as industrial nations are the largest 
     historic and current emitters of greenhouse gases and 
     developing nations' emissions will significantly increase in 
     the future.
       (9) The UNFCCC further stated that ``developed country 
     Parties should take the lead in combating climate change and 
     the adverse effects thereof'', as these nations are the 
     largest historic and current emitters of greenhouse gases. 
     The UNFCCC also stated that ``steps required to understand 
     and address climate change will be environmentally, socially 
     and economically most effective if they are based on relevant 
     scientific, technical and economic considerations and 
     continually re-evaluated in the light of new findings in 
     these areas''.
       (10) Any future, binding treaty on climate change must not 
     result in serious harm to the United States economy, and 
     should not cause the United States to abandon its shared 
     responsibility to help reduce the risks of climate change and 
     its impacts. Future international efforts in this regard 
     should focus on recognizing the equitable responsibilities 
     for addressing climate change by all nations, including 
     commitments by the largest developing country emitters in a 
     future, binding climate change treaty.
       (11) While the United States has elected against becoming a 
     party to the Kyoto Protocol to the UNFCCC at this time, it is 
     the position of the United States that it will not interfere 
     with the plans of any nation that chooses to ratify and 
     implement the Kyoto Protocol.
       (12) United States businesses need to know how governments 
     worldwide will address the risks of climate change. By 
     committing themselves to reducing their greenhouse gas 
     emissions, leading companies in the United States and 
     worldwide are doing more than addressing the problem of 
     climate change--they are also improving their competitive 
     positioning. More than 30 major corporations, most with 
     operations in the United States, have specifically committed 
     themselves to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions.
       (13) The United States benefits from investments in the 
     research, development, and deployment of a range of clean 
     energy and efficiency technologies that can reduce the risks 
     of climate change and its impacts and that can make the 
     United States economy more productive, bolster energy 
     security, create jobs, and protect the environment.
       (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of the Congress 
     that the United States should demonstrate international 
     leadership and responsibility in reducing the health, 
     environmental, and economic risks posed by climate change 
     by--
       (1) taking responsible action to ensure significant and 
     meaningful reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases from 
     all sectors;
       (2) creating flexible international and domestic 
     mechanisms, including joint implementation, technology 
     deployment, tradable credits for emissions reductions, and 
     carbon sequestration projects that will reduce, avoid, and 
     sequester greenhouse gas emissions;
       (3) participating in international negotiations, including 
     putting forth a proposal to the Conference of the Parties to 
     the UNFCCC, with the objective of securing United States 
     participation in a future binding treaty on climate change in 
     a manner that protects the economic interests of the United 
     States, is consistent with the environmental objectives of 
     the UNFCCC, and recognizes the shared international 
     responsibility for addressing climate change, including 
     developing country participation; and
       (4) establishing a bipartisan observer group of Members of 
     the House of Representatives, designated by the chairman and 
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     the Committee on International Relations of the House of 
     Representatives, to monitor any international negotiations on 
     climate change.

     SEC. 731. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING MIGRATION ISSUES 
                   BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO.

       (a) Findings.--The Congress finds as follows:
       (1) During President Bush's first meeting with President 
     Fox in Guanajuato, Mexico, the Presidents stated in the Joint 
     Communique of February 16, 2001 that ``we are instructing our 
     Governments to engage, at the earliest opportunity, in formal 
     high level negotiations aimed at achieving short and long-
     term agreements that will allow us to constructively address 
     migration and labor issues between our two countries.''.
       (2) During President Fox's official visit to Washington, 
     D.C., the Joint Statement of September 6, 2001, summarized 
     the meeting as follows: ``The Presidents reviewed the 
     progress made by our joint working group on migration chaired 
     by Secretaries Powell, CastaZeda, and Creel and Attorney 
     General Ashcroft and noted this represented the most fruitful 
     and frank dialogue we have ever had on a subject so important 
     to both nations. They praised implementation of the border 
     safety initiative, and recognized that migration-related 
     issues are deeply felt by our publics and vital to our 
     prosperity, well-being, and the kind of societies we want to 
     build. They renewed their commitment to forging new and 
     realistic approaches to migration to ensure it is safe, 
     orderly, legal and dignified, and agreed on the framework 
     within which this ongoing effort is based. This includes: 
     matching willing workers with willing employers; serving the 
     social and economic needs of both countries; respecting the 
     human dignity of all migrants, regardless of their status; 
     recognizing the contribution migrants make to enriching both 
     societies; shared responsibility for ensuring migration takes 
     place through safe and legal channels. Both stressed their 
     commitment to continue our discussions, instructing the high-
     level working group to reach mutually satisfactory results on 
     border safety, a temporary worker program and the status of 
     undocumented Mexicans in the United States. They requested 
     that the working group provide them proposals with respect to 
     these issues as soon as possible. The Presidents recognized 
     that this is an extraordinarily challenging area of public 
     policy, and that it is critical to address the issue in a 
     timely manner and with appropriate thoroughness and depth.''.
       (3) On September 7, 2001, during President Fox's historic 
     State Visit to Washington, the United States and Mexico 
     issued a joint statement instructing our cabinet-level 
     working group to provide us with specific proposals to forge 
     a new and realistic framework that will ensure a safe, legal, 
     orderly, and dignified migration flow between our countries. 
     We have today agreed that our Cabinet level migration group 
     should continue the work we charged it with in Guanajuato and 
     Washington.
       (4) When the Presidents met in Monterrey, Mexico, the 
     Presidents stated in a Joint Statement on March 22, 2002, as 
     follows: ``Slightly more than one year ago, in Guanajuato, we 
     talked about migration as one of the major ties that join our 
     societies. We launched then the frankest and most productive 
     dialogue our countries have ever had on this important and 
     challenging subject. Those talks have continued over the past 
     year, and have yielded a clearer assessment of the scope and 
     nature of this issue. This bond between our nations can 
     render countless benefits to our respective economies and 
     families.
       (5) Over the past year, important progress has been made to 
     enhance migrant safety and particularly in saving lives by 
     discouraging and reducing illegal crossings in dangerous 
     terrain.
       (6) At the conclusion of the Mexico-United States 
     Binational Commission (BNC) meeting in Mexico City in 
     November 2002, Secretary of State Powell's press conference 
     was summarized by the State Department as follows: The BNC's 
     migration working group ``affirmed our strong commitment to 
     advancing our bilateral migration agenda,'' he stressed, 
     adding that ``there should be no doubt in anyone's mind that 
     this is a priority for President Bush, just as it is a 
     priority for [Mexican] President [Vicente] Fox.''
       (7) Secretary Powell said no schedule had been established 
     for a migration accord, but he confirmed that the United 
     States and Mexico want to come up with a series of migration 
     initiatives over the course of the next six months to a year.
       (8) Mexico's state-run oil monopoly, Petroleos Mexicanos 
     (PEMEX), is inefficient, plagued by corruption, and in need 
     of substantial reform and private investment in order to 
     provide sufficient petroleum products to Mexico and the 
     United States to fuel future economic growth which can help 
     curb illegal migration into the United States.
       (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of the Congress 
     that--
       (1) that the United States and Mexico should as soon as is 
     practicable commence negotiations in an attempt to reach a 
     migration accord that is as comprehensive as possible and 
     which addresses the key issues of concern for both nations;
       (2) that any accord on migration issues between the United 
     States and Mexico should also include an accord to open 
     Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) to investment by U.S. oil 
     companies and specific steps to reform PEMEX's operations to 
     make them more transparent and efficient; and
       (3) that as part of any migration agreement between the 
     United States and Mexico, the issues of the extradition of 
     violent criminals and law enforcement cooperation between the 
     two nations be addressed.

     SEC. 732. SENSE OF CONGRESS CONCERNING UNITED STATES 
                   ASSISTANCE TO PALESTINIAN REFUGEES.

       The Congress--
       (1) recognizes the importance of United States humanitarian 
     assistance to Palestinian refugees as an essential component 
     to the peace process in the Middle East;
       (2) acknowledges the hardships endured by many innocent 
     Palestinian refugees in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and in 
     other neighboring countries;
       (3) notes that the United Nations High Commission for 
     Refugees (UNHCR) is the international body that seeks to find 
     ``lasting solutions'' to the plight of refugees throughout 
     the world, with the sole exception of the Palestinians, for 
     whose exclusive benefit a special agency, the United Nations 
     Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), was established in 1950 and 
     which makes no effort to permanently resettle Palestinian 
     refugees, even those who reside under the jurisdiction of the 
     Palestinian Authority, in order to ensure the perpetuation of 
     the problem of Palestinian refugees;
       (4) recognizes that the United States has been the world's 
     leading donor to UNRWA, having provided over $2,500,000,000 
     to UNRWA since 1950, including the provision of $110,000,000, 
     in fiscal year 2002, and that such organization has provided 
     important humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian people;
       (5) notes that the United States contribution to UNRWA is 
     nearly 10 times that of the entire Arab world, and calls on 
     Arab states to assume a greater share of the burden for 
     financing UNWRA;
       (6) expresses its outrage over credible reports that UNRWA 
     facilities have been used for terrorist training and bases 
     for terrorist operations, with little attempt by the UNRWA to 
     stop or oppose such attacks or alert relevant law enforcement 
     authorities about such terrorist activities;
       (7) expresses deep concern over the textbooks and 
     educational materials used in the UNRWA educational system 
     that promote anti-Semitism, denial of the existence and the 
     right to exist of the state of Israel, and exacerbate 
     stereotypes and tensions between the Palestinians and 
     Israelis;
       (8) strongly urges the Secretary General of the United 
     Nations to immediately take steps to comprehensively reform 
     the UNRWA so that it actively works to oppose terrorist 
     attacks and actively works to promote reconciliation and 
     understanding between the Israelis and Palestinians;
       (9) strongly urges UNRWA to meet the requirements, in 
     letter and spirit, of section 301(c) of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961, including by comprehensively ensuring 
     that no UNRWA assistance is rendered to anyone who has been 
     involved with terrorism at any time and that all UNRWA 
     beneficiaries be informed at the earliest possible time, and 
     at regular intervals thereafter, that anyone involved with 
     terrorism thereafter will be ineligible for UNRWA benefits;
       (10) strongly urges the Secretary of State to make UNRWA 
     reforms a priority at the United Nations by actively 
     campaigning within the United Nations to support such 
     reforms, including comprehensive and independently verifiable 
     audits of UNRWA activities and educational reform that would 
     remove from the curriculum all textbooks and educational 
     materials that promote hatred of Jews and Israel and denial 
     of Israel's right to exist and replace them with teaching 
     materials that promote Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation and 
     mutual understanding; and
       (11) notes the General Accounting Office (GAO) audit 
     required by section 580 of the FY 2003 Foreign Operations 
     Appropriations Act (Public Law 108-7), and strongly 
     encourages the GAO to conduct, as part of this audit, an 
     investigation and inspection of all recent United States 
     assistance to UNRWA to ensure that taxpayer funds are being 
     spent effectively and are not directly or indirectly 
     supporting terrorism, anti-Semitic or anti-Jewish teachings, 
     or the glorification or incitement of violence.

     SEC. 733. UNITED STATES POLICY ON WORLD BANK GROUP LOANS TO 
                   IRAN.

       (a) United States Policy.--The Secretary of State (or a 
     designee), in consultation with the Secretary of the 
     Treasury, shall communicate directly with the governments of 
     countries represented on the decision-making boards and 
     councils of the international financial institutions of the 
     World Bank Group and consistently convey the strong 
     opposition of the United States Government to any further 
     activity in Iran by the international financial institutions 
     of the World Bank Group.
       (b) Reports.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act and one year thereafter, the Secretary 
     of State shall submit a report on the efforts of the 
     Secretary to carry out subsection (a) to the chairman and 
     ranking minority member of the Committee on International 
     Relations of the House of Representatives and the Committee 
     on Foreign Relations of the Senate.
       (c) World Bank Group Defined.--As used in this section, the 
     term ``World Bank Group'' means the International Bank for 
     Reconstruction and Development, the International Development 
     Association, the International Financial Corporation, and the 
     Multilateral Investment Guaranty Agency.

     SEC. 734. SENSE OF CONGRESS RELATING TO SOVIET NUCLEAR TESTS 
                   IN KAZAKHSTAN.

       (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
       (1) In 1991, immediately after achieving independence, 
     Kazakhstan closed and sealed the world's second largest 
     nuclear test site in Semipalatinsk which had been inherited 
     from the former Soviet Union and at which more than 500 
     nuclear tests had been conducted from 1949 to 1991.
       (2) The cumulative power of explosions from those tests, 
     conducted above ground, on the ground, and underground is 
     believed to be equal to the power of 20,000 explosions of the 
     type of bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.

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       (3) More than 1,500,000 people in Kazakhstan suffered 
     because of decades of Soviet nuclear weapons testing in the 
     region.
       (4) A horrifying array of disease will continue to destroy 
     the lives of hundreds of thousands and their descendants for 
     many generations to come as a result of these tests.
       (5) Since its independence, Kazakhstan has constructed a 
     stable and peaceful state, voluntarily disarmed the world's 
     fourth largest nuclear arsenal, joined the Strategic Arms 
     Reduction Treaty (START), and became an example of 
     responsible nonproliferation of such weapons.
       (6) Kazakhstan is also doing its best to help those who 
     were exposed to the horrific nuclear experiments of the 20th 
     century but it faces daunting challenges.
       (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that 
     the Secretary of State should work to establish a joint 
     working group with the Government of Kazakhstan to assist in 
     assessing the environmental damage and health effects caused 
     by Soviet nuclear testing in Semipalatinsk.

     SEC. 735. SENSE OF CONGRESS RELATING TO VIOLENCE AGAINST 
                   WOMEN.

       The Congress--
       (1) recalls that Article 4 of the United Nations 
     Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (20 
     December 1993) outlines that states should condemn violence 
     against women and should not invoke any custom, tradition, or 
     religious consideration to avoid their obligations with 
     respect to its elimination;
       (2) recalls that Chapter 4, Section 125, of the Beijing 
     Declaration and Platform for Action, Fourth World Conference 
     on Women (15 September 1995) states that governments condemn 
     violence against women and refrain from invoking any custom, 
     tradition, or religious consideration to avoid their 
     obligations with respect to its elimination as set out in the 
     Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women;
       (3) recalls that the United States has supported both the 
     United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of Violence and 
     the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action; and
       (4) reinforces the position of the United States that the 
     United States condemns violence against women and refrains 
     from invoking any custom, tradition, or religious 
     consideration to avoid this nation's obligations with respect 
     to its elimination as set out in the Declaration on the 
     Elimination of Violence against Women.

  DIVISION B--DEFENSE TRADE AND SECURITY ASSISTANCE REFORM ACT OF 2003

                      TITLE X--GENERAL PROVISIONS

     SEC. 1001. SHORT TITLE.

       This division may be cited as the ``Defense Trade and 
     Security Assistance Reform Act of 2003''.

     SEC. 1002. DEFINITIONS.

       Except as otherwise provided, in this division:
       (1) Defense articles.--The term ``defense articles'' has 
     the meaning given the term in section 47(7)(A) of the Arms 
     Export Control Act (as amended by section 1107(d) of this 
     Act).
       (2) Defense services.--The term ``defense services'' has 
     the meaning given the term in section 47(7)(B) of the Arms 
     Export Control Act (as amended by section 1107(d) of this 
     Act).
       (3) Dual use.--The term ``dual use'' means, with respect to 
     goods or technology, those goods or technology that are 
     specifically designed or developed for civil purposes but 
     which also may be used or deployed in a military mode.
       (4) Export administration regulations.--The term ``Export 
     Administration Regulations'' means those regulations 
     contained in sections 730-774 of title 15, Code of Federal 
     Regulations (or successor regulations).
       (5) Good.--The term ``good'' has the meaning given the term 
     in section 16(3) of the Export Administration Act of 1979 (50 
     U.S.C. App. 2415(3)).
       (6) International traffic in arms regulations.--The term 
     ``International Traffic in Arms Regulations'' means those 
     regulations contained in sections 120-130 of title 22, Code 
     of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations).
       (7) Missile technology control regime; mtcr.--The term 
     ``Missile Technology Control Regime'' or ``MTCR'' has the 
     meaning given the term in section 11B(c)(2) of the Export 
     Administration Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. App. 2401b(c)(2)).
       (8) Missile technology control regime annex; mtcr annex.--
     The term ``Missile Technology Control Regime Annex'' or 
     ``MTCR Annex'' has the meaning given the term in section 
     11B(c)(4) of the Export Administration Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. 
     App. 2401b(c)(4)).
       (9) Operation iraqi freedom.--The term ``Operation Iraqi 
     Freedom'' means operations of United States Armed Forces, the 
     armed forces of the United Kingdom, and the armed forces of 
     other coalition member countries initiated on or about March 
     19, 2003--
       (A) to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction;
       (B) to enforce United Nations Security Council Resolution 
     1441 (November 8, 2002) and other relevant Security Council 
     resolutions with respect to Iraq; and
       (C) to liberate the people of Iraq from the regime of 
     Saddam Hussein.
       (10) Technology.--The term ``technology'' has the meaning 
     given the term in section 16(4) of the Export Administration 
     Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. App. 2415(4)).

     SEC. 1003. REFERENCES TO ARMS EXPORT CONTROL ACT.

       Except as otherwise specifically provided, whenever in this 
     division an amendment is expressed in terms of an amendment 
     to a section or other provision, the reference shall be 
     considered to be made to that section or other provision of 
     the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2751 et seq.).

   TITLE XI--TERRORIST-RELATED PROHIBITIONS AND ENFORCEMENT MEASURES

     SEC. 1101. ELIGIBILITY PROVISIONS.

       (a) Ineligibility for Terrorist Related Transactions.--
     Section 3(c)(1) (22 U.S.C. 2753(c)(1)) is amended--
       (1) in each of subparagraphs (A) and (B), by striking ``or 
     any predecessor Act,'' and inserting ``, any predecessor Act, 
     or licensed or approved under section 38 of this Act, to 
     carry out a transaction with a country, the government of 
     which the Secretary of State has determined is a state 
     sponsor of international terrorism for purposes of section 
     6(j)(1) of the Export Administration Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. 
     App. 2405(j)(1)), or otherwise uses such defense articles or 
     defense services''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(C) In this section, the term `transaction' means the 
     taking of any action, directly or indirectly, by a foreign 
     country that would be a transaction prohibited by section 40 
     of this Act with respect to the United States Government and 
     United States persons.''.
       (b) Reporting Requirement.--Section 3(e) (22 U.S.C. 
     2753(e)) is amended by inserting after ``the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961,'' the following: ``regardless of 
     whether the article or service has been sold or otherwise 
     furnished by the United States Government or licensed under 
     section 38 of this Act,''.

     SEC. 1102. WEAPONS TRANSFERS TO FOREIGN PERSONS IN THE UNITED 
                   STATES.

       Section 38(a)(1) (22 U.S.C. 2778(a)(1)) is amended in the 
     first sentence by inserting after ``import and the export of 
     defense articles and defense services'' the following: ``, or 
     the transfer of such articles, other than firearms (or 
     ammunition, components, parts, accessories, or attachments 
     for firearms), and services within the United States to 
     foreign persons,''.

     SEC. 1103. COORDINATION OF LICENSE EXEMPTIONS WITH UNITED 
                   STATES LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES.

       (a) Sense of Congress.--In view of the historic 
     difficulties in the enforcement of the Arms Export Control 
     Act (22 U.S.C. 2751 et seq.) associated with violations 
     involving exports of defense articles and defense services 
     that have been exempted by regulation from the licensing 
     requirements of section 38 of such Act, it is the sense of 
     Congress that the establishment of new exemptions by 
     regulation should only be undertaken after careful 
     coordination with the appropriate United States law 
     enforcement agencies.
       (b) Amendment.--Section 38(b)(2) (22 U.S.C. 2778(b)(2)) is 
     amended by adding at the end the following new sentences: 
     ``In promulgating regulations under subsection (a)(1) in 
     accordance with the preceding sentence, any provision in such 
     regulations that permits the export of defense articles or 
     defense services without a license shall include a 
     determination by the Attorney General, in consultation with 
     the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Director of the 
     Federal Bureau of Investigation, that the compilation and 
     maintenance of sufficient documentation relating to the 
     export without a license of the articles or services is 
     ensured, notwithstanding the absence of a license, to 
     facilitate law enforcement efforts to detect, prevent, and 
     prosecute criminal violations of any provision of this 
     section, section 39, or section 40 of this Act, including the 
     efforts on the part of countries and factions engaged in 
     international terrorism to illicitly acquire defense articles 
     and defense services. No defense article or defense service 
     designated by the President under subsection (a)(1) may be 
     exported without a license pursuant to a regulation under 
     subsection (a)(1) that is promulgated on or after January 1, 
     2003, until 30 days after the date on which the President 
     provides notice of the proposed regulation to the Committee 
     on International Relations of the House of Representatives 
     and to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate in 
     accordance with the procedures applicable to reprogramming 
     notifications under section 634A(a) of the Foreign Assistance 
     Act of 1961, including a description of the criteria that 
     would be used to permit the export of the article or service 
     and any measures to facilitate law enforcement efforts 
     associated with the Attorney General's determination required 
     by the preceding sentence.''.

     SEC. 1104. MECHANISMS TO IDENTIFY PERSONS IN VIOLATION OF 
                   CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF LAW.

       Section 38(g)(1)(A) (22 U.S.C. 2778(g)(1)(A)) is amended--
       (1) in clause (iii)--
       (A) by striking ``or section 2339A'' and inserting ``, 
     section 2339A''; and
       (B) by inserting at the end before the comma the following: 
     ``, or section 2339C of such title (relating to financing 
     terrorism)'';
       (2) in clause (x), by striking ``or'' at the end;
       (3) in clause (xi), by striking the semicolon at the end 
     and inserting a comma; and
       (4) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(xii) subclause (I) or (II) of section 1956(c)(7)(B)(v) 
     of title 18, United States Code;
       ``(xiii) section 329 of the Uniting and Strengthening 
     America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept 
     and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001;
       ``(xiv) section 5332 of title 31, United States Code;
       ``(xv) section 1960 of title 18, United States Code;
       ``(xvi) section 175(b), 175b, 1993, 2339 of title 18, 
     United States Code;
       ``(xvii) section 2332a, 2332b, or 2332f of title 18, United 
     States Code; or
       ``(xviii) section 175 of title 18, United States Code;''.

     SEC. 1105. COMPREHENSIVE NATURE OF UNITED STATES ARMS 
                   EMBARGOES.

       (a) Findings; Sense of Congress.--
       (1) Findings.--Congress finds that--
       (A) governments to which the United States Government 
     prohibits by law or policy the

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     transfer of implements of war, including material, 
     components, parts, and other defense articles and defense 
     services (as defined in paragraphs (3) and (4) of section 47 
     of the Arms Export Control Act, respectively) continue to 
     seek to evade these embargoes through increasingly 
     sophisticated illegal acquisitions via the ``international 
     gray arms market'' and by seeking to exploit weaknesses in 
     the export control system of the United States and its 
     friends and allies; and
       (B) the strict and comprehensive application of arms 
     embargoes referred to in subparagraph (A) including those 
     embargoes established by the United Nations Security Council 
     is of fundamental importance to the security and foreign 
     policy interests of the United States.
       (2) Sense of congress.--It is the sense of Congress that 
     the United States Government should continue to provide a 
     leadership role internationally in ensuring the effectiveness 
     of arms embargoes referred to in paragraph (1).
       (b) Scope of Embargoes.--Section 38 (22 U.S.C. 2778) is 
     amended by adding at the end the following:
       ``(k) Whenever the United States maintains an arms embargo 
     pursuant to United States law, or through public notice by 
     the President or Secretary of State pursuant to the 
     authorities of this Act, no defense article or defense 
     service subject to sections 120-130 of title 22, Code of 
     Federal Regulations (commonly known as the `International 
     Traffic in Arms Regulations') and no dual use good or 
     technology subject to sections 730-774 of title 15, Code of 
     Federal Regulations (commonly known as the `Export 
     Administration Regulations') shall be sold or transferred to 
     the military, police, or intelligence services of the 
     embargoed government, including any associated governmental 
     agency, subdivision, entity, or other person acting on their 
     behalf, unless, at a minimum and without prejudice to any 
     additional requirements established in United States law or 
     regulation, the Secretary of State and the Secretary of 
     Defense have concurred in the sale or transfer through 
     issuance of a license.''.
       (c) Establishment of Controls.--The Secretary shall consult 
     with the Secretary of Commerce to ensure the establishment of 
     appropriate foreign policy and national security controls and 
     license requirements under the Export Administration 
     Regulations in order to ensure the effective implementation 
     of section 38(k) of the Arms Export Control Act, as added by 
     subsection (b).
       (d) Report.--Not later than 120 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the 
     appropriate congressional committees a report that describes 
     the actions taken to implement the requirements of subsection 
     (c).

     SEC. 1106. TRANSACTIONS WITH COUNTRIES SUPPORTING ACTS OF 
                   INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM.

       Section 40(l)(1) (22 U.S.C. 2780(l)(1)) is amended by 
     striking ``any item enumerated on the United States Munitions 
     List'' and inserting ``a defense article or defense service 
     (as defined in subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 47(7), 
     respectively), an item enumerated on the United States 
     Munitions List (as designated by the President pursuant to 
     section 38(a)), or any other activity for which a license or 
     other approval is required pursuant to the regulations 
     promulgated under subsection (a)(1)''.

     SEC. 1107. AMENDMENTS TO CONTROL OF ARMS EXPORTS AND IMPORTS.

       (a) Revision of Standard for Violation; Amount of 
     Penalties.--Section 38(c) (22 U.S.C. 2778(c)) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``willfully'' each place it appears and 
     inserting ``knowingly'';
       (2) by striking ``this section or section 39'' and 
     inserting ``this section, section 39, or section 40''; and
       (3) by striking ``$1,000,000'' and inserting ``$1,000,000 
     (in the case of a violation of this section or section 39), 
     $2,000,000 (in the case of a violation involving any country 
     covered by section 40), and $1,500,000 (in the case of a 
     violation involving any country other than a country covered 
     by section 40 that is subject by United States law or policy 
     to an arms embargo)''.
       (b) Civil Penalties.--Section 38(e) (22 U.S.C. 2778(e)) is 
     amended in the third sentence by striking ``under this 
     section may not exceed $500,000'' and inserting ``or any 
     other activities subject to control under this section, 
     section 39, or section 40, may not exceed $500,000 for each 
     violation of section 38 or section 39, $1,000,000 for each 
     violation involving any country covered by section 40, and 
     $750,000 for each violation relating to an arms embargo 
     (other than a violation covered by section 40)''.
       (c) Revision of Standard for Violation; Criminal Penalty; 
     Civil Penalties; Enforcement.--Section 40 (22 U.S.C. 2780) is 
     amended--
       (1) in subsection (j)--
       (A) by striking ``willfully'' and inserting ``knowingly''; 
     and
       (B) by striking ``$1,000,000'' and inserting 
     ``$2,000,000''; and
       (2) in subsection (k), by striking ``$500,000'' and 
     inserting ``$1,000,000''.
       (d) Definitions.--Section 47(7) (22 U.S.C. 2794(7)) is 
     amended to read as follows:
       ``(7)(A) `defense articles', with respect to exports 
     subject to sections 38, 39, and 40 of this Act, has the 
     meaning given such term in sections 120-130 of title 22, Code 
     of Federal Regulations (commonly known as the `International 
     Traffic in Arms Regulations'), as such regulations were in 
     effect on January 1, 2003, and includes such additional 
     articles as may be designated by the President under section 
     38(a)(1); and
       ``(B) `defense services', with respect to exports subject 
     to sections 38, 39, and 40 of this Act, has the meaning given 
     such term in sections 120-130 of title 22, Code of Federal 
     Regulations (commonly known as the `International Traffic in 
     Arms Regulations'), as such regulations were in effect on 
     January 1, 2003, and includes--
       ``(i) the provision of assistance (including aiding, 
     abetting, or training) to foreign persons; and
       ``(ii) such other activities as may be designated by the 
     President pursuant to section 38(a)(1).''.

     SEC. 1108. HIGH RISK EXPORTS AND END USE VERIFICATION.

       Section 38(g)(7) (22 U.S.C. 2778) is amended by adding at 
     the end the following new sentence: ``Such standards shall be 
     coordinated biennially with the Secretary of Homeland 
     Security, the Attorney General, the Director of the Federal 
     Bureau of Investigation, the Director of Central 
     Intelligence, and the heads of other Federal departments or 
     agencies, as appropriate.''.

     SEC. 1109. CONCURRENT JURISDICTION OF THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF 
                   INVESTIGATION.

       (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that, 
     in view of the responsibilities of the Federal Bureau of 
     Investigation for protecting the United States against 
     terrorist attack, foreign intelligence operations, high 
     technology crimes, and transnational criminal organizations 
     and enterprises, the Federal Bureau of Investigation should 
     be provided authority to investigate and enforce violations 
     of the Arms Export Control Act without adversely 
     affecting the existing authority of the Bureau of Customs 
     and Border Protection of the Department of Homeland 
     Security.
       (b) Copy of Registration.--Section 38(b)(1) (22 U.S.C. 
     2778(b)) is amended--
       (1) by redesignating the second subparagraph (B) as 
     subparagraph (C); and
       (2) in subparagraph (B)--
       (A) in the first sentence, by inserting ``and the Director 
     of the Federal Bureau of Investigation'' after ``Secretary of 
     Treasury''; and
       (B) in the second sentence, by inserting ``and the 
     Director'' after ``The Secretary''.
       (c) Jurisdiction of FBI and Bureau of Customs.--Section 
     38(e) (22 U.S.C. 2778(e)) is amended in the first sentence by 
     adding at the end before the period the following: ``, and 
     except further, that the Federal Bureau of Investigation and 
     the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection of the Department 
     of Homeland Security shall have concurrent jurisdiction for 
     criminal violations and enforcement of this Act''.
       (d) Mechanisms To Identify Persons in Violation of Certain 
     Provisions of Law.--Section 38(g) (22 U.S.C. 2778(g)) is 
     amended in the second sentence of paragraph (3), in paragraph 
     (4), and in paragraph (8) by inserting ``and the Director of 
     the Federal Bureau of Investigation'' after ``Secretary of 
     Treasury''.

     SEC. 1110. REPORT ON FOREIGN-SUPPLIED DEFENSE ARTICLES, 
                   DEFENSE SERVICES, AND DUAL USE GOODS AND 
                   TECHNOLOGY DISCOVERED IN IRAQ.

       (a) Report.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, and on annual basis thereafter as 
     appropriate, the President shall prepare and transmit to the 
     congressional committees specified in paragraph (2) a written 
     report on foreign-supplied defense articles, defense 
     services, and dual use goods and technology supplied to Iraq 
     since the adoption of United Nations Security Council 
     Resolution 687 (April 3, 1991) and discovered in Iraq since 
     the inception of Operation Iraqi Freedom or identified as 
     having been in Iraq at any time since April 3, 1991, and not 
     destroyed or otherwise accounted for by the United Nations 
     Special Commission (UNSCOM) or the United Nations Monitoring, 
     Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC).
       (2) Congressional committees specified.--The congressional 
     committees referred to in paragraph (1) are--
       (A) the Committee on International Relations and the 
     Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives; 
     and
       (B) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on 
     Armed Services of the Senate.
       (b) Contents.--The report required by subsection (a) shall 
     include information on defense articles, defense services, 
     and dual use goods and technology discovered in accordance 
     with such subsection, including a description of such 
     articles, services, and goods and technology by category or 
     type, quantity, country of origin (if known), manufacturer 
     (if known), date of acquisition (if known), and, in the case 
     of dual use goods and technology, the use or intended use or 
     deployment (if known) and whether the goods or technology are 
     covered by any arms control agreement or nonproliferation 
     arrangement to which the United States is a party.
       (c) Form.--The report required by subsection (a) shall be 
     transmitted in unclassified form to the maximum extent 
     practicable, but may contain a classified annex if necessary.

           TITLE XII--STRENGTHENING MUNITIONS EXPORT CONTROLS

     SEC. 1201. CONTROL OF ITEMS ON MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL 
                   REGIME ANNEX.

       (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that 
     all proposals to export or transfer to foreign persons by 
     other means, whether in the United States or abroad, and any 
     other activities subject to regulation under section 38, 39, 
     or 40 of the Arms Export Control Act, relating to items on 
     the Missile Technology Control Regime Annex, should be 
     accorded stringent control and scrutiny consistent with the 
     purposes of section 71 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 
     U.S.C. 2797).
       (b) Control of Items on MTCR Annex.--The Secretary, in 
     coordination with the Secretary of Commerce, the Attorney 
     General, and the Secretary of Defense, shall ensure that all 
     items on the MTCR Annex are subject to stringent control by 
     the United States Government pursuant to the International 
     Traffic in Arms Regulations and the Export Administration 
     Regulations.

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       (c) Certification.--Not later than March 1 of each year, 
     the Secretary, in coordination with the Secretary of 
     Commerce, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Defense, 
     shall prepare and submit to the appropriate congressional 
     committees a report that contains--
       (1) a certification that the requirement of subsection (b) 
     has been met for the prior year, or if the requirement has 
     not been met, the reasons therefor; and
       (2) a description of the updated coverage, if any, of the 
     regulations referred to in subsection (b) with respect to all 
     items on the MTCR Annex and an explanation of any areas of 
     overlap or omissions, if any, among the regulations.

     SEC. 1202. CERTIFICATIONS RELATING TO EXPORT OF CERTAIN 
                   DEFENSE ARTICLES AND SERVICES.

       Section 36(c) (22 U.S.C. 2776(c)) is amended--
       (1) in the first sentence of paragraph (1), by inserting 
     after ``$1,000,000 or more'' the following: ``, or, 
     notwithstanding section 27(g) of this Act, for any special 
     comprehensive authorization under sections 120-130 of title 
     22, Code of Federal Regulations (commonly known as the 
     `International Traffic in Arms Regulations') for the export 
     of defense articles or defense services in an aggregate 
     amount of $100,000,000 or more'';
       (2) in paragraph (2)--
       (A) by striking subparagraph (B); and
       (B) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as subparagraph (B); 
     and
       (3) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A) of paragraph 
     (5), by inserting ``or paragraph (2)'' after ``paragraph 
     (1)''.

     SEC. 1203. NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS FOR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE 
                   AND MANUFACTURING LICENSING AGREEMENTS WITH 
                   NATO MEMBER COUNTRIES, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, 
                   AND JAPAN.

       Section 36(d) (22 U.S.C. 2776(d)) is amended by adding at 
     the end the following:
       ``(6) In the case of a commercial technical assistance or 
     manufacturing license agreement with a member country of the 
     North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) or Australia, 
     Japan, or New Zealand that does not authorize a new sales 
     territory that includes any country other than such 
     countries, the requirements contained in paragraphs (2) and 
     (4) shall apply only if--
       ``(A) the agreement involves--
       ``(i) major defense equipment in the amount of $7,000,000 
     or more; or
       ``(ii) significant military equipment in the amount of 
     $25,000,000 or more; and
       ``(B) the amount referred to in clause (i) or (ii) of 
     subparagraph (A), as the case may be, includes the estimated 
     value of all defense articles and defense services to be 
     manufactured or transferred throughout the duration of the 
     approval period.''.

     SEC. 1204. STRENGTHENING DEFENSE COOPERATION WITH AUSTRALIA 
                   AND THE UNITED KINGDOM.

       (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that 
     the expeditious consideration of munitions license 
     applications that meet the policy and eligibility criteria 
     established in section 38 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 
     U.S.C. 2778) for export or transfer of defense items (as such 
     term is defined in subsection (j)(4)(A) of such section) to 
     Australia and the United Kingdom is fully consistent with 
     United States security and foreign policy interests and the 
     objectives of world peace and security.
       (b) Establishment of Fast Track Munitions Licensing for 
     Australia and the United Kingdom.--Section 38(f) (22 U.S.C. 
     2778(f)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
       ``(4) In the absence of a binding bilateral agreement with 
     the Government of Australia or the Government of the United 
     Kingdom (as the case may be) that meets the requirements of 
     paragraph (2) and subsection (j), the Secretary of State 
     shall ensure that any application submitted under this 
     section for the export of defense items to Australia or the 
     United Kingdom (as the case may be) that meets all other 
     requirements of this section (including requirements relating 
     to eligibility of parties to the transaction, the absence of 
     risk of diversion to unauthorized end use and end users, and 
     preservation of United States intelligence and law 
     enforcement interests), and which are also transactions 
     involving defense items that would be exempt pursuant to 
     sections 120-130 of title 22, Code of Federal Regulations 
     (commonly known as the `International Traffic in Arms 
     Regulations') from export licensing or other written 
     approvals if such items were items to be exported to Canada, 
     are processed by the Department of State not later than ten 
     days after the date of receipt of the application without 
     referral to any other Federal department or agency, except on 
     an extraordinary basis upon receipt of a written request from 
     the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the 
     Director of Central Intelligence, or the Secretary of 
     Defense.''.

     SEC. 1205. TRAINING AND LIAISON FOR SMALL BUSINESSES.

       (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that it 
     is increasingly important that the Secretary, in 
     administering the licensing, registration, compliance, and 
     other authorities contained in section 38 of the Arms Export 
     Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2778), should provide up-to-date 
     training and other educational assistance to small businesses 
     in the United States aerospace and defense industrial sector.
       (b) Small Business Liaison.--Not later than 180 days after 
     the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall 
     designate, within the Office of Defense Trade Controls of the 
     Department of State, a coordinator for small business 
     affairs. The coordinator shall serve as a liaison for small 
     businesses in the United States aerospace and defense 
     industrial sector with respect to licensing and registration 
     requirements in order to facilitate the compliance and other 
     forms of participation by such small businesses in the United 
     States munitions control system, including by providing 
     training, technical assistance, and through other efforts as 
     may be appropriate.

     SEC. 1206. STUDY AND REPORT RELATING TO CO-LOCATING MUNITIONS 
                   CONTROL FUNCTIONS OF THE DEPARTMENTS OF STATE, 
                   DEFENSE, AND HOMELAND SECURITY.

       (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that 
     the administrative, licensing, and compliance-related 
     functions associated with the export of defense articles and 
     defense services under section 38 of the Arms Export Control 
     Act (22 U.S.C. 2778), which are generally administered by the 
     Department of State in conjunction with the Department of 
     Homeland Security and the Department of Defense, should be 
     expedited consistent with United States security, law 
     enforcement, and foreign policy requirements by a 
     reduction in the those matters necessitating inter-agency 
     referral outside of the Department of State, or by co-
     locating related functions of the Department of Homeland 
     Security and the Department of Defense with those 
     functions of the Department of State in order to minimize 
     the time and administrative tasks to government and 
     industry involved in inter-agency referrals, while also 
     providing a convenient, central location for United States 
     defense companies, especially small businesses.
       (b) Study and Report.--
       (1) Study.--The Secretary, in consultation with the 
     Secretary of Homeland Security and the Secretary of Defense, 
     and through the Federal advisory committee structure with the 
     public, shall conduct a study to examine the relative 
     advantages and disadvantages to the United States Government, 
     the United States defense industry, including United States 
     small businesses, and to other public constituencies of co-
     locating relevant functions and personnel of the Department 
     of State, the Department of Homeland Security, and the 
     Department of Defense with the Office of Defense Trade 
     Controls of the Department of State at a central location 
     convenient to the public and United States defense industry, 
     without prejudice to the responsibilities and prerogatives of 
     the Secretary, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the 
     Secretary of Defense under existing law.
       (2) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall prepare and submit 
     to the appropriate congressional committees a report that 
     contains the results of study conducted under paragraph (1).

         TITLE XIII--SECURITY ASSISTANCE AND RELATED PROVISIONS

      Subtitle A--Foreign Military Sales and Financing Authorities

     SEC. 1301. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

       There are authorized to be appropriated to the President 
     for grant assistance under section 23 of the Arms Export 
     Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2763) and for the subsidy cost, as 
     defined in section 502(5) of the Federal Credit Reform Act of 
     1990, of direct loans under such section $4,414,000,000 for 
     fiscal year 2004.

     SEC. 1302. PROVISION OF CATALOGING DATA AND SERVICES.

       Section 21(h)(2) (22 U.S.C. 2761(h)(2)) is amended by 
     striking ``or to any member government of that Organization 
     if that Organization or member government'' and inserting ``, 
     to any member of that Organization, or to the Governments of 
     Australia, New Zealand, or Japan if that Organization, member 
     government, or the Governments of Australia, New Zealand, or 
     Japan''.

     SEC. 1303. ANNUAL ESTIMATE AND JUSTIFICATION FOR SALES 
                   PROGRAM.

       Section 25(a)(1) (22 U.S.C. 2765(a)(1)) is amended by 
     inserting after ``$7,000,000 or more'' the following ``(or, 
     in the case of a member country of the North Atlantic Treaty 
     Organization (NATO), Australia, New Zealand, or Japan, 
     $25,000,000 or more)''.

     SEC. 1304. ADJUSTMENT TO ADVANCE NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENT FOR 
                   TRANSFER OF CERTAIN EXCESS DEFENSE ARTICLES.

       Section 516(f)(1) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 
     U.S.C. 2321i) is amended by striking ``significant military 
     equipment (as defined in section 47(9) of the Arms Export 
     Control Act)'' and inserting ``major defense equipment (as 
     defined in section 47(6) of the Arms Export Control Act)''.

       Subtitle B--International Military Education and Training

     SEC. 1311. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

       There are authorized to be appropriated to the President 
     $91,700,000 for fiscal year 2004 to carry out chapter 5 of 
     part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2347 
     et seq.).

     SEC. 1312. ANNUAL FOREIGN MILITARY TRAINING REPORTING.

       Section 656(a)(1) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 
     U.S.C. 2416(a)(1)) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``January 31'' and inserting ``March 1''; 
     and
       (2) by striking ``and all such training proposed for the 
     current fiscal year''.

              Subtitle C--Assistance for Select Countries

     SEC. 1321. ASSISTANCE FOR ISRAEL.

       Section 513 of the Security Assistance Act of 2000 (Public 
     Law 106-280) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ``2002 and 2003'' and 
     inserting ``2003 through 2005'';
       (2) in subsection (c)(1), by striking ``2002 and 2003'' and 
     inserting ``2003 through 2005'';
       (3) in subsection (c)(3)--
       (A) by striking ``fiscal years 2002 and 2003'' and 
     inserting ``fiscal years 2004 and 2005'';
       (B) by striking ``fiscal year 2002'' and inserting ``fiscal 
     year 2004''; and

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       (C) by striking ``fiscal year 2003, or'' and inserting 
     ``fiscal year 2005, or''; and
       (4) in subsection (c)(4)--
       (A) by striking ``2002 and 2003'' and inserting ``2003 
     through 2005''; and
       (B) by striking ``$535,000,000 for fiscal year 2002'' and 
     all that follows through ``fiscal year 2003'' and inserting 
     ``$550,000,000 for fiscal year 2003, not less than 
     $565,000,000 for fiscal year 2004, and not less than 
     $580,000,000 for fiscal year 2005''.

     SEC. 1322. ASSISTANCE FOR EGYPT.

       Section 514 of the Security Assistance Act of 2000 (Public 
     Law 106-280) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``2002 and 2003'' each place it appears and 
     inserting ``2003 through 2005''; and
       (2) in subsection (e)--
       (A) by striking ``fiscal years 2002 and 2003'' and 
     inserting ``fiscal years 2004 and 2005'';
       (B) by striking ``fiscal year 2002'' and inserting ``fiscal 
     year 2004''; and
       (C) by striking ``fiscal year 2003, or'' and inserting 
     ``fiscal year 2005, or''.

                  Subtitle D--Miscellaneous Provisions

     SEC. 1331. UNITED STATES WAR RESERVE STOCKPILES FOR ALLIES.

       Section 514(b)(2) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 
     U.S.C. 2321h(b)(2)) is amended--
       (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``for fiscal year 
     2003'' and inserting ``for each of fiscal years 2003 and 
     2004''; and
       (2) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``for fiscal year 
     2003'' and inserting ``for each of fiscal years 2003 and 
     2004''.

     SEC. 1332. TRANSFER TO ISRAEL OF CERTAIN DEFENSE ARTICLES IN 
                   THE UNITED STATES WAR RESERVE STOCKPILES FOR 
                   ALLIES.

       (a) Authorization.--Notwithstanding section 514 of the 
     Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2321h), the 
     President is authorized to transfer to Israel, in return for 
     concessions to be negotiated by the Secretary of Defense, 
     with the concurrence of the Secretary, defense articles, 
     including armor, artillery, ammunition for automatic weapons, 
     missiles, and other munitions that are--
       (1) obsolete or surplus items;
       (2) in the inventory of the Department of Defense;
       (3) intended for use as reserve stocks in Israel; and
       (4) are located in a stockpile in Israel as of the date of 
     enactment of this Act.
       (b) Concessions.--The value of concessions negotiated 
     pursuant to subsection (a) shall be at least equal to the 
     fair market value of the items transferred. The concessions 
     may include cash compensation, services, waiver of charges 
     otherwise payable by the United States, and other items of 
     value.
       (c) Advance Notification of Transfer.--
       (1) In general.--Not less than 30 days before making a 
     transfer under the authority of this section, the President 
     shall transmit a notification describing the items to be 
     transferred to Israel and the concessions to be received by 
     the United States to the congressional committees specified 
     in paragraph (2).
       (2) Congressional committees specified.--The congressional 
     committees referred to in paragraph (1) are--
       (A) the Committee on International Relations and the 
     Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives; 
     and
       (B) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on 
     Armed Services of the Senate.
       (d) Expiration of Authority.--No transfer may be made under 
     the authority of this section following the expiration of the 
     five-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this 
     Act.

     SEC. 1333. EXPANSION OF AUTHORITIES FOR LOAN OF MATERIAL, 
                   SUPPLIES, AND EQUIPMENT FOR RESEARCH AND 
                   DEVELOPMENT PURPOSES.

       Section 65 (22 U.S.C. 2796d) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)(1), by inserting ``or a friendly 
     foreign country'' after ``ally'' each place such term 
     appears; and
       (2) in subsection (d) to read as follows:
       ``(d) For purposes of this section--
       ``(1) the term `NATO ally' means a member country of the 
     North Atlantic Treaty Organization (other than the United 
     States); and
       ``(2) the term `friendly foreign country' means any non-
     NATO member country determined by the President to be 
     eligible for a cooperative project agreement with the United 
     States pursuant to section 27(j) of this Act.''.

     SEC. 1334. ASSISTANCE FOR DEMINING AND RELATED ACTIVITIES.

       (a) Assistance.--The Secretary is authorized to provide 
     grants to, or enter into contracts or cooperative agreements 
     with, public-private partnerships for the purpose of 
     establishing and carrying out demining, clearance of 
     unexploded ordnance, and related activities in foreign 
     countries.
       (b) Limitation.--Except as otherwise provided, the total 
     amount provided on a grant basis to public-private 
     partnerships under subsection (a) for a fiscal year may not 
     exceed $450,000.
       (c) Funding.--Amounts made available to carry out 
     ``Nonproliferation, Anti-Terrorism, Demining, and Related 
     Programs'' for fiscal year 2004 are authorized to be made 
     available to carry out this section.

     SEC. 1335. REPORTS RELATING TO TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED 
                   STATES AND THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION ON STRATEGIC 
                   OFFENSIVE REDUCTIONS.

       The President shall submit to the Committee on 
     International Relations of the House of Representatives all 
     reports submitted to the Committee on Foreign Relations 
     pursuant to section 2 of the Senate Resolution of 
     Ratification to Accompany Treaty Document 107-8, Treaty 
     Between the United States of America and the Russian 
     Federation on Strategic Offensive Reductions.

     SEC. 1336. STATEMENT OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REGARDING 
                   THE TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE 
                   RUSSIAN FEDERATION ON STRATEGIC OFFENSIVE 
                   REDUCTIONS.

       The House of Representatives--
       (1) concurs with the declarations of the Senate in section 
     3 of the Resolution of Ratification to Accompany Treaty 
     Document 107-8, Treaty Between the United States of America 
     and the Russian Federation on Strategic Offensive Reductions;
       (2) encourages the President to continue strategic 
     offensive reductions to the lowest possible levels consistent 
     with national security requirements and alliance obligations 
     of the United States;
       (3) urges the President to engage the Russian Federation 
     with the objectives of establishing cooperative measures to 
     give each party to the Treaty Between the United States 
     of America and the Russian Federation on Strategic 
     Offensive Reductions improved confidence regarding the 
     accurate accounting and security of nonstrategic nuclear 
     weapons maintained by the other party; and
       (4) encourages the President to accelerate United States 
     strategic force reductions, to the extent feasible and 
     consistent with the treaty, in order that the reductions 
     required by Article I of the Treaty Between the United States 
     of America and the Russian Federation on Strategic Offensive 
     Reductions may be achieved prior to December 31, 2012.

     SEC. 1337. NONPROLIFERATION AND DISARMAMENT FUND.

       (a) Authorization of Appropriations.--
       (1) In general.--There are authorized to be appropriated to 
     the President to carry out section 504 of the Freedom for 
     Russia and Emerging Eurasian Democracies and Open Markets 
     Support Act of 1992 (22 U.S.C. 5854; relating to the 
     ``Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund'') $60,000,000 for 
     each of the fiscal years 2004 and 2005.
       (2) Availability.--Amounts appropriated pursuant to the 
     authorization of appropriations under paragraph (1) are 
     authorized to remain available until expended.
       (b) Nonproliferation of Highly Enriched Uranium.--
       (1) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
       (A) Highly enriched uranium is the most likely source 
     material for terrorist or other outlaw organizations that 
     seek to acquire a nuclear weapon.
       (B) Such organizations are not likely to produce this 
     source material on their own, but will instead look to divert 
     highly enriched uranium from some of the many vulnerable 
     stockpiles in numerous facilities around the world.
       (C) There is a need for a coordinated United States 
     Government initiative to secure and dispose of highly 
     enriched uranium stockpiles in these vulnerable facilities 
     around the world.
       (D) The Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund (NDF) is a 
     unique and flexible entity that is well-suited to carry out 
     the initiative described in subparagraph (C), in cooperation 
     with other Federal departments and agencies, including the 
     Department of Energy.
       (2) Initiative.--The Secretary of State is authorized to 
     establish and carry out an initiative to secure and dispose 
     of highly enriched uranium stockpiles in foreign countries, 
     including the provision of such assistance as may be required 
     to secure host country cooperation under the initiative.
       (3) Authorization of appropriations.--Of the amounts made 
     available to carry out section 504 of the Freedom for Russia 
     and Emerging Eurasian Democracies and Open Markets Support 
     Act of 1992 (22 U.S.C. 5854) for fiscal years 2004 and 2005, 
     there are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary to 
     carry out paragraph (2) $25,000,000 for each such fiscal 
     year.

     SEC. 1338. MARITIME INTERDICTION PATROL BOATS FOR MOZAMBIQUE.

       (a) In General.--Of the amounts made available to carry out 
     section 23 of the Arms Export Control Act for fiscal year 
     2004, there is authorized to be appropriated $1,000,000 for 
     refurbishment, delivery, operational training, and related 
     costs associated with the provision of not more than four 
     excess coastal patrol boats to the Government of Mozambique 
     for maritime patrol and interdiction activities.
       (b) Availability.--Amounts appropriated pursuant to the 
     authorization of appropriations under subsection (a) are 
     authorized to remain available until September 30, 2006.

     SEC. 1339. REPORT ON MISSILE DEFENSE COOPERATION.

       Not later than December 31, 2003, and December 31, 2004, 
     the Secretary of State shall submit to the appropriate 
     congressional committees a report on cooperative efforts that 
     have been undertaken by the United States with foreign 
     governments to foster the development and deployment of 
     defenses against missile attack. Such report shall include a 
     detailed description of such efforts on a country-by-country 
     basis, and may be submitted in classified and unclassified 
     form, as appropriate.

     SEC. 1340. IRAN'S PROGRAM TO DEVELOP A NUCLEAR EXPLOSIVE 
                   DEVICE.

       (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
       (1) Iran, as a party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation 
     of Nuclear Weapons, has legally forsworn developing or 
     acquiring nuclear weapons.
       (2) Iran has for more than a decade pursued a program aimed 
     at the development of a nuclear explosive device.
       (3) Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet has 
     repeatedly warned of Iran's clandestine efforts to acquire 
     weapons of mass destruction, stating as recently as February 
     11, 2003, in testimony before Congress that ``Iran is 
     continuing to pursue development of a nuclear fuel cycle for 
     civilian and nuclear weapons purposes . . . [and further 
     that] Tehran may be able to

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     indigenously produce enough fissile material for a nuclear 
     weapon'' within this decade.
       (4) On March 17, 2003, Dr. el Baradei, Director General of 
     the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), called on Iran 
     to agree to a more intrusive monitoring regime at its nuclear 
     sites and demanded that Iran, which is a signatory to the 
     Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, agree to an ``additional 
     protocol'' under the IAEA's nuclear inspection rights, which 
     would enable more intrusive monitoring.
       (5) In early 2003 Iran announced plans to mine its own 
     natural uranium and admitted constructing two nuclear 
     facilities, one a gas centrifuge uranium enrichment facility 
     and the other a heavy water production plant.
       (6) A uranium enrichment facility would give Iran the 
     capability to indigenously produce nuclear-weapons grade 
     uranium. Further, heavy water is used in reactors that not 
     only produce weapons-grade plutonium, but also tritium, a key 
     ingredient in boosted-fission weapons.
       (7) At the same time, Iran has been developing long-range 
     missiles that could deliver nuclear explosive devices. 
     Director of Central Intelligence Tenet has warned that Iran 
     could flight test an intercontinental ballistic missile later 
     this decade.
       (8) Iran has received considerable assistance in its 
     nuclear program and in its missile development program from 
     the Russian Federation, the People's Republic of China, and 
     North Korea.
       (9) Congress has long been seized with finding ways to 
     deter or delay Iran's acquisition or development of such 
     deadly weapons, including through the enactment of the Iran-
     Iraq Arms Non-Proliferation Act of 1992, the Iran Libya 
     Sanctions Act of 1996, the Iran Non-Proliferation Act of 
     2000, and the Iran Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Act of 
     2002.
       (10) Successive Administrations have similarly sought to 
     deter or delay Iran's acquisition or development of such 
     weapons by such measures as elevating Iran's proliferation 
     behavior in bilateral relations with the Russian Federation 
     and the People's Republic of China, sanctioning entities of 
     the Russian Federation providing technology or expertise to 
     Iran's nuclear and missile programs, and urging multilateral 
     export control regimes to deny sensitive technology to 
     proliferators like Iran.
       (11) President Bush included Iran as one of the countries 
     that comprise the ``axis of evil'' in his January 2002 State 
     of the Union Address because of its efforts to develop 
     weapons of mass destruction and its support of international 
     terrorism. Iran has been the principle supporter and supplier 
     to Hizballah in southern Lebanon, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad. 
     Further, the leaders of Iran have publicly called for the 
     destruction of the State of Israel.
       (12) A nuclear-armed Iran would pose a grave threat to the 
     national security of the United States and to our allies in 
     the region.
       (b) Statement of Policy.--Congress--
       (1) finds that Iran's support of terrorism and its efforts 
     to develop nuclear weapons are a grave threat to the national 
     security of the United States and its allies and to the 
     United States Armed Forces;
       (2) declares that the United States and our friends and 
     allies must make maximum efforts to prevent Iran from 
     developing or acquiring nuclear weapons and the missiles to 
     deliver them;
       (3) urges the President to use all appropriate means to 
     prevent Iran from gaining such capabilities;
       (4) urges the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to 
     employ the full range of its inspection authorities to ensure 
     that Iran's nuclear program is used for peaceful purposes 
     only;
       (5) encourages Iran to sign and ratify the new nuclear 
     safeguards protocol, the ``Model Additional Protocol 
     (INFCIRC/540-Corr)'' to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation 
     of Nuclear Weapons, which would demonstrate Iran's commitment 
     to sharing information about its nuclear program with the 
     IAEA and the international community and to full disclosure 
     and transparency about its nuclear program; and
       (6) urges the United States resident representative to the 
     IAEA to work with the Board of Governors of the IAEA on 
     guidelines for early identification of noncompliance with the 
     Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

            TITLE XIV--MISSILE THREAT REDUCTION ACT OF 2003

     SEC. 1401. SHORT TITLE.

       This title may be cited as the ``Missile Threat Reduction 
     Act of 2003''.

  Subtitle A--Strengthening International Missile Nonproliferation Law

     SEC. 1411. FINDINGS.

       Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) The spread of offensive ballistic missiles suitable for 
     launching nuclear, chemical, and biological warheads is 
     accelerating across the globe.
       (2) According to the Carnegie Endowment for International 
     Peace, more than 25 countries possess missiles with ranges in 
     excess of 300 kilometers and capable of delivering a nuclear 
     warhead.
       (3)(A) Many of the countries now possessing such missiles, 
     and engaging in the sale and transfer of such missiles and 
     their production technology to other countries, are directly 
     hostile to the United States, its interests, and its allies.
       (B) Of particular concern in this regard is North Korea, 
     which regularly sells ballistic missiles and technology to 
     countries in regions of instability and concern to the United 
     States.
       (4) The Central Intelligence Agency has stated in its most 
     recent report on the foreign ballistic missile threat the 
     following:
       ``Emerging ballistic missile states continue to increase 
     the range, reliability, and accuracy of the missile systems 
     in their inventories--posing ever greater risks to U.S. 
     forces, interests, and allies throughout the world. A decade 
     ago, U.S. and allied forces abroad faced threats from SRBM's 
     [Short Range Ballistic Missiles]--primarily the Scud and its 
     variants. Today, countries have deployed or are on the verge 
     of deploying MRBM's [Medium Range Ballistic Missiles], 
     placing greater numbers of targets at risk.
       ``Proliferation of ballistic missile-related technologies, 
     materials, and expertise--especially by Russian, Chinese, and 
     North Korean entities--has enabled emerging missile states to 
     accelerate the development timelines for their existing 
     programs, acquire turnkey systems to gain previously non-
     existent capabilities--in the case of the Chinese sale of the 
     M-11 SRBM to Pakistan--and lay the groundwork for the 
     expansion of domestic infrastructures to potentially 
     accommodate even more capable and longer range future 
     systems.''.
       (5) The same CIA report also noted the following: ``North 
     Korea has assumed the role as the missile and manufacturing 
     technology source for many programs. North Korean willingness 
     to sell complete systems and components has enabled other 
     states to acquire longer range capabilities earlier than 
     otherwise would have been possible--notably the sale of the 
     No Dong MRBM to Pakistan. The North also has helped countries 
     to acquire technologies to serve as the basis for domestic 
     development efforts--as with Iran's reverse-engineering of 
     the No Dong in the Shahab-3 program. Meanwhile, Iran is 
     expanding its efforts to sell missile technology.''.
       (6) Since 1987, 33 countries have committed to abide by a 
     voluntary set of guidelines known as the Missile Technology 
     Control Regime (MTCR), whereby adherents agreed to refrain 
     from the transfer to nonadherents of certain categories of 
     whole missiles, their constituent parts, and the facilities 
     to manufacture them, especially ``Category I'' missiles, 
     which at a range of 300 kilometers or more and a payload 
     capacity of 500 kilograms or more are especially suited for 
     delivering nuclear weapons.
       (7) In October 2002, 93 countries committed to observe a 
     nonbinding code of conduct derived from, but less restrictive 
     than, the nonbinding MTCR. While this is a welcome 
     achievement, it does not provide a legal obligation on its 
     adherents to refrain from the trade in missiles or missile 
     technology.
       (8) On December 10, 2002, the White House released its 
     ``National Strategy to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction'', 
     wherein it is stated that strengthening international 
     nonproliferation controls on weapons of mass destruction 
     (WMD) and upon the missiles that can deliver them is the 
     second of three principal pillars of the National Strategy. 
     The National Strategy also states that ``effective 
     interdiction is a critical part of the U.S. strategy to 
     combat WMD and their delivery means''.
       (9) On December 11, 2002, the United States took control of 
     an unflagged freighter that was attempting clandestinely to 
     ship, from North Korea to Yemen, SCUD missiles of a type that 
     would be generally prohibited from transfer as Category I 
     missiles.
       (10) Neither North Korea nor Yemen is an adherent to the 
     MTCR guidelines, which in any case are not legally binding, 
     and there is no binding international legal instrument that 
     would prohibit shipments of the missiles referred to in 
     paragraph (9).
       (11) At Yemen's request, the United States released the 
     shipment of North Korean Scud missiles to Yemen.
       (12) Also on December 11, 2002, the White House press 
     spokesman stated that existing international law regarding 
     halting the spread of missile proliferation could be 
     strengthened. The new National Strategy to Combat Weapons of 
     Mass Destruction also commits the United States to support 
     those regimes that are currently in force, and to work to 
     improve the effectiveness of, and compliance with, those 
     regimes, and identifies the MTCR as a regime that the United 
     States will seek to strengthen.
       (13) Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, testifying on 
     February 12, 2003, before the Committee on Armed Services of 
     the Senate, stated the following: ``. . . [I]t's pretty clear 
     that the proliferation regimes that exist in the world worked 
     pretty well before, [but] they're not working very well right 
     now. . . . [U]nless the world wakes up and says this is a 
     dangerous thing and creates a set of regimes that will in 
     fact get cooperation to stop those weapons, we're going to be 
     facing a very serious situation in the next five years.''.
       (14) The MTCR has made an invaluable contribution to 
     restraint in the international trade of offensive ballistic 
     missiles. Strengthening international controls on ballistic 
     missiles, however, will require a dramatic expansion of 
     adherents that rigorously abide by the MTCR's guidelines, and 
     a binding legal basis for the United Nations and countries 
     devoted to nonproliferation to prevent, and when necessary 
     act to prevent, further proliferation of offensive ballistic 
     missiles around the world.
       (15) Therefore, it should be the policy of the United 
     States to promote the creation of new international 
     mechanisms that would, in all future circumstances, allow the 
     peace-loving and law-abiding nations of the world the 
     authority to interdict and prevent the transfer of such 
     missiles.

     SEC. 1412. POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES.

       It shall be the policy of the United States to seek a 
     binding international instrument or instruments to restrict 
     the trade in offensive ballistic missiles with ranges of 300 
     kilometers or more that have a payload capacity of 500 
     kilograms or more. Such a binding international instrument 
     may take the form of a multilateral treaty, a United Nations 
     Security Council resolution, or other instrument of 
     international law, and should provide for enforcement 
     measures including interdiction, seizure, and impoundment of 
     illicit shipments of offensive ballistic

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     missiles and related technology, equipment, and components.

     SEC. 1413. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

       It is the sense of the Congress that the United States 
     should immediately introduce a resolution in the United 
     Nations Security Council to prohibit all members of the 
     United Nations from purchasing, receiving, assisting or 
     allowing the transfer of, and to authorize the subsequent 
     interdiction, seizure, and impoundment of, any missile, 
     missile-related equipment, means of producing missiles, or 
     missile-related technology from North Korea.

  Subtitle B--Strengthening United States Missile Nonproliferation Law

     SEC. 1421. PROBATIONARY PERIOD FOR FOREIGN PERSONS.

       (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law, upon the expiration, or the granting of a waiver, on or 
     after January 1, 2003, of sanctions against a foreign person 
     imposed under section 73(a) of the Arms Export Control Act 
     (22 U.S.C. 2797b(a)) or under section 11B(b)(1) of the Export 
     Administration Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. App. 2410b(b)(1)), as 
     continued in effect under the International Emergency 
     Economic Powers Act, a license shall be required, for a 
     period of not less than 3 years, for the export to that 
     foreign person of all items controlled for export under 
     section 5 or 6 of the Export Administration Act of 1979 (50 
     U.S.C. App. 2404, 2405), as continued in effect under the 
     International Emergency Economic Powers Act, in accordance 
     with the Export Administration Regulations.
       (b) Termination.--Subsection (a) shall not apply to a 
     foreign person 30 days after the President notifies the 
     Committee on International Relations of the House of 
     Representatives and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
     Urban Affairs and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 
     Senate that he has determined that--
       (1) the foreign person has--
       (A) ceased all activity related to the original imposition 
     of sanctions under section 73(a) of the Arms Export Control 
     Act or section 11B(b)(A) of the Export Administration Act of 
     1979, as the case may be; and
       (B) has instituted a program of transparency measures 
     whereby the United States will be able to verify for at least 
     a period of 3 years that the foreign person is not engaging 
     in prohibited activities under those provisions of law 
     referred to in paragraph (1); and
       (2) there has been an appropriate resolution of the 
     original violation or violations, such as financial 
     penalties, incarceration, destruction of prohibited items, or 
     other appropriate measures taken to prevent a recurrence of 
     the violation or violations.

     SEC. 1422. STRENGTHENING UNITED STATES MISSILE PROLIFERATION 
                   SANCTIONS ON FOREIGN PERSONS.

       (a) Arms Export Control Act.--Section 73(a)(2) (22 U.S.C. 
     2797b(a)(2)) is amended by striking ``2 years'' each place it 
     appears and inserting ``4 years''.
       (b) Public Information.--Section 73(e)(2) (22 U.S.C. 
     2797b(e)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the following 
     new sentence: ``Such report may be classified only to the 
     extent necessary to protect intelligence sources and methods. 
     If the report is so classified, the President shall make 
     every effort to acquire sufficient alternative information 
     that would allow a subsequent unclassified version of the 
     report to be issued.''.
       (c) Export Administration Act of 1979.--Any sanction 
     imposed on a foreign person under section 11B(b)(1) of the 
     Export Administration Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. App. 
     2410b(b)(1)), as continued in effect under the International 
     Emergency Economic Powers Act, shall be in effect for a 
     period of 4 years beginning on the date on which the sanction 
     was imposed.
       (d) Applicability.--The amendments made by subsections (a) 
     and (b) and the provisions of subsection (c) shall apply to 
     all sanctions imposed under section 73(a) of the Arms Export 
     Control Act or section 11B(b)(1) of the Export Administration 
     Act of 1979, as continued in effect under the International 
     Emergency Economic Powers Act, by reason of acts giving rise 
     to such sanctions that were committed by foreign persons on 
     or after January 1, 2003.

     SEC. 1423. COMPREHENSIVE UNITED STATES MISSILE PROLIFERATION 
                   SANCTIONS ON ALL RESPONSIBLE PERSONS.

       (a) Arms Export Control Act.--Section 73(a) (22 U.S.C. 
     2797b(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(3)(A) Sanctions imposed upon a foreign person under 
     paragraph (2) shall also be imposed on any governmental 
     entity that the President determines exercises effective 
     control over, benefits from, or directly or indirectly 
     facilitates the activities of that foreign person.
       ``(B) When a sanction is imposed on a foreign person under 
     paragraph (2), the President may also impose that sanction on 
     any other person or entity that the President has reason to 
     believe has or may acquire items that may not be exported to 
     that foreign person on account of the sanction imposed on 
     that foreign person, with the intent to transfer to that 
     foreign person, or provide to that foreign person access to, 
     such items.
       ``(C) The President may also prohibit, for such period of 
     time as he may determine, any transaction or dealing, by a 
     United States person or within the United States, with any 
     foreign person on whom sanctions have been imposed under this 
     subsection.
       ``(D) The President shall report on an annual basis to the 
     Committee on International Relations of the House of 
     Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 
     Senate the identity of any foreign person that engages in any 
     transaction or activity with a foreign person on whom 
     sanctions have been imposed under this subsection that 
     either--
       ``(i) would be the basis for imposing sanctions under 
     subparagraph (B) but for which sanctions have not been 
     imposed; or
       ``(ii) would be the basis for imposing sanctions under 
     subparagraph (C) if the transaction or activity had been 
     carried out by a United States person or by a person in the 
     United States.
     Such report shall be unclassified to the maximum extent 
     feasible, but may include a classified annex.''.
       (b) Definition of Person.--Section 74(a)(8)(A) (22 U.S.C. 
     2797c(a)(8)(A)) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(8)(A) the term `person' means--
       ``(i) a natural person;
       ``(ii) a corporation, business association, partnership, 
     society, trust, transnational corporation, or transnational 
     joint venture, any other nongovernmental entity, 
     organization, or group, and any governmental entity;
       ``(iii) any subsidiary, subunit, or parent entity of any 
     business enterprise or other organization or entity listed in 
     clause (ii); and
       ``(iv) any successor of any business enterprise or other 
     organization or entity listed in clause (ii) or (iii); and''.
       (c) Export Administration Act of 1979.--
       (1) Sanctions imposed on government entities.--Any sanction 
     imposed on a foreign person under section 11B(b)(1)(B) of the 
     Export Administration Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. App. 
     2410b(b)(1)(B)), as continued in effect under the 
     International Emergency Economic Powers Act (in this 
     subsection referred to as a ``dual use sanction''), shall 
     also be imposed on any governmental entity that the President 
     determines exercises effective control over, benefits from, 
     or directly or indirectly facilitates the activities of that 
     foreign person.
       (2) Other entities.--When a dual use sanction is imposed on 
     a foreign person, the President may also impose that sanction 
     on any other person or entity that the President has reason 
     to believe has or may acquire items that may not be exported 
     to that foreign person on account of the dual use sanction 
     imposed on that foreign person, with the intent to transfer 
     to that foreign person, or provide to that foreign person 
     access to, such items.
       (3) Transactions by third parties.--The President may also 
     prohibit, for such period of time as he may determine, any 
     transaction or dealing, by a United States person or within 
     the United States, with any foreign person on whom dual use 
     sanctions have been imposed.
       (4) Report.--The President shall submit on an annual basis 
     to the appropriate congressional committees a report that 
     contains the identity of any foreign person that engages in 
     any transaction or activity with a foreign person on whom 
     dual use sanctions have been imposed that either--
       (A) would be the basis for imposing dual use sanctions 
     under paragraph (2) but for which such sanctions have not 
     been imposed; or
       (B) would be the basis for imposing dual use sanctions 
     under paragraph (3) if the transaction or activity had been 
     carried out by a United States person or by a person in the 
     United States.
     Such report shall be unclassified to the maximum extent 
     feasible, but may include a classified annex.
       (5) Definitions.--In this subsection:
       (A) Person.--The term ``person'' means--
       (i) a natural person;
       (ii) a corporation, business association, partnership, 
     society, trust, transnational corporation, or transnational 
     joint venture, any other nongovernmental entity, 
     organization, or group, and any governmental entity;
       (iii) any subsidiary, subunit, or parent entity of any 
     business enterprise or other organization or entity listed in 
     clause (ii); and
       (iv) any successor of any business enterprise or other 
     organization or entity listed in clause (ii) or (iii).
       (B) In the case of countries where it may be impossible to 
     identify a specific governmental entity referred to in 
     subparagraph (A), the term ``person'' means--
       (i) all activities of that government relating to the 
     development or production of any missile equipment or 
     technology; and
       (ii) all activities of that government affecting the 
     development or production of aircraft, electronics, and space 
     systems or equipment.
       (C) United states person.--The term ``United States 
     person'' has the meaning given that term in section 16(2) of 
     the Export Administration Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. App. 
     2415(2)).
       (D) Missile equipment or technology.--The term ``missile 
     equipment or technology'' has the meaning given that term in 
     section 11B(c) of the Export Administration Act of 1979 (50 
     U.S.C. App. 2410b(c)).
       (d) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsections (a) 
     and (b) shall apply with respect to sanctions imposed on or 
     after January 1, 2003, on foreign persons under section 
     73(a)(2) of the Arms Export Control Act, and the provisions 
     of subsection (c) shall apply with respect to sanctions 
     imposed on or after January 1, 2003, on foreign persons under 
     section 11B(b) of the Export Administration Act of 1979 (50 
     U.S.C. App. 2410b(b)), as continued in effect under the 
     International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

          Subtitle C--Incentives for Missile Threat Reduction

     SEC. 1431. FOREIGN ASSISTANCE.

       (a) Types of Assistance.--The President is authorized to 
     provide, on such terms as the President deems appropriate, 
     the following assistance to countries that agree to destroy 
     their ballistic missiles, and their facilities for producing 
     ballistic missiles, that have a payload capacity of 500 
     kilograms or more over a distance of 300 kilometers or more:
       (1) Assistance under section 23 of the Arms Export Control 
     Act (22 U.S.C. 2763).
       (2) Assistance under chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2346 et

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     seq.), notwithstanding section 531(e) or 660(a) of that Act 
     (22 U.S.C. 2346(e) or 2420(a)).
       (3) Drawdown of defense articles, defense services, and 
     military education and training under section 506 of the 
     Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2318).
       (b) Congressional Notification.--Assistance authorized 
     under subsection (a) may not be provided until 30 days after 
     the date on which the President has provided notice thereof 
     to the appropriate congressional committees in accordance 
     with the procedures applicable to reprogramming notifications 
     under section 634A(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
     (22 U.S.C. 2394-1(a)).
       (c) Limitation.--Any assistance provided to a country under 
     subsection (a) may not be provided in more than 3 fiscal 
     years.

     SEC. 1432. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

       (a) Authorization.--There is authorized to be appropriated 
     to the President to carry out section 1431 the sum of 
     $250,000,000.
       (b) Availability.--Amounts appropriated pursuant to the 
     authorization of appropriations under subsection (a) are 
     authorized to remain available until expended.

     SEC. 1433. AUTHORIZATION OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE IN MISSILE 
                   DISARMAMENT.

       The President is authorized to provide technical assistance 
     in the destruction of any missile or facility for producing 
     ballistic missiles, in any country that requests such 
     assistance.

  TITLE XV--PROMOTION OF DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND RULE OF LAW IN 
                                BELARUS

     SEC. 1501. ASSISTANCE TO PROMOTE DEMOCRACY AND CIVIL SOCIETY 
                   IN BELARUS.

       (a) Purposes of Assistance.--The assistance under this 
     section shall be available for the following purposes:
       (1) To assist the people of the Republic of Belarus in 
     regaining their freedom and to enable them to join the 
     European community of democracies.
       (2) To encourage free and fair presidential, parliamentary, 
     and local elections in Belarus, conducted in a manner 
     consistent with internationally accepted standards and under 
     the supervision of internationally recognized observers.
       (3) To assist in restoring and strengthening institutions 
     of democratic governance in Belarus.
       (b) Authorization for Assistance.--To carry out the 
     purposes of subsection (a), the President is authorized to 
     furnish assistance and other support for the activities 
     described in subsection (c), to be provided primarily for 
     indigenous Belarusian groups that are committed to the 
     support of democratic processes.
       (c) Activities Supported.--Activities that may be supported 
     by assistance under subsection (b) include--
       (1) the observation of elections and the promotion of free 
     and fair electoral processes;
       (2) development of democratic political parties;
       (3) radio and television broadcasting to and within 
     Belarus;
       (4) the development of nongovernmental organizations 
     promoting democracy and supporting human rights;
       (5) the development of independent media working within 
     Belarus and from locations outside the country and supported 
     by nonstate-controlled printing facilities;
       (6) international exchanges and advanced professional 
     training programs for leaders and members of the democratic 
     forces in skill areas central to the development of civil 
     society; and
       (7) other activities consistent with the purposes of this 
     title.
       (d) Authorization of Appropriations.--
       (1) In general.--There is authorized to be appropriated to 
     the President to carry out this section such sums as may be 
     necessary for fiscal years 2004 and 2005.
       (2) Availability of funds.--Amounts appropriated pursuant 
     to the authorization of appropriations under paragraph (1) 
     are authorized to remain available until expended.

     SEC. 1502. RADIO BROADCASTING TO BELARUS.

       (a) Purpose.--It is the purpose of this section to 
     authorize increased support for United States Government and 
     surrogate radio broadcasting to the Republic of Belarus that 
     will facilitate the unhindered dissemination of information.
       (b) Authorization of Appropriations.--In addition to such 
     sums as are otherwise authorized to be appropriated, there is 
     authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary 
     for each fiscal year for Voice of America and RFE/RL, 
     Incorporated for radio broadcasting to the people of Belarus 
     in languages spoken in Belarus.

     SEC. 1503. SENSE OF CONGRESS RELATING TO SANCTIONS AGAINST 
                   THE GOVERNMENT OF BELARUS.

       (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that 
     the sanctions described in subsections (c) and (d) should 
     apply with respect to the Republic of Belarus until the 
     President determines and certifies to the appropriate 
     congressional committees that the Government of Belarus has 
     made significant progress in meeting the conditions described 
     in subsection (b).
       (b) Conditions.--The conditions referred to in subsection 
     (a) are the following:
       (1) The release of individuals in Belarus who have been 
     jailed based on political or religious beliefs.
       (2) The withdrawal of politically motivated legal charges 
     against all opposition figures and independent journalists in 
     Belarus.
       (3) A full accounting of the disappearances of opposition 
     leaders and journalists in Belarus, including Victor Gonchar, 
     Anatoly Krasovsky, Yuri Zakharenka, and Dmitry Zavadsky, and 
     the prosecution of those individuals who are responsible for 
     their disappearances.
       (4) The cessation of all forms of harassment and repression 
     against the independent media, independent trade unions, 
     nongovernmental organizations, religious organizations 
     (including their leadership and members), and the political 
     opposition in Belarus.
       (5) The implementation of free and fair presidential and 
     parliamentary elections in Belarus consistent with OSCE 
     standards on democratic elections and in cooperation with 
     relevant OSCE institutions.
       (c) Denial of Entry Into the United States of Belarusian 
     Officials.--The President should use his authority under 
     section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
     U.S.C. 1182(f)) to deny the entry into the United States of 
     any alien who--
       (1) holds a position in the senior leadership of the 
     Government of Belarus; or
       (2) is a spouse, minor child, or agent of a person 
     inadmissible under paragraph (1).
       (d) Prohibition on Loans and Investment.--
       (1) United states government financing.--No loan, credit 
     guarantee, insurance, financing, or other similar financial 
     assistance should be extended by any agency of the United 
     States Government (including the Export-Import Bank and the 
     Overseas Private Investment Corporation) to the Government of 
     Belarus, except with respect to the provision of humanitarian 
     goods and agricultural or medical products.
       (2) Trade and development agency.--No funds available to 
     the Trade and Development Agency should be available for 
     activities of the Agency in or for Belarus.
       (e) Multilateral Financial Assistance.--It is further the 
     sense of Congress that, in addition to the application of the 
     sanctions described in subsections (c) and (d) to the 
     Republic of Belarus (until the President determines and 
     certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that 
     the Government of Belarus has made significant progress in 
     meeting the conditions described in subsection (b)), the 
     Secretary of the Treasury should instruct the United States 
     Executive Director of each international financial 
     institution to which the United States is a member to use the 
     voice and vote of the United States to oppose any extension 
     by those institutions of any financial assistance (including 
     any technical assistance or grant) of any kind to the 
     Government of Belarus, except for loans and assistance that 
     serve humanitarian needs.

     SEC. 1504. MULTILATERAL COOPERATION.

        It is the sense of Congress that the President should 
     continue to seek to coordinate with other countries, 
     particularly European countries, a comprehensive, 
     multilateral strategy to further the purposes of this title, 
     including, as appropriate, encouraging other countries to 
     take measures with respect to the Republic of Belarus that 
     are similar to measures described in this title.

     SEC. 1505. REPORT.

       (a) Report.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, and every year thereafter, the 
     President shall transmit to the appropriate congressional 
     committees a report that describes, with respect to the 
     preceding 12-month period, the following:
       (1) The sale or delivery of weapons or weapons-related 
     technologies from the Republic of Belarus to any country, the 
     government of which the Secretary of State has determined, 
     for purposes of section 6(j)(1) of the Export Administration 
     Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. App. 2405(j)(1)), has repeatedly 
     provided support for acts of international terrorism.
       (2) An identification of each country described in 
     paragraph (1) and a detailed description of the weapons or 
     weapons-related technologies involved in the sale.
       (3) An identification of the goods, services, credits, or 
     other consideration received by Belarus in exchange for the 
     weapons or weapons-related technologies.
       (4) The personal assets and wealth of Aleksandr Lukashenka 
     and other senior leadership of the Government of Belarus.
       (b) Form.--A report transmitted pursuant to subsection (a) 
     shall be in unclassified form but may contain a classified 
     annex.

     SEC. 1506. DEFINITIONS.

       In this title:
       (1) Osce.--The term ``OSCE'' means the Organization for 
     Security and Cooperation in Europe.
       (2) Senior leadership of the government of belarus.--The 
     term ``senior leadership of the Government of Belarus'' 
     includes--
       (A) the President, Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Ministers, 
     government ministers, Chairmen of State Committees, and 
     members of the Presidential Administration of Belarus;
       (B) any official of the Government of Belarus who is 
     personally and substantially involved in the suppression of 
     freedom in Belarus, including judges and prosecutors; and
       (C) any other individual determined by the Secretary of 
     State (or the Secretary's designee) to be personally and 
     substantially involved in the formulation or execution of the 
     policies of the Lukashenka regime that are in contradiction 
     of internationally recognized human rights standards.

      TITLE XVI--ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN PEACE ENHANCEMENT ACT OF 2003

     SEC. 1601. SHORT TITLE.

       This title may be cited as the ``Israeli-Palestinian Peace 
     Enhancement Act of 2003''.

     SEC. 1602. FINDINGS.

       Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) The security of the State of Israel is a major and 
     enduring national security interest of the United States.
       (2) A lasting peace in the Middle East region can only take 
     root in an atmosphere free of violence and terrorism.
       (3) The Palestinian people have been ill-served by leaders 
     who, by resorting to violence and terrorism to pursue their 
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     brought economic and personal hardship to their people and 
     brought a halt to efforts seeking a negotiated settlement of 
     the conflict.
       (4) The United States has an interest in a Middle East in 
     which two states, Israel and Palestine, will live side by 
     side in peace and security.
       (5) In his speech of June 24, 2002, and in other 
     statements, President George W. Bush outlined a comprehensive 
     vision of the possibilities of peace in the Middle East 
     region following a change in Palestinian leadership.
       (6) A stable and peaceful Palestinian state is necessary to 
     achieve the security that Israel longs for, and Israel should 
     take concrete steps to support the emergence of a viable, 
     credible Palestinian state.
       (7) The Palestinian state must be a reformed, peaceful, and 
     democratic state that abandons forever the use of terror.
       (8) On April 29, 2003, the Palestinian Legislative Council 
     confirmed in office, by a vote of 51 yeas, 18 nays, and 3 
     abstentions, the Palestinian Authority's first prime 
     minister, Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), and his cabinet.
       (9) In his remarks prior to the vote of the Palestinian 
     Legislative Council, Mr. Abbas declared: ``The government 
     will concentrate on the question of security . . . The 
     unauthorized possession of weapons, with its direct threat to 
     the security of the population, is a major concern that will 
     be relentlessly addressed . . . There will be no other 
     decision-making authority except for the Palestinian 
     Authority.''.
       (10) In those remarks, Mr. Abbas further stated: ``We 
     denounce terrorism by any party and in all its forms both 
     because of our religious and moral traditions and because 
     we are convinced that such methods do not lend support to 
     a just cause like ours but rather destroy it.''.
       (11) Israel has repeatedly indicated its willingness to 
     make painful concessions to achieve peace once there is a 
     partner for peace on the Palestinian side.

     SEC. 1603. PURPOSES.

       The purposes of this title are--
       (1) to express the sense of Congress with respect to United 
     States recognition of a Palestinian state; and
       (2) to demonstrate United States willingness to provide 
     substantial economic and humanitarian assistance, and to 
     support large-scale multilateral assistance, after the 
     Palestinians have achieved the reforms outlined by President 
     Bush and have achieved peace with the State of Israel.

     SEC. 1604. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

       It is the sense of Congress that--
       (1) peace between Israel and the Palestinians cannot be 
     negotiated until the Palestinian system of government has 
     been transformed along the lines outlined in President Bush's 
     June 24, 2002, speech;
       (2) substantial United States and international economic 
     assistance will be needed after the Palestinians have 
     achieved the reforms described in section 620K(c)(2) of the 
     Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (as added by section 1706 of 
     this Act) and have made a lasting and secure peace with 
     Israel;
       (3) the Palestinian people merit commendation on the 
     confirmation of the Palestinian Authority's first prime 
     minister, Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), and his cabinet;
       (4) the new Palestinian administration urgently should take 
     the necessary security-related steps to allow for 
     implementation of a performance-based road map to resolve the 
     Israeli-Palestinian conflict;
       (5) the United States Administration should work vigorously 
     toward the goal of two states living side-by-side in peace 
     within secure and internationally-recognized boundaries free 
     from threats or acts of force; and
       (6) the United States has a vital national security 
     interest in a permanent, comprehensive, and just resolution 
     of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and particularly the 
     Palestinian-Israeli conflict, based on the terms of United 
     Nations Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338.

     SEC. 1605. RECOGNITION OF A PALESTINIAN STATE.

       It is the sense of Congress that a Palestinian state should 
     not be recognized by the United States until the President 
     determines that--
       (1) a new leadership of a Palestinian governing entity, not 
     compromised by terrorism, has been elected and taken office; 
     and
       (2) the newly-elected Palestinian governing entity--
       (A) has demonstrated a firm and tangible commitment to 
     peaceful coexistence with the State of Israel and to ending 
     anti-Israel incitement, including the cessation of all 
     officially sanctioned or funded anti-Israel incitement;
       (B) has taken appropriate measures to counter terrorism and 
     terrorist financing in the West Bank and Gaza, including the 
     dismantling of terrorist infrastructures and the confiscation 
     of unlawful weaponry;
       (C) has established a new Palestinian security entity that 
     is fully cooperating with the appropriate Israeli security 
     organizations;
       (D) has achieved exclusive authority and responsibility for 
     governing the national affairs of a Palestinian state, has 
     taken effective steps to ensure democracy, the rule of law, 
     and an independent judiciary, and has adopted other reforms 
     ensuring transparent and accountable governance; and
       (E) has taken effective steps to ensure that its education 
     system promotes the acceptance of Israel's existence and of 
     peace with Israel and actively discourages anti-Israel 
     incitement.

     SEC. 1606. LIMITATION ON ASSISTANCE TO A PALESTINIAN STATE.

       Chapter 1 of part III of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
     (22 U.S.C. 2351 et seq.) is amended--
       (1) by redesignating the second section 620G (as added by 
     section 149 of Public Law 104-164 (110 Stat. 1436)) as 
     section 620J; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following new section:

     ``SEC. 620K. LIMITATION ON ASSISTANCE TO A PALESTINIAN STATE.

       ``(a) Limitation.--
       ``(1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law, assistance may be provided under this Act or any other 
     provision of law to the government of a Palestinian state 
     only during a period for which a certification described in 
     subsection (c) is in effect. The limitation contained in the 
     preceding sentence shall not apply (A) to humanitarian or 
     development assistance that is provided through 
     nongovernmental organizations for the benefit of the 
     Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza, or (B) to 
     assistance that is intended to reform the Palestinian 
     Authority and affiliated institutions, or a newly elected 
     Palestinian governing entity, in order to help meet the 
     requirements contained in subparagraphs (A) through (H) of 
     subsection (c)(2) or to address the matters described in 
     subparagraphs (A) through (E) of section 1705(2) of the 
     Israeli-Palestinian Peace Enhancement Act of 2003.
       ``(2) Waiver.--The President may waive the limitation of 
     the first sentence of paragraph (1) if the President 
     determines and certifies to the Committee on International 
     Relations of the House of Representatives and the Committee 
     on Foreign Relations of the Senate that it is vital to the 
     national interest of the United States to do so.
       ``(b) Congressional Notification.--
       ``(1) In general.--Assistance made available under this Act 
     or any other provision of law to a Palestinian state may not 
     be provided until 15 days after the date on which the 
     President has provided notice thereof to the Committee on 
     International Relations and the Committee on Appropriations 
     of the House of Representatives and to the Committee on 
     Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
     Senate in accordance with the procedures applicable to 
     reprogramming notifications under section 634A(a) of this 
     Act.
       ``(2) Sunset.--Paragraph (1) shall cease to be effective 
     beginning ten years after the date on which notice is first 
     provided under such paragraph.
       ``(c) Certification.--A certification described in this 
     subsection is a certification transmitted by the President to 
     Congress that--
       ``(1) a binding international peace agreement exists 
     between Israel and the Palestinians that--
       ``(A) was freely signed by both parties;
       ``(B) guarantees both parties' commitment to a border 
     between two states that constitutes a secure and 
     internationally recognized boundary for both states, with no 
     remaining territorial claims;
       ``(C) provides a permanent resolution for both Palestinian 
     refugees and Jewish refugees from Arab countries; and
       ``(D) includes a renunciation of all remaining Palestinian 
     claims against Israel through provisions that commit both 
     sides to the ``end of the conflict''; and
       ``(2) the new Palestinian government--
       ``(A) has been democratically elected through free and fair 
     elections, has exclusive authority and responsibility for 
     governing the national affairs of the Palestinian state, and 
     has achieved the reforms outlined by President Bush in his 
     June 24, 2002, speech;
       ``(B) has completely renounced the use of violence against 
     the State of Israel and its citizens, is vigorously 
     attempting to prevent any acts of terrorism against Israel 
     and its citizens, and punishes the perpetrators of such acts 
     in a manner commensurate with their actions;
       ``(C) has dismantled, and terminated the funding of, any 
     group within its territory that conducts terrorism against 
     Israel;
       ``(D) is engaging in ongoing and extensive security 
     cooperation with the State of Israel;
       ``(E) refrains from any officially sanctioned or funded 
     statement or act designed to incite Palestinians or others 
     against the State of Israel and its citizens;
       ``(F) has an elected leadership not compromised by terror;
       ``(G) is demilitarized; and
       ``(H) has no alliances or agreements that pose a threat to 
     the security of the State of Israel.
       ``(d) Recertifications.--Not later than 90 days after the 
     date on which the President transmits to Congress an initial 
     certification under subsection (c), and every 6 months 
     thereafter for the 10-year period beginning on the date of 
     transmittal of such certification--
       ``(1) the President shall transmit to Congress a 
     recertification that the requirements contained in subsection 
     (c) are continuing to be met; or
       ``(2) if the President is unable to make such a 
     recertification, the President shall transmit to Congress a 
     report that contains the reasons therefor.
       ``(e) Rule of Construction.--A certification under 
     subsection (c) shall be deemed to be in effect beginning on 
     the day after the last day of the 10-year period described in 
     subsection (d) unless the President subsequently determines 
     that the requirements contained in subsection (c) are no 
     longer being met and the President transmits to Congress a 
     report that contains the reasons therefor.''.

     SEC. 1607. AUTHORIZATION OF ASSISTANCE TO A PALESTINIAN 
                   STATE.

       Chapter 1 of part III of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
     (22 U.S.C. 2351 et seq.), as amended by section 1706, is 
     further amended by adding at the end the following new 
     section:

     ``SEC. 620L. AUTHORIZATION OF ASSISTANCE TO A PALESTINIAN 
                   STATE.

       ``(a) Assistance.--The President is authorized to provide 
     assistance to a Palestinian state in accordance with the 
     requirements of this section.

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       ``(b) Activities To Be Supported.--Assistance provided 
     under subsection (a) shall be used to support activities 
     within a Palestinian state to substantially improve the 
     economy and living conditions of the Palestinians by, among 
     other things, providing for economic development in the West 
     Bank and Gaza, continuing to promote democracy and the rule 
     of law, developing water resources, assisting in security 
     cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians, and helping 
     with the compensation and rehabilitation of Palestinian 
     refugees.
       ``(c) Authorization of Appropriations.--Of the amounts made 
     available to carry out chapter 4 of part II of this Act for a 
     fiscal year, there are authorized to be appropriated to the 
     President to carry out subsections (a) and (b) such sums as 
     may be necessary for each such fiscal year.
       ``(d) Coordination of International Assistance.--
       ``(1)  In general.--Beginning on the date on which the 
     President transmits to Congress an initial certification 
     under section 620K(c) of this Act, the Secretary of State 
     shall seek to convene one or more donors conferences to gain 
     commitments from other countries, multilateral institutions, 
     and nongovernmental organizations to provide economic 
     assistance to Palestinians to ensure that such commitments to 
     provide assistance are honored in a timely manner, to ensure 
     that there is coordination of assistance among the United 
     States and such other countries, multilateral institutions, 
     and nongovernmental organizations, to ensure that the 
     assistance provided to Palestinians is used for the purposes 
     for which is was provided, and to ensure that other 
     countries, multilateral institutions, and nongovernmental 
     organizations do not provide assistance to Palestinians 
     through entities that are designated as terrorist 
     organizations under United States law.
       ``(2)  Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this section, and on an annual basis 
     thereafter, the Secretary of State shall prepare and submit 
     to the Committee on International Relations and the Committee 
     on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
     Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on 
     Appropriations of the Senate a report that describes the 
     activities undertaken to meet the requirements of paragraph 
     (1), including a description of amounts committed, and the 
     amounts provided, to a Palestinian state or Palestinians 
     during the reporting period by each country and 
     organization.''.

        TITLE XVII--MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN ASSISTANCE PROVISIONS

     SEC. 1701. ADDITIONAL AUTHORITIES RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL 
                   NARCOTICS CONTROL ASSISTANCE.

       Notwithstanding any other provision of law, assistance 
     provided by the United States Government to support 
     international efforts to combat aerial trafficking of illicit 
     narcotics under chapter 8 of part I of the Foreign Assistance 
     Act of 1961 or under any other provision of law shall include 
     the authority to interdict illicit arms in connection with 
     the trafficking of illicit narcotics.

     SEC. 1702. UNITED STATES OPIUM ERADICATION PROGRAM IN 
                   COLOMBIA.

       Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, the Secretary of State, acting through the 
     Department of State's Narcotics Affairs Section (NAS) in 
     Bogota, Colombia, shall ensure that all pilots participating 
     in the United States opium eradication program in Colombia 
     are Colombians and are fully trained, qualified, and 
     experienced pilots, with preference provided to individuals 
     who are members of the Colombian National Police.

     SEC. 1703. COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.

       Of the amounts made available for development assistance 
     under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, not less than 
     $2,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2004 and 2005 are 
     authorized to be made available to finance projects among the 
     United States, Israel, and developing countries in Africa 
     under the Cooperative Development Program.

     SEC. 1704. WEST BANK AND GAZA PROGRAM.

       (a) Oversight.--For fiscal year 2004, the Secretary of 
     State shall certify to the appropriate committees of Congress 
     not later than 30 days prior to the initial obligation of 
     funds for the West Bank and Gaza that procedures have been 
     established to assure the Comptroller General will have 
     access to appropriate United States financial information in 
     order to review the use of United States assistance for the 
     West Bank and Gaza funded under chapter 4 of part II of the 
     Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (``Economic Support Fund'').
       (b) Vetting.--Prior to any obligation of funds authorized 
     to be appropriated to carry out chapter 4 of part II of the 
     Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for assistance for the West 
     Bank and Gaza, the Secretary of State shall take all 
     appropriate steps to ensure that such assistance is not 
     provided to or through any individual or entity that the 
     Secretary knows, or has reason to believe, advocates, plans, 
     sponsors, engages in, or has engaged in, terrorist activity. 
     The Secretary of State shall, as appropriate, establish 
     procedures specifying the steps to be taken in carrying out 
     this subsection.
       (c) Audits.--
       (1) In general.--The Administrator of the United States 
     Agency for International Development shall ensure that 
     independent audits of all contractors and grantees, and 
     significant subcontractors and subgrantees, under the West 
     Bank and Gaza Program, are conducted at least on an annual 
     basis to ensure, among other things, compliance with this 
     section.
       (2) Audits by inspector general of usaid.--Of the funds 
     authorized to be appropriated by this Act to carry out 
     chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
     that are made available for assistance for the West Bank and 
     Gaza, up to $1,000,000 may be used by the Office of the 
     Inspector General of the United States Agency for 
     International Development for audits, inspections, and other 
     activities in furtherance of the requirements of paragraph 
     (1). Such funds are in addition to funds otherwise available 
     for such purposes.

     SEC. 1705. ANNUAL HUMAN RIGHTS COUNTRY REPORTS ON INCITEMENT 
                   TO ACTS OF DISCRIMINATION.

       (a) Countries Receiving Economic Assistance.--Section 
     116(d) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 
     2151n(d)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (9), by striking ``and'' at the end;
       (2) in paragraph (10), by striking the period at the end 
     and inserting ``; and''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(11)(A) wherever applicable, in a separate section with a 
     separate heading, a description of the nature and extent of--
       ``(i) propaganda in government and government-controlled 
     media and other sources, including government-produced 
     educational materials and textbooks, that attempt to justify 
     or promote racial hatred or incite acts of violence against 
     any race or people; and
       ``(ii) complicity or involvement in the creation of such 
     propaganda or incitement of acts of violence against any 
     race; and
       ``(B) a description of the actions, if any, taken by the 
     government of the country to eliminate such propaganda or 
     incitement.''.
       (b) Countries Receiving Security Assistance.--Section 
     502B(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 
     2304(b)) is amended by inserting after the eighth sentence 
     the following: ``Each report under this section shall also 
     include wherever applicable, in a separate section with a 
     separate heading, a description of (i) the nature and extent 
     of (I) propaganda in government and government-controlled 
     media and other sources, including government-produced 
     educational materials and textbooks, that attempt to justify 
     or promote racial hatred or incite acts of violence against 
     any race, and (II) complicity or involvement in the creation 
     of such propaganda or incitement of acts of violence against 
     any race or people, and (ii) a description of the actions, if 
     any, taken by the government of the country to eliminate such 
     propaganda or incitement.''.

     SEC. 1706. ASSISTANCE TO EAST TIMOR.

       Section 632(b)(1) of the Foreign Relations Authorization 
     Act, Fiscal Year 2003 (Public Law 107-228) is amended by 
     striking ``the fiscal year 2003'' and inserting ``each of the 
     fiscal years 2003, 2004, and 2005''.

     SEC. 1707. SUPPORT FOR DEMOCRACY-BUILDING EFFORTS FOR CUBA.

       (a) Statement of Policy.--It is the policy of the United 
     States to support those individuals and groups who struggle 
     for freedom and democracy in Cuba, including human rights 
     dissidents, independent journalists, independent labor 
     leaders, and other opposition groups.
       (b) Authorization of Appropriations.--
       (1) In general.--There are authorized to be appropriated to 
     the President to carry out section 109(a) of Public Law 104-
     114 (22 U.S.C. 6039(a)) $15,000,000 for each of the fiscal 
     years 2004 and 2005.
       (2) Additional authorities.--Amounts appropriated pursuant 
     to the authorization of appropriations under subsection (a)--
       (A) are authorized to remain available until expended; and
       (B) are in addition to amounts otherwise available for such 
     purposes.

     SEC. 1708. AMENDMENT TO THE AFGHANISTAN FREEDOM SUPPORT ACT 
                   OF 2002.

       The Afghanistan Freedom Support Act of 2002 (22 U.S.C. 7501 
     et seq.) is amended--
       (1) in section 103(a) by striking ``section 512 of Public 
     Law 107-115 or any similar'' and inserting ``any other''; and
       (1) in section 207(b) by striking ``section 512 of Public 
     Law 107-115 or any similar'' and inserting ``any other''.

     SEC. 1709. CONGO BASIN FOREST PARTNERSHIP.

       (a) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized 
     to be appropriated to the President to carry out the Congo 
     Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP) program $18,600,000 for each 
     of the fiscal years 2004 and 2005. Of the amounts 
     appropriated pursuant to the authorization of appropriations 
     under the preceding sentence for a fiscal year, $16,000,000 
     is authorized to be made available to the Central Africa 
     Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE) of the United 
     States Agency for International Development.
       (b) Availability.--Amounts appropriated pursuant to the 
     authorization of appropriations under subsection (a) are 
     authorized to remain available until expended.

     SEC. 1710. COMBATTING THE PIRACY OF UNITED STATES COPYRIGHTED 
                   MATERIALS.

       (a) Authorization of Appropriations.--In addition to such 
     amounts as may otherwise be authorized to be appropriated for 
     such purpose, there are authorized to be appropriated for the 
     Department of State, $10,000,000 to carry out the following 
     activities in countries that are not members of the 
     Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD):
       (1) Provision of equipment and training for foreign law 
     enforcement, including in the interpretation of intellectual 
     property laws.
       (2) Training for judges and prosecutors, including in the 
     interpretation of intellectual property laws.
       (3) Assistance in complying with obligations under 
     appropriate international copyright and intellectual property 
     treaties and agreements.
       (b) Consultation with World Intellectual Property 
     Organization.--In carrying out subsection (a), the Department 
     of State should make every effort to consult with, and 
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     appropriate assistance to, the World Intellectual Property 
     Organization to promote the integration of non-OECD countries 
     into the global intellectual property system.

     SEC. 1711. ASSISTANCE FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT FORCES IN CERTAIN 
                   FOREIGN COUNTRIES.

       Notwithstanding section 660 of the Foreign Assistance Act 
     of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2420), the Administrator of the United 
     States Agency for International Development is authorized to 
     provide assistance for fiscal years 2004 and 2005 to--
       (1) law enforcement agencies of the Government of India for 
     the purposes of enhancing their capacity for medical-first-
     response and search-and-rescue operations after a natural 
     disaster, improving the access of women to justice, and 
     combating the trafficking of persons; and
       (2) the new police force of Northern Ireland for the 
     purpose of providing computer-based, human-rights and other 
     professional training, and the law enforcement agencies of 
     the Republic of Ireland (ROI) for the purposes of fostering 
     greater cooperation and communication between the police 
     force of the Republic of Ireland and the new police force of 
     Northern Ireland, as recommended by the Patten Commission.

     SEC. 1712. HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY FUND.

       Section 664(c)(1) of the Freedom Investment Act of 2002 
     (subtitle E of title VI of division A of Public Law 107-228; 
     22 U.S.C. 2151n-2(c)(1)) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``for fiscal year 2003'' and inserting 
     ``for each of the fiscal years 2003 through 2005''; and
       (2) by striking ``$21,500,000 is'' and inserting 
     ``$21,500,000 for fiscal year 2003, $24,000,000 for fiscal 
     year 2004, and such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 
     2005 are''.

     SEC. 1713. ENHANCED POLICE TRAINING.

       Section 660(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 
     U.S.C. 2420(b)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (7), by striking the period at the end and 
     inserting ``; or''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(8) with respect to assistance provided to enhance the 
     effectiveness and accountability of civilian police authority 
     through training and technical assistance in internationally 
     recognized human rights, the rule of law, strategic planning, 
     and counter-narcotics, and through the promotion of civilian 
     police roles that support democratic governance, including 
     programs to combat corruption and the trafficking of persons, 
     particularly by organized crime, prevent conflict, and foster 
     improved police relations with the communities in which they 
     serve.''.

     SEC. 1714. PROMOTING A SECURE AND DEMOCRATIC AFGHANISTAN.

       (a) Findings.--The Congress finds that--
       (1) the United States has a vital interest in promoting 
     Afghanistan's transition from chaos, civil war, and disorder 
     to an increasingly prosperous democratic state, safe and 
     secure with its neighbors, respecting human rights, 
     particularly the rights of women and girls, dedicated to the 
     liberty, literacy, and enrichment of its citizens, and 
     serving as a model for other countries;
       (2) basic security in the major cities and along key 
     transportation routes is critical to the reconstruction and 
     development of Afghanistan, including fostering 
     implementation of the Bonn Agreement, achieving progress 
     towards a democratic and tolerant government, and encouraging 
     international private investment;
       (3) Afghanistan and its people remain under serious threat 
     from terrorism, insurgency, widespread crime, banditry, 
     intimidation, rape, and suppression of minorities and women, 
     and other grave violations of human rights continue to occur, 
     especially in areas that do not have a routine presence of 
     international security personnel;
       (4) lethal clashes continue between the private armies of 
     warlords, attacks against Afghan civilians and officials and 
     United States and international organization personnel are on 
     the rise, and threats against civilians and whole villages 
     not to cooperate with Americans or the central government are 
     now routine;
       (5) the growth, production, and trafficking of Afghan opium 
     and its derivatives pose a serious threat to international 
     peace and security and efforts toward reconstruction in 
     Afghanistan;
       (6) recruitment and training of the Afghan National Army 
     and the Afghan National Police are seriously behind schedule 
     and will not be at full strength for several years, leaving 
     the central government and Afghan citizens vulnerable to the 
     depredations of terrorists, insurgents, and the private 
     armies of warlords;
       (7) although the 4,500 soldiers of the International 
     Security Assistance Force (ISAF) have provided much-needed 
     security for the citizens of Kabul, it is not within their 
     mandate or power to promote security to other areas, and 
     human rights abuses are continuing in areas in and around 
     Kabul where ISAF is not present;
       (8) vastly disproportionate numbers of refugees returning 
     from neighboring countries have gone to Kabul because of the 
     security provided by ISAF and the insecurity of their home 
     areas, overwhelming Kabul and far exceeding its capacity for 
     shelter, food, and employment;
       (9) NATO has recently decided to take over responsibility 
     for a limited ISAF, a welcome development that will not, 
     unfortunately, provide any additional security in Kabul or 
     elsewhere;
       (10) the United States has stated on numerous occasions 
     that it does not oppose the expansion of ISAF, but that 
     heretofore other countries have not expressed a willingness 
     to participate in an expanded force;
       (11) the United States has not itself demonstrated a 
     commitment to expansion of ISAF or a similar international 
     security or peacekeeping force, a commitment to leadership 
     that other nations may more likely follow;
       (12) the Secretary of Defense has announced that the combat 
     phase of the war in Afghanistan has ended, and that the 
     United States will be focusing its efforts on a 
     reconstruction phase utilizing lightly-armed, platoon-sized 
     Provincial Reconstruction Teams to provide security for 
     reconstruction efforts, rather than an expanded international 
     peacekeeping or patrolling security force;
       (13) the Provincial Reconstruction Teams may prove 
     inadequate to provide a significant level of security to 
     their regions, and are not tasked to secure the major 
     transportation routes which are critical to the economic 
     revival of Afghanistan;
       (14) United States and foreign nongovernmental aid workers 
     and Afghan civilian aid workers are at great risk of being 
     robbed, beaten, and killed in areas of Afghanistan that are 
     not being patrolled by United States forces or Afghan central 
     government forces;
       (15) such acts of theft, intimidation, and murder against 
     foreign aid and Afghan civilian workers are occurring with 
     increasing frequency, and are often deliberately committed by 
     Taliban and other insurgent and rebel forces with the 
     intention of creating sufficient terror to undermine and 
     arrest any efforts to rebuild Afghanistan into a peaceful, 
     democratic, and prosperous nation that prohibits terrorism 
     and tyranny;
       (16) the report of the Inspector General of the United 
     States Agency for International Development (USAID) confirms 
     that USAID workers are virtual captives in their compounds, 
     able to venture out into the countryside for brief periods 
     and only under heavy armed escort, conditions which are 
     counterproductive to their mission of assisting the people of 
     Afghanistan;
       (17) the Taliban and al-Qaeda may believe they only have to 
     create enough terror and uncertainty in the country to 
     undermine the creation of strong representative institutions, 
     and wait until the United States leaves to again create 
     chaos, exploit tribal rivalries, and plunge Afghanistan back 
     into chaos;
       (18) failure to secure a peaceful and democratic 
     Afghanistan will diminish the credibility of efforts by the 
     United States and the international community to promote 
     peace and democracy elsewhere in the Muslim world; and
       (19) unless general security can be provided in the major 
     population areas, strategic highways, and border crossings 
     and chokepoints, the goals for which the war in Afghanistan 
     was fought may be lost and the efforts and lives spent in the 
     attempt to liberate and rebuild Afghanistan may be wasted.
       (b) Security Policy.--
       (1) Security along highways.--The President shall take 
     immediate steps to ensure that there is adequate security 
     along the length of highways connecting major Afghan urban 
     centers in order to terminate and deter acts of banditry, 
     illegal checkpoints, human rights abuses, terrorism, and 
     intimidation against Afghan and foreign civilians and 
     military personnel.
       (2) Disarmament, etc. of afghan militias.--The President 
     shall take immediate steps to support directly the 
     disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration of Afghan 
     militias and irregulars that are not formally part of the 
     Afghan National Army or under the direct control of the 
     central government in Afghanistan.
       (c) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of the Congress 
     that the President should take steps to implement section 
     206(d) of the Afghanistan Freedom Support Act of 2002 (Public 
     Law 107-327) to expand significantly the International 
     Security Assistance Force, or take such other steps as may be 
     necessary, such as increasing the number and force levels of 
     United States Provincial Reconstruction Teams, so as to--
       (1) increase the area in which security is provided and 
     undertake vital tasks related to promoting security, such as 
     disarming warlords militias and irregulars;
       (2) deter criminal activity, including rape, robbery, and 
     intimidation of civilians; and
       (3) safeguard highways in order to allow governmental and 
     nongovernmental assistance and reconstruction personnel to 
     move more freely in the countryside to provide humanitarian 
     relief and rebuild Afghanistan.

     SEC. 1715. GRANTS TO THE AFRICA SOCIETY.

       (a) Grants to the Africa Society.--For any fiscal year, the 
     Secretary of State is authorized to make grants to the Africa 
     Society to carry out programs and activities that advance 
     United States interests and values in Africa through public 
     and private partnerships that facilitate the continent's 
     political transition to more open democratic societies, 
     support equitable economic growth through trade and 
     investment, support efforts to promote transparency and 
     openness through the public and private sectors, encourage 
     civil society growth and development, and promote awareness 
     of all Americans about Africa, consistent with a grant 
     agreement under such terms as the Secretary of State 
     considers necessary and appropriate.
       (b) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized 
     to be appropriated to carry out this section $1,000,000 for 
     the fiscal year 2004 and such sums as may be necessary for 
     the fiscal year 2005.

  The CHAIRMAN pro tempore. No amendment to the committee amendment in 
the nature of a substitute shall be in order except those printed in 
House Report 108-206 and amendments en bloc described in section 2 of 
the resolution.
  Each amendment printed in the report shall be offered only in the 
order printed (except as specified in section 3), may be offered only 
by a Member designated in the report, shall be considered read, shall 
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time specified in the report, equally divided and controlled by the 
proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall 
not be subject to a demand for division of the question.
  It shall be in order at any time for the chairman of the Committee on 
International Relations or his designee to offer amendments en bloc 
consisting of amendments printed in the report not earlier considered. 
Amendments en bloc shall be considered read, shall be debatable for 20 
minutes, equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking 
minority member or their designees, shall not be subject to amendment, 
and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question.
  The original proponent of an amendment included in amendments en bloc 
may insert a statement in the Congressional Record immediately before 
disposition of the amendments en bloc.
  The chairman of the Committee of the Whole may recognize for 
consideration any amendment out of the order printed, but not sooner 
than 1 hour after the chairman of the Committee on International 
Relations or a designee prospectively announces from the floor a 
request to that effect.
  It is now in order to consider amendment No. 1 printed in House 
Report 108-206.


           Amendment No. 1 Offered by Mr. Smith of New Jersey

  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Madam Chairman, I offer an amendment 
cosponsored by the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Oberstar) and the 
gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde) to strike the Crowley language in 
the State Department bill under consideration.
  The CHAIRMAN pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment No. 1 offered by Mr. Smith of New Jersey:
       In section 116(a) of the bill--
       (1) after the first dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by 
     $25,000,000)''; and
       (2) after the second dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by 
     $25,000,000)''.
       Strike subsection (e) of section 116 of the bill.

  The CHAIRMAN pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 316, the 
gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith) and the gentleman from New York 
(Mr. Crowley) each will control 20 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith).
  Mr. CROWLEY. Madam Chairman, I ask unanimous consent that the 
gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Greenwood) be allowed to control half 
of the time in opposition to the Smith amendment and be able to yield 
that time to others as he sees fit.
  The CHAIRMAN pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from New York?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Madam Chairman, I yield myself such time as 
I may consume.
  Madam Chairman, just 10 months ago a sweeping, comprehensive 
reiteration of China's Draconian population control program went into 
effect in all of China. Sadly, the new law is as harsh, brutal, and 
violent as ever. Lest anyone be deceived that Beijing is somehow easing 
up on coercive population control, it is all there in the new law, the 
infamous one-child-per-couple policy, the crippling fines on those 
women who attempt to resist, and severe punishment to those women who 
have a child without explicit government permission.
  Since 1979, the U.N. population fund has been the chief apologist for 
China's coercive one-child-per-couple policy. By its words and by its 
actions, the UNFPA has chosen to partner with those who oppress women. 
The UNFPA has funded, provided crucial technical support and, most 
importantly, provided cover for massive crimes of forced abortion and 
involuntary sterilization. Tens of millions of children have been 
slaughtered, their mothers robbed of their children by the state. The 
UNFPA has aggressively defended this barbaric policy that makes 
brothers and sisters illegal and makes women the pawns of population 
control cadres.
  One terrifying consequence of China's policy is the disproportionate 
number of girl murders. According to the State Department's Country 
Reports on Human Rights Practices in China, currently there may be as 
many as 100 million more men than women, clearly a direct result of the 
one-child-per-couple policy.
  Time and again, Madam Chairman, the officials at the UNFPA have 
defended the indefensible. The former executive director of the UNFPA, 
Nafis Sadik, said, ``China has every reason to feel proud of and 
pleased with its remarkable achievements made in its family planning 
policy. The country could offer its experience and social expertise to 
help other countries.'' God forbid. Let them export the one-child-per-
couple policy which relies on coercion to achieve its ends? I hope not! 
On CBS ``Nightwatch,'' the executive director of the UNFPA said, ``The 
UNFPA firmly believes, as does the government of the People's Republic 
of China, that their program is a total voluntary program.'' Madam 
Chairman, that is unmitigated nonsense and that is a lie.
  UNFPA Beijing representative Sven Burmester said and I quote, and 
please listen to this. This is the U.N.'s man in Beijing:
  ``China has had the most successful family planning policy in the 
history of mankind.'' That does not sound like a criticism of coercion 
or involuntary or forced abortion. That sounds like a partner defending 
a fellow partner gushing with praise. Of course it ``works,'' and of 
course the Chinese program is ``successful.'' Coercion works every day 
of the week.
  Forced abortion, I would remind my colleagues, was construed to be a 
crime against humanity at the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal. It is no 
less of a crime today as it is practiced by China with its partners in 
that crime, the UNFPA.
  Madam Chairman, having failed the important review required by the 
Kemp-Kasten anticoercion law, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Crowley) 
today is now attempting to gut, to weaken, to rig the 18-year-old Kemp-
Kasten law by requiring that it only be operative if an organization 
``knowingly and intentionally'' advances or expands coerced abortion or 
forced sterilization. If we adopt the Crowley language, enforcement of 
the current anticoercive law would be dead. Clearly, the whole idea 
behind this is that the money will flow to the UNFPA unfettered because 
with this standard, the weakened standard, there is little doubt that 
the money will flow.
  U.S. investigators, if we adopted this language that is in the 
underlying bill, would now be required to investigate UNFPA personnel 
and ascertain their knowledge and their intent: What did they know and 
when did they know it? Given UNFPA's deplorable track record of denying 
that coercion even exists in China, it would be nearly impossible to 
prove intent. Even the hard-liners in China, in the government, deny 
coercion or any knowledge of coercion or intent to compel abortions.
  I have made three human rights trips to China. I met with the head of 
China's population control program, Peng Peiyun. Madame Peng Peiyun 
told me over and over in that lengthy conversation that there was no 
coercion in China and then she backed that up by citing UNFPA's 
participation in the program and UNFPA's public statements where UNFPA 
leaders have defended and said there is no coercion in China. For the 
past 24 years, again despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, 
UNFPA has declared China's program to be, quote, purely voluntary, free 
of coercion and a model to be emulated by other countries. Let us not 
forget that proving intent, this weakening standard offered by the 
gentleman from New York, is usually the stuff of criminal prosecutions, 
not grant-making.
  I would point out to my colleagues, also, if we applied the misguided 
Crowley standard to any other human rights standard, human trafficking 
or religious persecution, we would seriously undercut, even destroy, 
our efforts to mitigate these abuses around the world.

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  Crowley sets a dangerous precedent in human rights law.
  Let me just point out to my colleagues I am the prime sponsor of the 
Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000. Pursuant to that law, 
Secretary Powell recently placed 15 countries on what we call the tier 
3 sanctions list. Those sanctions will soon be imposed. Nowhere in the 
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the Secretary of State to divine the intent of the officials or whether 
or not they knowingly engaged in these human rights abuses. To give the 
oppressors that out, that escape clause, would be a gross betrayal of 
the victims.
  In like manner, I respectfully submit we betray the victims of forced 
abortion and forced sterilization, millions of Chinese women, millions 
of Chinese children, when we give the oppressors or the friends of the 
oppressors this engraved invitation to continue denying and obfuscating 
the truth and, of course, enabling this kind of carnage to go on.
  I ask Members to support the Smith-Oberstar-Hyde amendment.
  Madam Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CROWLEY. Madam Chairman, I yield myself 2 minutes.
  Madam Chairman, the provisions the gentleman seeks to strike does not 
promote abortion, forced sterilization or any of the other horrible 
things opponents of UNFPA say it will do. Madam Chairman, the 
underlying Crowley-Lee provision funds the U.N. Population Fund, UNFPA, 
in its work in over 141 countries to provide for child and maternal 
health, child survival, HIV/AIDS prevention, and family planning.
  Nearly 600,000 women die each year from causes related to pregnancy. 
Ninety-nine percent of those women are in the developing world. Many of 
these deaths could be prevented through maternal care and through 
family planning to space those pregnancies.
  The President has finished up a 5-day, five-country tour in Africa 
where he talked about democracy and economic opportunity, but what he 
did not talk about were the empowerment and equality of women. When 
women have the ability and access to contraception to plan their 
families, their economic livelihoods improve. In Bangladesh, I saw 
UNFPA working with women in the garment industry, educating them 
without contraception and showing women how limiting their births can 
improve their economic situation. In Malawi, I saw UNFPA work with a 
rural birth assistant, providing clean razor blades to cut the 
umbilical cord, soap and kerosine for a lantern to help rural women 
deliver their babies safely.
  Let me say what I have not seen, what UNFPA is not doing. UNFPA does 
not provide for abortion. I want to remind my colleagues that no U.S. 
funding can go to any group that provides for abortions. The gentleman 
from Illinois (Chairman Hyde) passed his amendment in 1984, and he 
knows it is still the law today. UNFPA does not engage in coercion of 
any kind.
  Opponents will say that this provision will gut human rights and will 
say that UNFPA has been engaged in China. In fact, the Bush 
administration, which at first supported UNFPA by requesting $25 
million for UNFPA and funding UNFPA's work in Afghanistan, abruptly 
changed course when it refused to release $34 million in funding, 
citing UNFPA's work in 31 counties in China.
  Madam Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. GREENWOOD. Madam Chairman, I yield myself 2 minutes.
  Madam Chairman, since 1969 when the program was developed with the 
help of the United States of America, United Nations Family Planning 
Fund has met an incredible need. That need is that in developing 
countries in Africa and Asia and Central and South America, throughout 
the world, women find themselves hopelessly enmeshed in poverty without 
access to healthcare and without access to family planning services; 
and the result of that, as the gentleman from New York (Mr. Crowley) 
said, they have more pregnancies than they can bear physically. They 
have more children than they can feed, and their children are condemned 
to another cycle of poverty. United Nations Family Planning Agency in 
160 countries meets that need so women around the world have access as 
Americans do.
  The gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith) wants to cut that program 
in half with this amendment, and the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. 
Smith) wants to make sure that in 159 of those countries access to this 
service is cut because in one country, China, something terrible 
happens and that is coercive abortions. But when the President sent his 
team over there to China to find out what UNFPA's role was, they said 
we find no evidence that UNFPA has knowingly supported or participated 
in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary 
sterilization in the PRC. In fact, it is the UNFPA that is the most 
effective organization in preventing that from happening, in getting 
the Chinese to move towards education, to move towards contraception, 
and away from coercive practices.
  If we support the amendment, what we do is we cut off that funding 
not only to the agency that is trying to enlighten Chinese family 
planning programs, but we cut it off to 159 other countries, none of 
whom uses money for anything coercive nor for abortion at all.
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Madam Chairman, I yield myself 40 seconds.
  I just want to point out to my colleagues that the State Department 
and Secretary of State Colin Powell relied on many sources to make 
their determination, and Secretary Powell made this comment in his 
letter of finding: ``Regrettably, the PRC has in place a regime of 
severe penalties on women who have unapproved births. This regime 
plainly operates to coerce pregnant women to have abortions in order to 
avoid the penalties and therefore amounts to a program of coercive 
abortion.'' He pointed out ``UNFPA's support of, and involvement in, 
China's population planning activities allows the Chinese government to 
implement more effectively its program of coercive abortion.''
  Every dollar, Madam Chairman, that does not go to the UNFPA the 
Secretary of State has said in writing he wants to reprogram to family 
planning and to maternal healthcare initiatives elsewhere around the 
world.
  Madam Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CROWLEY. Madam Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
California (Mr. Lantos), ranking member of the House Committee on 
International Relations.
  Mr. LANTOS. Madam Chairman, I thank the gentleman for yielding me 
this time.
  I rise in strong opposition to the amendment. I am second to no one 
in this body in my criticism of China's horrendous human rights record, 
including its population control policies. But the U.N. funds program 
in China is specifically designed to demonstrate the effectiveness of 
voluntary family planning programs free of coercion and free of quotas. 
In fact, for over three decades the U.N. fund has helped couples in 
scores of countries around the globe, avoiding unwanted pregnancies 
through voluntary family planning programs that fully respect 
individual rights.
  Today, 99 percent of U.N. funds, and let me repeat, 99 percent of the 
funds are spent outside of China. But this amendment ignores 99 percent 
of the programs and cuts off our contribution solely over China. If 
this amendment should pass, more unwanted children will come into the 
world, and more unnecessary abortions will occur.
  I strongly urge my colleagues to oppose the amendment.
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Madam Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the 
distinguished gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Pitts).
  Mr. PITTS. Madam chairman, I rise in strong support of this 
amendment.
  The Chinese government has a policy of killing unborn children it 
deems a waste of valuable space in one of the world's largest 
countries. And the UNFPA's response to this policy? Turn a blind eye to 
the practice of forcing women to kill their unborn children. In fact, 
it has gone so far as to praise China's population control tactics. 
Until that changes, UNFPA should not get a dime of the U.S. taxpayers' 
money.
  Last year the State Department said that the UNFPA, and I quote, ``is 
helping improve the administration of local family planning offices 
that are effectively coercing women to have abortions.'' Witnesses have 
testified in the Committee on International Relations that the UNFPA 
shares office space in one Chinese county with the Chinese Office of 
Family Planning. That is the very same agency carrying out these 
coercive practices. And after these revelations, did the UNFPA change 
its ways? No. Instead, it claimed ignorance.

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  As we debate this bill, let us face the truth. UNFPA actively and 
passively supports the policy of forcing women to kill their unborn 
children based on the debatable claims that it controls population 
growth. Is that really what we want to support or encourage? I do not 
think so. If we truly care about human rights, we should support 
programs that work, programs that uphold the dignity of human life, not 
programs that allow a repressive communist government to enforce a 
systematic effort of abuse, repression, and forced abortion.
  Some in this body are more committed to using taxpayer money to force 
Chinese women to have abortions because they have chosen to have 
children. They are so deeply committed to forcing these women to have 
abortions that they have already prevented us from sending more than 
$60 million to people in need.
  Make no mistake about it, UNFPA is in bed with Beijing on forced 
abortions, and if we fund UNFPA, Beijing gets stronger. If we fund 
UNFPA, we only encourage the regime's strategy of exterminating the 
babies they do not want; and we should not do that.
  Mr. CROWLEY. Madam Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from 
California (Ms. Lee), the cosponsor of this amendment.
  Ms. LEE. Madam Chairman, I rise today in strong opposition to the 
Smith amendment to deny basic, urgently needed health services to poor 
women living in over 141 countries around the globe. This dangerous 
amendment would strip the amendment that we successfully offered on a 
bipartisan basis in committee to restore UNFPA funding.
  UNFPA saves the lives of women and their children. It prevents 
abortions, and it provides basic HIV/AIDS prevention services.
  Madam Chairman, an overwhelming majority of this House voted for and 
the President recently signed into law an HIV/AIDS initiative. UNFPA 
funding is yet another important source of funding in the fight against 
the deadly pandemic and should be supported. Every day UNFPA is 
fighting the spread of HIV and AIDS and is saving the lives of hard-to-
reach women in hard-to-reach places all around the world.
  Finally, for those who are trying to turn this debate into a debate 
about abortion, let me clarify once more, not one single penny of UNFPA 
funds goes towards abortion. The Crowley-Lee amendment included in the 
bill strengthens the fact, and that is the reality. I urge a no on the 
Smith amendment.
  Mr. GREENWOOD. Madam Chairman, I yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the 
gentlewoman from Connecticut (Mrs. Johnson).
  Mrs. JOHNSON of Connecticut. Madam Chairman, I thank the gentleman 
for yielding me this time.
  Study after study and the experience of nation after nation has 
demonstrated that the more knowledge women have of how to control their 
reproductive capability, the more the abortion rate declines. We have 
seen this in spades in Russia and in countries around the world. Give 
women the knowledge they need to assume their family planning 
responsibilities, and they do not have abortions.
  So why would you want to deny the women of Haiti $2.8 million in 
family planning funds and all of the women's health that accompanies 
these funds, all of the education women gain about how to care for 
themselves, how to have healthy babies as opposed to unhealthy babies, 
how to have safe deliveries, how to recover postpartum?
  Why would you want to deny the women of Nicaragua $1.1 million in 
women's healthcare and in safe pregnancies?
  Why would you want to deny the women of El Salvador $600,000?
  Nigeria, a country in which there is terrible starvation, terrible 
deprivation, women get terrible healthcare and children die of hunger 
routinely, why would you want to deny the women of Nigeria $5.3 million 
so they could have the knowledge to handle their reproductive 
capabilities responsibly, plan their families so their children are 
spaced far enough apart, so their children survive and they survive to 
care for their children?
  Why would you want to deny the women of Pakistan $4.1 million, India 
$13 million, and so on?
  I do not comprehend. Why? Because China has a policy we absolutely 
oppose. So let's withhold our funds from China, but not from the rest 
of the women of the world!

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  Why can we not help us focus, as we have been willing to, on the 
problem in China? But do not deny the women of the world the power of 
knowledge, because it is that power of knowledge that helps them have 
healthy pregnancies, healthy babies, and reduces the rate of abortions 
dramatically; and that is a fact that cannot be denied.
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Madam Chairman, I yield myself 15 seconds to 
remind my colleagues that we provide almost half a billion dollars in 
family planning monies that go to Haiti, that go to Nicaragua, that go 
to El Salvador. We provide government-to-government and through 
nongovernmental organization support. And the money that does not go to 
the UNFPA will be reprogrammed dollar-for-dollar for these kinds of 
services.
  Madam Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the distinguished gentlewoman 
from Virginia (Mrs. Jo Ann Davis).
  Mrs. JO ANN DAVIS of Virginia. Madam Chairman, I rise today in 
support of the Smith-Oberstar-Hyde amendment to H.R. 1950.
  Madam Chairman, I am deeply troubled by the $25 million included in 
this bill for the United Nations Population Fund. The UNFPA has been 
proven to be an active participant in China's coercive population 
program. Secretary Colin Powell, following an investigation into the 
UNFPA's family planning programs, concluded that the ``UNFPA's support 
of, and involvement in, China's population-planning activities allows 
the Chinese government to implement more effectively its program of 
coercive abortion.''
  Madam Chairman, by funding UNFPA, we are permitting women in China to 
be victimized through this policy of forced abortion and involuntary 
sterilization. Certainly these women deserve better than that. No 
woman, no woman should be forced to have an abortion. Yet this is 
precisely how the Chinese government enforces its population control 
agenda, with the assistance of UNFPA. Madam Chairman, we cannot support 
this egregious violation of human rights and violence against women.
  By permitting the Crowley provision to remain in this bill, we will 
allow U.S. taxpayer dollars to be used to support coercive abortion 
practices overseas. To me, this is unthinkable. U.S. funds should not 
be connected to any program that is at all involved in a coercive 
population program, whether directly or indirectly. Due to the clear 
evidence of UNFPA's involvement in China, we cannot allow our taxpayers 
to contribute to this organization.
  Madam Chairman, UNFPA fails women through its participation in 
China's policy of coercive abortion. Regardless, regardless of where 
one stands on the issue of abortion, I think we can all agree that no 
woman, no woman should be forced to abort her child. My colleague from 
Connecticut spoke earlier about denying women of Nigeria, Pakistan, 
Haiti, and so forth. But Madam Chairman, I do not want to deny the 
women of China the right to have their children.
  I urge my colleagues to protect the fundamental human rights of women 
and children and support the Smith-Oberstar-Hyde amendment.
  Mr. CROWLEY. Madam Chairman, I yield 1 minute and 15 seconds to the 
gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. Lowey).
  Mrs. LOWEY. Madam Chairman, I rise in strong opposition to this 
amendment and in support of funding for UNFPA.
  The language this amendment's sponsors are trying to strike is 
simple. It says that no U.S. funds go to UNFPA if it directly supports 
coercive abortion and involuntary sterilization. That is in the bill.
  My colleagues may argue that we devote enough to bilateral 
international family planning programs, that UNFPA is unnecessary. I 
say that while USAID reaches families in 58 countries, UNFPA reaches 
141. In which of the 83 countries in question are there women whom we 
do not want to help?
  My colleagues may argue that our bilateral programs are comprehensive

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and UNFPA's is merely repetitive. I point to UNFPA's recent study on 
obstetric fistula. UNFPA is helping countries in sub-Saharan Africa to 
fix this terrible problem; USAID, to date, has done nothing.
  My colleagues may argue that the language in question today waters 
down current law. I say that it clarifies current law, maintaining its 
strength while ensuring it cannot be misinterpreted in order to cut off 
funding to life-saving programs.
  Madam Chairman, our refusal to fund UNFPA simply makes no sense. We 
do not champion human rights by cutting off UNFPA. What we do is 
prevent women from understanding what their rights are. We do not save 
women from coercive practices by cutting off UNFPA. We do, however, 
destroy an organization that is often the only place women can go to 
for basic medical and reproductive health care.
  Please vote against this amendment.
  Madam Chairman, I rise in opposition to this amendment, which would 
strike common-sense foreign policy from this bill.
  The language in question here is simple--it says that no U.S. funds 
can go to UNFPA if it directly supports or participates in coercive 
abortion and involuntary sterilization. It codifies the notion that 
respect for human rights and individual choice are critical components 
of our identity as Americans, and they should be essential parts of our 
foreign assistance program.
  The language in question fixes an egregious error in current law, an 
ambiguously-written, overly broad provision that allows politics--not 
sound policy--to decide where our foreign aid dollars go. Current law 
has prevented U.S. funding from reaching UNFPA programs since 2001--
deeply injuring an organization that saves the lives of the poorest of 
the poor women and children around the world.
  My colleagues may argue that it is enough that we devote hundreds of 
millions of dollars to bilateral international family planning 
programs. I say that while USAID reaches families in 58 countries, 
UNFPA reaches families in 141 countries. In which of the 83 countries 
in question are there women whom we don't want to help?
  My colleagues may argue that our bilateral programs are 
comprehensive, eliminating the need for UNFPA's repetitive programs. I 
point to UNFPA's recent study on obstetric fistula, a debilitating 
result of unattended childbirth that affects more than 2 million women 
in Africa alone. UNFPA is providing technical and programmatic 
assistance to countries in sub-Saharan Africa with the will to fix this 
horrific problem; USAID, to date, has done nothing.
  My colleagues may argue that the language in question today waters 
down current law. I say that it merely clarifies current law, to ensure 
it cannot be misinterpreted in order to cut off funding to life-saving 
programs around the world.
  Our continued refusal to fund UNFPA should embarrass us, because it 
simply makes no sense. We do not champion human rights by cutting off 
UNFPA--we all know that you can't solve problems by attacking the 
problem-solvers. What the withholding does is prevent women from 
understanding what their rights actually are.
  We do not save women from coercive practices by cutting off UNFPA. We 
do, however, destroy an organization that, in many countries, is the 
only place women can turn to for medical care and basic contraceptive 
products. The only point we make by zero funding UNFPA is that we do 
not care about the world's most vulnerable women. And that does not 
adequately reflect what the American people--and even the sponsors of 
this amendment--feel.
  I urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment. Let's put politics 
aside and allow common-sense, basic human decency, and the merit of 
UNFPA's work dictate our foreign policy.
  Mr. GREENWOOD. Madam Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman 
from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer).
  (Mr. HOYER asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. HOYER. Madam Chairman, I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania 
(Mr. Greenwood) for yielding me this time.
  The gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith) is my good friend, but this 
amendment is misguided. I do not believe that the vast majority of the 
American public agree with the proposition in this amendment.
  The fact is, this issue is not about abortion. It is about the health 
of millions of women and children in some of the poorest nations in the 
world. The United Nations Population Fund is the single largest global 
source of multilateral funding for maternal health and family planning 
programs, supporting programs in 150 developing nations. It helps 
mothers deliver healthy babies through prenatal care and safe delivery 
kits and counseling. It enables couples to determine the number and 
spacing of their children through the voluntary, and I stress 
voluntary, use of safe modern contraception. The gentleman from New 
Jersey, I do not think, believes in that, and I understand that.
  This program reduces the incidence and prevents the transmission of 
HIV/AIDS and others sexually transmitted diseases.
  Let us be clear. The United Nations Population Fund does not provide 
abortion or abortion services anywhere in the world. Not one penny of 
program funding is used to promote or to perform abortions. In fact, 
the U.N. Population Fund program in China was developed with the 
express purpose of moving China away from coerced abortion and 
involuntary stabilization practices.
  I urge my colleagues to vote against this amendment and to support 
the bipartisan provision offered by the gentleman from New York (Mr. 
Crowley) that was adopted in committee.
  Today, we do not ask the proponents of this amendment to abandon 
their deepest principles on abortion. They should not now ask us to put 
our heads in the sand and ignore the plight of millions of women and 
children.
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Madam Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the 
distinguished gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Akin).
  Mr. AKIN. Madam Chairman, the question is really whether U.S. dollars 
are going to be funding forced abortions. U.S. dollars may be used for 
some other things as well, but this amendment is dealing the 
restrictions to make sure that there will be no forced abortions. So if 
we vote ``yes'' on the amendment, then what we are going to do is 
effectively maintain the current ban on U.S. taxpayers' dollars being 
used to force abortions.
  I recall when this came up, it was really quite a number of years 
ago, but it was an unusual situation. A professor from Stanford 
University had gone to China and was absolutely amazed at what he saw 
in their delivery rooms, the fact that women were being forced to have 
abortions. Those were the better-equipped delivery rooms. The other 
delivery rooms had buckets full of water, and the unwanted children 
were simply drowned.
  Now, China has had this policy for some time. The question is whether 
or not we want to coerce our taxpayer dollars, first of all, to go and, 
second of all, to kill these children.
  Well, the end of the story was that the professor talked about this 
publicly. It upset Stanford because they had so many Chinese students. 
Stanford told the professor to be quiet. He refused to be quiet, and he 
lost his job. But the damage was done. The American people found out 
about coerced abortions.
  So it is ironic, it seems to me, that in the name of choice, that we 
are forcing taxpayers to pay their money and forcing women to have 
abortions.
  Madam Chairman, I urge my colleagues to support the amendment and 
have no part of any coercion whatsoever.
  Mr. GREENWOOD. Madam Chairman, I yield myself 10 seconds to note that 
the Stanford University professor who was just quoted, Steven Mosher, 
was kicked out of Stanford in the 1980s for academic fraud and 
misappropriation of university funds.
  Mr. CROWLEY. Madam Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from 
New York (Mrs. Maloney), a leader on this issue.
  Mrs. MALONEY. Madam Chairman, I thank my colleagues, the gentleman 
from New York (Mr. Crowley) and the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. 
Greenwood), for their extraordinary leadership in saving the lives of 
women and children around the world.
  I will place in the Record two reports that will help clarify this 
debate. Members on the other side of the aisle, the gentleman from New 
Jersey (Mr. Smith) and others, have talked about the China policy; and 
I will place in the Record the report from the British Government and 
the report from the President's own hand-picked investigatory team 
which found that UNFPA was not participating in any way in coercion or 
forced abortion in China, so it is clear and in the Record.

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  Now, let me tell my colleagues what this debate is really about. This 
debate is about saving women's lives around the world through 
international family planning. Over 1,600 women die each day in 
childbirth. That is roughly 600,000 women, at a minimum, each year. It 
is equivalent to two Boeing jets crashing each day.
  What UNFPA is about is about handing out safe birthing kits to needy, 
poor women.
  The CHAIRMAN pro tempore (Mrs. Capito). The time of the gentlewoman 
has expired.
  Mr. GREENWOOD. Madam Chairman, I yield 30 seconds to the gentlewoman 
from New York (Mrs. Maloney).
  Mrs. MALONEY. Madam Chairman, it includes simple things like a 
plastic mat, a razor, soap; basic items that can provide the necessary 
items that prevent the death of a woman in childbirth. That is what 
UNFPA is about.
  Madam Chairman, 150 countries cannot be wrong. They support the 
efforts of UNFPA. Our country should be there too, helping the poor 
women and children around the world, not cutting off needed supplies 
like this birthing kit that only saves the lives of women in 
childbirth. And if my friends on the other side support life so much, 
they would support UNFPA's efforts to save the lives of women and 
children around the world.
  The President's own handpicked investigatory team found that UNFPA 
was not participating in coercion.

       In sum, based in what we saw, heard, and read, we find no 
     evidence that UNFPA has knowingly supported or participated 
     in the management of a program of coercive abortion or 
     involuntary sterilization in the PRC. Indeed, UNFPA has 
     registered its strong opposition to such practices. (Team 
     Report to Colin Powell, July 22, 2002)

  A team composed of members of Parliament from the UK in July 2002 
found that UNFPA was not participating in coercion.

       The [delegation] was convinced that the UNFPA program is a 
     force for good, in moving China away from abuses such as 
     forced-family planning, sterilizations, and abortions . . . 
     It is vitally important that the UNFPA remains actively 
     involved in China, with continued financial support from the 
     UK and other Western Governments. (Report filed by MPs 
     Christine McCafferty, Edward Leigh, and Norman Lamb (July 2, 
     2002) and forwarded to the U.S. State Department)

  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Madam Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the 
gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Pence), my good friend and colleague.
  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Madam Chairman, I thank the gentleman for yielding me this 
time.
  I want to be clear on this issue. I am pro-life and I do not 
apologize for it, but there is no choice in China.

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  There is no woman's right to choose in China. There is a policy of 
forced coercive abortion and family planning. Whether or not academics 
who first observed it were discredited entirely, there is a policy of 
forced abortion. And with regard to the UNFPA's role, Madam Chairman, I 
will quote none other than Secretary of State Colin Powell, July 21, 
2002, saying, ``The UNFPA's support of and involvement in China's 
population planning activities allows the Chinese government to 
implement more effectively its program of coercive abortion; therefore, 
it is not permissible to continue funding of the UNFPA at this time.'' 
So said Secretary of State Colin Powell.
  It is why we are here today, because there is an attempt to change 
the language first adopted in Kemp-Kasten in the 1985 Supplemental 
Appropriations Acts that barred funding to organizations that support 
or participate in the management of a program of coercive abortion or 
involuntary sterilization. The language adopted in the Committee on 
International Relations essentially creates a safe harbor where, as 
long as the UNFPA claims ignorance of China's barbaric birth control 
policies, they can receive U.S. funds.
  The reality is that UNFPA has a history of supporting China's 
coercive family planning program. Sven Burmeister of the UNFPA actually 
called China's population control policies ``a gift to mankind.''
  It is barbarism at its worst. I stand, therefore, in strong support 
of the Smith-Oberstar-Hyde amendment. It is not time to back up on 
fundamental human rights protections.
  Mr. CROWLEY. Madam Chairman, I yield 30 seconds to the gentlewoman 
from California (Ms. Solis).
  Ms. SOLIS. Madam Chairman, I rise in strong opposition to the Smith 
amendment and strongly support international family planning programs, 
the United Nations Population Fund, and the Crowley-Lee amendment. The 
UNFPA fund helps promote family services and maternal child health 
care.
  Last year, I had an opportunity to visit Nicaragua. As some of you 
know, I am half Nicaraguan. I got to see the work that was happening 
out there to help improve the lives of women and their children. And in 
Nicaragua, UNFPA fund is working to train midwives, midwifes working in 
maternity houses that offer free shelter, medical counselling and 
assistance to high-risk pregnant women.
  Madam Chairman, I rise in opposition to the Smith Amendment. I 
strongly support international family planning programs, the United 
Nations Population Fund, and Crowley Lee Amendment.
  UNFPA helps promote family services and maternal and child health 
care.
  It successfully operates in 34 countries in Latin America and the 
Caribbean and works to increase the number of skilled birth attendants 
and reduced high rates of maternal and infant mortality.
  In Nicaragua, UNFPA is working to train midwives working in maternity 
houses that offer free shelter, medical counseling and assistance to 
high-risk pregnant women, I had a chance to visit and hear about these 
successes.
  As a result, these UNFPA funded maternity homes have helped to reduce 
maternal mortality in Nicaragua, but many are facing severe funding 
shortages and may be forced to shut down.
  The United States should be helping UNFPA address the continuing 
unmet need for reproductive and maternal health services in Latin 
America and around the world!
  Mr. GREENWOOD. Madam Chairman, how much time remains?
  The CHAIRMAN pro tempore (Mrs. Capito). The gentleman from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Greenwood) has 3 minutes remaining. The gentleman 
from New Jersey (Mr. Smith) has 4\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentleman 
from New York (Mr. Crowley) has 3\1/4\ minutes remaining.
  Mr. GREENWOOD. Madam Chairman, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the 
gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Kirk).
  Mr. KIRK. Madam Chairman, I urge the defeat of this amendment, not 
because of my concerns over what is happening in China but my concerns 
over what is happening in Mexico. If you believe that we should reduce 
the population growth of Mexico, then you should be for the United 
Nations Population Fund which contributes to their program.
  Is anyone in this Chamber concerned with the population of Haiti? If 
you are concerned with overly robust immigration from Haiti, especially 
illegal immigration, we should be concerned about smaller family size 
in that country. The UNFPA does that. And Nicaragua and Guatemala and 
El Salvador.
  But much more directly, the Central Intelligence Agency has 
identified several countries of long-term concern to the United States, 
particularly the government of Pakistan which they believe may not 
survive this century. Are you concerned about population pressures 
there? Are you concerned about large numbers of Pakistanis entering the 
job market and not finding a job? Well, I am; and the UNFPA is directly 
supporting the Pakistani family planning program.
  More directly, how about the UNFPA efforts to reduce the population 
size and pressure on Liberia, a government of direct interest to the 
U.S. national security community at this time? Or what about the mother 
of all countries in the Middle East undergirding our peace process 
there, Egypt? The UNFPA is the way that we support the Egyptian family 
planning program.
  I would urge the defeat of this amendment for Mexico, for Haiti, for 
Pakistan, for Liberia, for Egypt.
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Madam Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the 
gentleman from Iowa (Mr. King.)
  Mr. KING of Iowa. Madam Chairman, I thank the gentleman for yielding 
me time.
  I support the Smith-Oberstar-Hyde amendment which removes the Crowley 
amendment. The Crowley amendment to H.R. 1950 renders impotent

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previous language known as the Kemp-Kasten anti-coercion provision, a 
long-standing provision that allows the President to withhold funding 
from organizations and programs that were supporters or participants in 
the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary 
sterilization.
  The Crowley amendment replaces this easy-to-use oversight language 
with language that would make it virtually impossible to pull the plug 
on funding to questionable organizations, by requiring they ``knowingly 
and intentionally'' support the coercive program being carried out. 
Should not the fact that an organization merely subsidizes the effort 
of coercive abortions or forced sterilization be enough of a connection 
to make their hands too dirty to be trusted with taxpayer money?
  The knowingly and intentionally standard is difficult and perhaps 
impossible to prove. It would allow offenders to invade the prohibition 
and receive United States tax dollars to subsidize forced abortions and 
sterilizations.
  Quite frankly, we should not have to go through with a virtually 
impossible task of definitively establishing that an organization 
knowingly and intentionally supported a tyrannical government's 
coercive abortion practices. On the contrary, those organizations 
should have to prove to the nations funding them that they 
unequivocally do not force women to have abortions or undergo 
sterilizations in any way. An organization's mere connection to and 
support of a tyrannical government's overall population control 
infrastructure is compelling enough evidence that they should not 
receive funding.
  Organizations that, wittingly or unwittingly, directly or indirectly, 
support the population control systems of a nation that forces a woman 
to undergo an abortion or take away a woman's availability to have a 
child have no business receiving U.S. tax dollars.
  Mr. CROWLEY. Madam Chairman, I yield 30 seconds to the gentlewoman 
from California (Mrs. Capps).
  Mrs. CAPPS. Madam Chairman, I urge this House to reject the Smith 
amendment.
  Slashing our contribution to the United Nations Population Fund would 
sacrifice the health and safety of some of the poorest women and 
children around the world. This program provides critical maternal 
health, emergency assistance for refugees, reproduction education, 
prevention and treatment for HIV and AIDS, and critical care for 
infants and children.
  I saw with my own eyes recently in South Africa that this program is 
the only health care that many families receive. This Congress should 
know that each year we hold our funding hostage to the divisive 
politics we cost impoverished women and children their lives. Defeating 
this amendment is essential for child survival and AIDS prevention. 
Millions of orphans around the world are pleading with us.
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Madam Chairman, I yield myself 30 seconds.
  Madam Chairman, presumably the gentleman from California (Mr. 
Lantos), the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Greenwood) and virtually 
everybody in this Chamber opposes the tyrannical forced abortion policy 
of China, but not the UNFPA. Let me say that again, not the United 
Nations Population Fund.
  Their representative has called this the most successful family 
planning policy in the history of mankind. They call it voluntary when 
it is not. They aid and abet this cruel policy in many, many tangible 
ways.
  The State Department has it right. In the 32 counties as well as in 
the rest of China, when a woman gets pregnant and the baby is out of 
``plan'', in other words, an illegal pregnancy--an illegal child--she 
faces Draconian fines of up to 6 years of salary. That is what compels 
the abortion. Desperate, with nowhere to turn, she aborts the child to 
avoid those fines. I urge support for Smith-Oberstar-Hyde amendment.
  Mr. GREENWOOD. Mr. Chairman, I yield 30 seconds back to the gentleman 
from New York (Mr. Crowley).
  Mr. CROWLEY. Mr. Chairman, I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from 
Ohio (Mr. Kucinich).
  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Chairman, in opposing the amendment we recognize 
that reproductive rights embrace certain human rights. We respect the 
rights of women to make personal decisions on the number, spacing, and 
timing of children they wish to bear, what type of birth control she 
chooses, and the right for health, including sexual health.
  The UNPF is one of the most successful foreign aid programs that 
achieves these goals. By denying UNFPA funding to women in poor 
countries, we deprive them of human rights. UNFPA estimates that $69 
million could prevent 4 million unwanted pregnancies, prevent 1.6 
million abortions, prevent 9,400 maternal deaths and prevent 1,200 
cases of serious material injury and illness.
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Chairman, we have one final speaker to 
close debate on my side.
  Mr. CROWLEY. Mr. Chairman, I will reserve the right to close.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Ryan).
  Mr. RYAN of Ohio. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman from New York 
(Mr. Crowley) for yielding me time.
  Mr. Chairman, we know that China participates in forced abortions and 
we all want that to end, but the argument that we are hearing from the 
other side is that, if we fund this program, that frees money up for 
China to participate with forced abortions. So that also means, 
logically, that the money that Secretary Thompson is using for HIV and 
AIDS investing in China is also freeing up money for them to use for 
forced abortions; and it also means the free trade deals that we sign 
that allow Motorola and other companies to put investment into China 
also frees up money for them to used for coerced abortion.
  That does not make any sense. We all want to prevent abortions. That 
means funding this program will stop 800,000 abortions. That is the 
goal. Nobody wants coerced abortions in this Chamber. Nobody. Let us 
make the proper decision. Let us have preventative medicine and let us 
prevent 800,000 abortions right now with one vote.
  I oppose this amendment. Vote it down. Keep the Crowley language.
  Mr. GREENWOOD. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  Mr. Chairman, this is one of those days when I stand on the floor and 
wonder what it is that we are fighting about because our values are so 
common in so many ways.
  Every one of us agrees not a penny of this money should go for 
abortions, and it does not. Everyone agrees that the policy of coerced 
abortion is an abomination. It is horrible.
  The gentleman from New Jersey came to the floor with an amendment 
that said if this administration finds that UNFPA is engaged in helping 
coerced abortions to occur, we would get a 100 percent vote for it. If 
he said that, the funding to China or the UNFPA would stop. That is not 
what he has done.
  What he has done is similar to in the movies when the bad guys come 
to town and somebody did something they did not like, so they line them 
up and they shoot them up.
  The Smith amendment lines them up and shoots them all. It shoots them 
in Haiti. It shoots the program down in Nicaragua, throughout Africa, 
throughout Asia, throughout the world. All of the good that the 
gentleman says he supports he cuts in half with his amendment. Because, 
despite the fact that this administration said we find no evidence that 
the UNFPA has knowingly supported or participated in the management of 
coercive abortions, he suspects that perhaps there is an inkling that 
they do.
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Chairman, I yield our remaining time to 
the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde), the distinguished chairman of 
the Committee on International Relations, to close debate for our side.
  Mr. HYDE. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. 
Smith) very much for yielding me time.
  I really do not know where to begin. We have all agreed that the 
Chinese population control program is coercive and, therefore, 
violative of human rights. We ought to stay a thousand miles away from 
anything that facilitates that. And yet this money that we give to the 
population control fund facilitates the Chinese program.
  Now, what no one has mentioned today is the law in China. The 
population and family planning law which was adopted a couple of years 
ago has

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some chilling phrases in it. Citizens who give birth to a child in 
violation of Article 18 of this law may be ordered to pay a premium to 
a fund. Yes, they are ordered to pay a premium triple the yearly income 
which forces an abortion, coerces an abortion. And guess who enforces 
the Chinese population law? The People's Liberation Army, the Chinese 
People's Liberation Army enforces their population law.
  Now, I listened very carefully to criticisms that the countries are 
going to be denied family planning. We are the largest spender on the 
globe, in the galaxy for family planning, and nobody will be denied 
anything. It just does not go through the U.N. You know the U.N. That 
is the organization that supplanted us on the Commission for Human 
Rights with Libya.
  Now, if you think it is important for us to worry about the 
population of Mexico, as one of the late speakers did, I can understand 
a Mexican listening to that and saying, who are they to worry about our 
population?
  I am out of time. I just want to say I am just getting wound up, but 
that is the way it goes. I hope you support the Smith amendment.

                              {time}  1415

  Mr. CROWLEY. Mr. Chairman, before closing, I yield 30 seconds to the 
gentlewoman from Colorado (Ms. DeGette).
  Ms. DeGETTE. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for yielding me the 
time, and I thank him for his leadership on this issue.
  As a woman and a Member of Congress, I am appalled to think that we 
would cut money for family planning in order to say we are cutting 
money from abortion. If we have family planning, all around the world 
we will reduce the number of abortions; and it seems to me that is a 
good thing.
  The UNFPA money is not going to force abortions in China. This is a 
red herring. The former director of that group said any form of 
coercion is unacceptable.
  Vote ``no'' on this ill-conceived amendment.
  Mr. CROWLEY. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself the remaining time.
  I will close by just saying that I have enormous respect for the 
authors of this amendment, the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith), 
the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde), and the gentleman from 
Minnesota (Mr. Oberstar).
  The gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith) has a stellar record when 
it comes to the issue of human rights, and I applaud him for that. We 
just simply do not agree on this issue.
  If I believed that or any part of my body believed or my soul 
believed that the UNFPA was engaged in any form of forced abortion 
anywhere in the world, I would be the first person supporting their 
amendment. I just do not believe that to be the case.
  I have seen the benefit of UNFPA in the world. I have been to Africa. 
I have been to Asia. I have been to Bangladesh and India and China. I 
have seen the abuses in China, and I do not agree with them. I do not 
agree with China on just about anything, but that does not mean we 
should gut a program that has worked all around this world to save 
lives.
  Let me just say this in closing. Dr. Nafis Sadik, the former 
executive director of UNFPA, said, ``Any form of coercion is completely 
unacceptable, on practical as well as ethical grounds. Coercion is a 
violation of human rights. Although it is every country's sovereign 
right to determine its own policy, that right does not extend to 
coercive practices. The assumption behind coercion, that women are 
inferior, incapable of independent decision making, not to be trusted, 
are also those that undermine sustainable development.''
  The choice is really clear. If you support family planning, you will 
oppose the Smith-Oberstar-Hyde amendment.
  Mr. SHAYS. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to this harmful 
amendment.
  Cutting funds to the United Nations Population Fund will prevent 
vital assistance for poor women and children in developing countries. 
UNFPA's programs help families prevent unwanted pregnancies, undergo 
childbirth safely, avoid STDs including HIV/AIDS, and combats violence 
against women. I cannot understand how, in good conscience, a member 
could vote to cut these programs.
  I believe we must support UNFPA and its family planning initiatives 
because world population continues to grow out of control. In 1960, 
there were 3 billion people that lived on this Earth. Today, there are 
6 billion people; and in 40 years, without worldwide family planning 
services, it will rise to nearly 9 billion. The UNFPA responds to this 
growth by assisting the world's poorest countries in formulating 
population policies and strategies. Overpopulation threatens not only 
the world's political stability, but our global environment as well.
  As a former Peace Corps volunteer, I can attest to the substantial 
contributions international family programs make to economic 
development, higher living standards and improved health nutrition.
  We need to defeat the Smith/Hyde amendment.
  Mr. CROWLEY. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The CHAIRMAN pro tempore (Mr. Ose). All time having expired, the 
question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New Jersey 
(Mr. Smith).
  The question was taken; and the Chairman pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. CROWLEY. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote, and pending 
that, I make the point of order that a quorum is not present.
  The CHAIRMAN pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New Jersey 
(Mr. Smith) will be postponed.
  The point of no quorum is considered withdrawn.
  It is now in order to consider amendment No. 2 printed in House 
Report 108-206.


                  Amendment No. 2 Offered by Mr. Hyde

  Mr. HYDE. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment No. 2 offered by Mr. Hyde:
       Strike section 1 of the bill and insert the following:

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``Millennium Challenge 
     Account, Peace Corps Expansion, and Foreign Relations 
     Authorization Act of 2003''.
       Strike subsection (a) of section 2 of the bill and insert 
     the following:
       (a) Organization of Act Into Divisions.--This Act is 
     organized into four divisions as follows:
       (1) Division a.--Millennium Challenge Account Act of 2003.
       (2) Division b.--Peace Corps Expansion Act of 2003.
       (3) Division c.--Department of State Authorization Act, 
     Fiscal Years 2004 and 2005.
       (4) Division d.--Defense Trade and Security Assistance 
     Reform Act of 2003.
       Redesignate division A of the bill as division C of the 
     bill (and conform all titles, subtitles, and sections therein 
     accordingly, and make all other related technical and 
     conforming amendments).
       Redesignate division B of the bill as division D of the 
     bill (and conform all titles, subtitles, and sections therein 
     accordingly, and make all other related technical and 
     conforming amendments).
       Insert after section 3 of the bill the following two new 
     divisions (and conform the table of contents accordingly):

                DIVISION A--MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE ACCOUNT

                      TITLE I--GENERAL PROVISIONS

     SEC. 101. SHORT TITLE.

       This division may be cited as the ``Millennium Challenge 
     Account Act of 2003''.

     SEC. 102. DEFINITIONS.

       In this division:
       (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
     ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
       (A) the Committee on International Relations and the 
     Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives; 
     and
       (B) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on 
     Appropriations of the Senate.
       (2) Board.--The term ``Board'' means the Board of Directors 
     of the Corporation established pursuant to section 303 of 
     this Act.
       (3) Compact.--The term ``Compact'' means the Millennium 
     Challenge Compact described in section 204 of this Act.
       (4) Corporation.--The term ``Corporation'' means the 
     Millennium Challenge Corporation established under section 
     301 of this Act.
       (5) Council.--The term ``Council'' means the Millennium 
     Challenge Advisory Council established under section 308 of 
     this Act.
       (6) Millennium development goals.--The term ``Millennium 
     Development Goals'' means the key development objectives 
     described in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, as 
     contained in United Nations General Assembly Resolution 55/2 
     (September 2000), which aim to eradicate extreme poverty and 
     hunger, achieve universal primary education, promote gender 
     equality and empower women, reduce child mortality, improve 
     maternal health, combat HIV/AIDS,

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     malaria, and other infectious diseases, ensure environmental 
     sustainability, and develop a global partnership for 
     development.

     SEC. 103. SUNSET.

       All authorities under this division (other than title IV) 
     shall terminate on October 1, 2007.

               TITLE II--MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE ASSISTANCE

     SEC. 201. FINDINGS; STATEMENT OF POLICY.

       (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
       (1) A principal objective of United States foreign 
     assistance programs, as stated in section 101 of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961, is the ``encouragement and sustained 
     support of the people of developing countries in their 
     efforts to acquire the knowledge and resources essential to 
     development and to build the economic, political, and social 
     institutions which will improve the quality of their lives''.
       (2) The expanding acceptance of free trade and open markets 
     and the spread of democracy and the rule of law have brought 
     a better way of life to an increasing number of people in the 
     world.
       (3) Inequalities between men and women undermine 
     development and poverty-reduction efforts in fundamental 
     ways. A woman's limited access to resources and restrictions 
     on the exercise of her rights, including the right to 
     participate in social and political processes, disables her 
     from maximizing her contribution to her family's health, 
     education, and general well-being.
       (4) On March 14, 2002, the President noted the successes of 
     development assistance programs: ``The advances of free 
     markets and trade and democracy and rule of law have brought 
     prosperity to an ever-widening circle of people in this 
     world. During our lifetime, per capita income in the poorest 
     countries has nearly doubled. Illiteracy has been cut by one-
     third, giving more children a chance to learn. Infant 
     mortality has been almost halved, giving more children a 
     chance to live.''.
       (5) Development is neither an easy process nor a linear 
     one. There are successes and there are failures. Today, too 
     many people are still living in poverty, disease has eroded 
     many of the economic and social gains of previous decades, 
     and many countries have not adopted policies, for a variety 
     of reasons, that would enable them to compete in an open and 
     equitable international economic system.
       (6) More countries and more people will be able to 
     participate in and benefit from the opportunities afforded by 
     the global economy if the following conditions for sound and 
     sustainable economic development are met:
       (A) Security.--Security is necessary for economic 
     development. Persistent poverty and oppression can lead to 
     hopelessness, despair, and to failed states that become 
     havens for terrorists.
       (B) Policies that support broad-based economic growth.--
     Successful long-term development can only occur through 
     broad-based economic growth that enables the poor to increase 
     their incomes and have access to productive resources and 
     services so that they can lead lives of decency, dignity, and 
     hope.
       (C) Democracy and the rule of law.--Democratic development, 
     political pluralism, and respect for internationally 
     recognized human rights are intrinsically linked to economic 
     and social progress. The ability of people to participate in 
     the economic and political processes affecting their lives is 
     essential to sustained growth. The rule of law and a 
     commitment to fight corruption is also critical to the 
     development of a prosperous society.
       (D) Investments in people.--Economic growth and democracy 
     can be sustained only if both men and women have the basic 
     tools and capabilities that foster the opportunity for 
     participation in the economic, social, and political life of 
     their countries. Successful development of countries requires 
     citizens who are literate, healthy, and prepared and able to 
     work.
       (7) Economic assistance programs authorized under part I of 
     the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as administered by the 
     United States Agency for International Development and other 
     Federal agencies, are of critical importance in assisting 
     countries to be in a position to maximize the effectiveness 
     of assistance authorized by this title.
       (8) It is in the national interest of the United States to 
     help those countries that are implementing the economic and 
     political reforms necessary for development to occur.
       (9) On March 14, 2002, the President stated that the 
     ``growing divide between wealth and poverty, between 
     opportunity and misery, is both a challenge to our compassion 
     and a source of instability . . . [w]e must confront it . . . 
     [w]e must include every African, every Asian, every Latin 
     American, every Muslim, in an expanding circle of 
     development.''.
       (10) The President has pledged that funds requested for the 
     Millennium Challenge Account shall be in addition to, and not 
     a substitute for, existing development and humanitarian 
     programs.
       (11) Development assistance alone is not sufficient to 
     stimulate economic growth and development. Assistance has 
     been shown to have a positive impact on growth and 
     development in developing countries with sound policies and 
     institutions. If countries have poor policies and 
     institutions, however, it is highly unlikely that assistance 
     will have a net positive effect.
       (12) Economic development, and the achievement of the 
     Millennium Development Goals, must be a shared responsibility 
     between donor and recipient countries.
       (b) Statement of Policy Regarding a New Compact for Global 
     Development.--It is, therefore, the policy of the United 
     States to support a new compact for global development that--
       (1) increases support by donor countries to those 
     developing countries that are fostering democracy and the 
     rule of law, investing in their people, and promoting 
     economic freedom for all their people;
       (2) recognizes, however, that it is the developing 
     countries themselves that are primarily responsible for the 
     achievement of those goals;
       (3) seeks to coordinate the disparate development 
     assistance policies of donor countries, and to harmonize the 
     trade and finance policies of donor countries with their 
     respective development assistance programs; and
       (4) aims to reduce poverty by significantly increasing the 
     economic growth trajectory of beneficiary countries through 
     investing in the productive potential of the people of such 
     countries.

     SEC. 202. AUTHORIZATION OF ASSISTANCE.

       (a) Assistance.--The President, acting through the Chief 
     Executive Officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, is 
     authorized to provide assistance to eligible countries to 
     support policies and programs that advance the progress of 
     such countries in achieving lasting economic growth and 
     poverty reduction and are in furtherance of the purposes of 
     this title.
       (b) Principal Objectives.--Assistance provided under 
     subsection (a) should advance a country's progress toward 
     promoting the following principal objectives:
       (1) Fostering democratic societies, human rights, and the 
     rule of law.--The assistance should promote--
       (A) political, social, and economic pluralism;
       (B) respect for the rule of law;
       (C) anti-corruption initiatives and law enforcement;
       (D) development of institutions of democratic governance, 
     including electoral and legislative processes;
       (E) transparent and accountable public administration at 
     all levels of government;
       (F) a fair, competent, and independent judiciary; and
       (G) a free and independent media.
       (2) Fostering investment in education and health 
     infrastructure and systems.--The assistance should foster 
     improved educational opportunities and health conditions, 
     particularly for women and children, including through--
       (A) support for programs and personnel that promote broad-
     based primary education, including through the development of 
     academic curricula, by making available textbooks and other 
     educational materials, and through appropriate use of 
     technology;
       (B) support for programs to strengthen and build 
     institutions, including primary health care systems, 
     infrastructure, facilities, and personnel that provide 
     quality health care;
       (C) support for improved systems for the delivery of 
     healthy water and sanitation services; and
       (D) support for programs that reduce child mortality 
     (including those programs that combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, 
     tuberculosis, and other infectious diseases, consistent with 
     sections 104(c), 104A, 104B, and 104C of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961).
       (3) Promoting economic freedom, broad-based economic 
     growth, and fostering free market systems.--The assistance 
     should foster the institutions and conditions needed to 
     promote free market systems, trade, and investment, 
     including--
       (A) the reform and restructuring of banking and financial 
     systems, including by allowing foreign competition in the 
     banking and financial sectors, where appropriate;
       (B) the development of transparent and efficient commercial 
     codes and reduction in the regulatory burden on business;
       (C) the protection of property rights, including--
       (i) private property and intellectual property rights, 
     including through the adoption and effective enforcement of 
     intellectual property treaties or international agreements; 
     and
       (ii) the establishment and maintenance of an efficient and 
     integrated legal property system that, among other things, 
     facilitates the ability of the poor, particularly women, to 
     convert physical and intellectual assets into capital, such 
     as utilizing existing practices and customs that allow assets 
     to be documented in a manner that makes the assets widely 
     transferable, leveragable, and fungible, that allows 
     individuals to hold legal title to their property, and that 
     holds owners accountable for transactions involving their 
     property;
       (D) support for market-based policies that support 
     increased agricultural production;
       (E) a strong commitment to sound monetary and budgetary 
     policies;
       (F) the development of small businesses, private 
     cooperatives, credit unions, and trade and labor unions;
       (G) the protection of internationally recognized workers' 
     rights; and
       (H) the capacity of eligible countries to ameliorate damage 
     to the environment and respect other environmental standards.

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     SEC. 203. ELIGIBILITY AND RELATED REQUIREMENTS.

       (a) Assistance for Low Income Countries.--
       (1) Fiscal year 2004.--A country shall be eligible to 
     receive assistance under section 202 for fiscal year 2004 
     if--
       (A) the country is eligible for assistance from the 
     International Development Association, and the per capita 
     income of the country is equal to or less than the historical 
     ceiling of the International Development Association for that 
     year, as defined by the International Bank for Reconstruction 
     and Development;
       (B) subject to paragraph (3), the country is not ineligible 
     to receive United States economic assistance by reason of the 
     application of section 116, 490, or 620A of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961, or by reason of the application of 
     any other provision of law; and
       (C) the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation 
     determines that the country has demonstrated a commitment 
     to--
       (i) bolster democracy, human rights, good governance and 
     the rule of law;
       (ii) invest in the health and education of its citizens; 
     and
       (iii) promote sound economic policies that promote economic 
     freedom and opportunity.
       (2) Fiscal years 2005 and 2006.--A country shall be 
     eligible to receive assistance under section 202 for fiscal 
     years 2005 and 2006 if--
       (A) the per capita income of the country is equal to or 
     less than the historical ceiling of the International 
     Development Association for the fiscal year involved, as 
     defined by the International Bank for Reconstruction and 
     Development;
       (B) the country meets the requirements of paragraph (1)(B); 
     and
       (C) the country meets the requirements of clauses (i) 
     through (iii) of paragraph (1)(C), as determined by the Chief 
     Executive Officer.
       (3) Rule of construction.--For the purposes of determining 
     whether a country is eligible for receiving assistance under 
     section 202 pursuant to paragraph (1)(B), the exercise by the 
     President, the Secretary of State, or any other officer or 
     employee of the United States of any waiver or suspension of 
     any provision of law referred to in such paragraph shall not 
     be construed as satisfying the requirement of such paragraph.
       (b) Assistance for Lower Middle Income Countries.--
       (1) In general.--In addition to countries described in 
     subsection (a), a country shall be eligible to receive 
     assistance under section 202 for fiscal year 2006 if the 
     country--
       (A) is classified as a lower middle income country in the 
     then most recent edition of the World Development Report 
     published by the International Bank for Reconstruction and 
     Development;
       (B) meets the requirements of subsection (a)(1)(B); and
       (C) meets the requirements of clauses (i) through (iii) of 
     subsection (a)(1)(C), as determined by the Chief Executive 
     Officer.
       (2) Limitation.--The total amount of assistance provided to 
     countries under this subsection for fiscal year 2006 may not 
     exceed 20 percent of the total amount of assistance provided 
     to all countries under section 202 for fiscal year 2006.
       (c) Assistance for Selected Low Income Countries.--
       (1) In general.--A country shall be eligible to receive 
     assistance for any of fiscal years 2004 through 2006 solely 
     for the purpose of becoming eligible to receive assistance 
     under subsection (a) if the country--
       (A) meets the requirements of paragraphs (1)(B) and (2)(A) 
     of subsection (a);
       (B) demonstrates a commitment to meeting the requirements 
     of clauses (i) through (iii) of subsection (a)(1)(C), as 
     determined by the Chief Executive Officer; but
       (C) fails to meet the eligibility criteria necessary to 
     receive assistance under section 202, as established under 
     subsection (e).
       (2) Administration.--Assistance for countries eligible by 
     reason of the application of this subsection shall be 
     provided through the United States Agency for International 
     Development.
       (3) Allocation of funds.--Of the amount authorized to be 
     appropriated under section 208(a) for a fiscal year, not more 
     than 15 percent of such amount is authorized to be 
     appropriated to the President for the fiscal year to carry 
     out this subsection.
       (d) General Authority To Determine Eligibility.--
       (1) General authority.--The Chief Executive Officer shall 
     determine whether or not a country is eligible to receive 
     assistance under section 202.
       (2) Congressional notification.--Not later than 7 days 
     after making a determination of eligibility for a country 
     under paragraph (1), the Chief Executive Officer shall 
     provide notice thereof to the appropriate congressional 
     committees. Such notice shall include a certification of the 
     determination of the Chief Executive Officer that the country 
     meets the requirements of clauses (i) through (iii) of 
     subsection (a)(1)(C) in accordance with such subsection, 
     subsection (a)(2)(C), subsection (b)(1)(C), or subsection 
     (c)(1)(B), as the case may be.
       (e) Eligibility Criteria.--
       (1) Initial criteria and methodology.--At soon as 
     practicable after the date of the enactment of this Act, but 
     not later than 30 days prior to making any determination of 
     eligibility for a country under this section, the Chief 
     Executive Officer--
       (A) shall consult in-person with the appropriate 
     congressional committees with respect to the establishment of 
     eligibility criteria and methodology that the Chief Executive 
     Officer proposes to use for purposes of determining 
     eligibility under this section;
       (B) shall establish such eligibility criteria and 
     methodology; and
       (C) shall prepare and transmit to such committees a written 
     report that contains such eligibility criteria and 
     methodology.
       (2) Revisions to criteria and methodology.--If the Chief 
     Executive Officer proposes to use revised or different 
     criteria from the criteria described in paragraph (1) in 
     making a determination of eligibility for a country under 
     this section, then, not later than 15 days prior to making 
     such determination, the Chief Executive Officer shall consult 
     in-person with the appropriate congressional committees with 
     respect to such revised or different criteria and methodology 
     in accordance with paragraph (1)(A) and shall prepare and 
     transmit a written report in accordance with paragraph 
     (1)(C).
       (f) Form of Assistance; Recipients.--
       (1) Form of assistance.--Assistance provided under section 
     202 for a country shall be provided to one or more of the 
     entities described in paragraph (2) on a nonrepayable basis 
     and in accordance with a fair, open, and competitive 
     selection process that results in the awarding of such 
     assistance on a merit basis using selection criteria that are 
     made public by the Corporation in advance and are otherwise 
     in accordance with standard and customary best practices for 
     the provision of similar types of assistance.
       (2) Recipients.--The entities referred to in paragraph (1) 
     are the following:
       (A) The national government of the country.
       (B) Regional or local governmental units of the country.
       (C) Nongovernmental organizations, including for-profit, 
     not-for-profit, and voluntary organizations.
       (D) International organizations and trust funds.
       (g) Congressional Notification.--The Chief Executive 
     Officer may not make any grant or enter into any contract for 
     assistance for a country under section 202 that exceeds 
     $5,000,000 until 15 days after the date on which the Chief 
     Executive Officer provides notification of the proposed grant 
     or contract to the appropriate congressional committees in 
     accordance with the procedures applicable to reprogramming 
     notifications under section 634A of the Foreign Assistance 
     Act of 1961.
       (h) Prohibition on Use of Funds.--The prohibitions on use 
     of funds contained in paragraphs (1) through (3) of section 
     104(f) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 
     2151b(f)(1)-(3)) shall apply to funds made available to carry 
     out this division to the same extent and in the same manner 
     as such prohibitions apply to funds made available to carry 
     out part I of such Act.

     SEC. 204. MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE COMPACT.

       (a) Compact.--The President, acting through the Chief 
     Executive Officer of the Corporation, may provide assistance 
     to an eligible country under section 202 only if the country 
     enters into a contract with the United States, to be known as 
     a ``Millennium Challenge Compact'', that establishes a multi-
     year plan for achieving shared development objectives in 
     furtherance of the purposes of this title, and only if the 
     President, acting through the Chief Executive Officer, 
     provides to Congress notice regarding such Compact pursuant 
     to subsection (h).
       (b) Elements.--
       (1) In general.--The Compact shall take into account the 
     national development strategy of the eligible country and 
     shall contain--
       (A) the specific objectives that the country and the United 
     States expect to achieve;
       (B) the responsibilities of the country and the United 
     States in the achievement of such objectives;
       (C) regular benchmarks to measure, where appropriate, 
     progress toward achieving such objectives;
       (D) an identification of the intended beneficiaries, 
     disaggregated by income level, gender, and age, to the 
     maximum extent practicable;
       (E) a multi-year financial plan, including the estimated 
     amount of contributions by the Corporation and the country 
     and proposed mechanisms to implement the plan and provide 
     oversight, that describes how the requirements of 
     subparagraphs (A) through (D) will be met, including 
     identifying the role of civil society in the achievement of 
     such requirements;
       (F) where appropriate, a description of the responsibility 
     of other donors in the achievement of such objectives; and
       (G) a plan to ensure appropriate fiscal accountability for 
     the use of assistance provided under section 202.
       (2) Lower middle income countries.--In addition to the 
     elements described in subparagraphs (A) through (G) of 
     paragraph (1), with respect to a lower middle income country 
     described in section 203(b), the Compact shall identify an 
     appropriate contribution from the country relative to its 
     national budget, taking into account the prevailing economic 
     conditions, toward meeting the objectives of the Compact. 
     Such contribution shall be in addition to government spending 
     allocated for such purposes in the country's budget for the 
     year immediately preceding the establishment of the Compact 
     and shall continue for the duration of the Compact.

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       (c) Definition.--In subsection (b), the term ``national 
     development strategy'' means any strategy to achieve market-
     driven economic growth that has been developed by the 
     government of the country in consultation with a wide variety 
     of civic participation, including nongovernmental 
     organizations, private and voluntary organizations, academia, 
     women and student organizations, local trade and labor 
     unions, and the business community.
       (d) Additional Provision Relating to Prohibition on 
     Taxation.--In addition to the elements described in 
     subsection (b), each Compact shall contain a provision that 
     states that assistance provided by the United States under 
     the Compact shall be exempt from taxation by the government 
     of the eligible country.
       (e) Local Input.--In entering into a Compact, the United 
     States and the eligible country--
       (1) shall take into account the local-level perspectives of 
     the rural and urban poor in the eligible country; and
       (2) should consult with private and voluntary 
     organizations, the business community, and other donors, in 
     the eligible country.
       (f) Consultation.--During any discussions with a country 
     for the purpose of entering into a Compact with the country, 
     officials of the Corporation participating in such 
     discussions shall, at a minimum, consult with appropriate 
     officials of the United States Agency for International 
     Development, particularly with those officials responsible 
     for the appropriate region or country on development issues 
     related to the Compact.
       (g) Coordination with Other Donors.--To the maximum extent 
     feasible, activities undertaken to achieve the objectives of 
     the Compact shall be undertaken in coordination with the 
     assistance activities of other donors.
       (h) Congressional and Public Notification.--Not later than 
     15 days prior to entering into a Compact with an eligible 
     country, the President, acting through the Chief Executive 
     Officer--
       (1) shall consult in-person with the appropriate 
     congressional committees with respect to the proposed 
     Compact;
       (2) shall provide notification of the proposed Compact to 
     the appropriate congressional committees in accordance with 
     the procedures applicable to reprogramming notifications 
     under section 634A of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961;
       (3) shall prepare and transmit to such committees a written 
     report that contains a detailed summary of the proposed 
     Compact and a copy of the full text of the Compact; and
       (4) shall publish such detailed summary and full text of 
     the proposed Compact in the Federal Register and on the 
     Internet website of the Corporation.
       (i) Assistance for Development of Compact.--Notwithstanding 
     subsection (a), the Chief Executive Officer may enter into 
     contracts or make grants for any eligible country for the 
     purpose of facilitating the development of the Compact 
     between the United States and the country.

     SEC. 205. SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION OF ASSISTANCE.

       (a) Suspension of Assistance.--
       (1) In general.--The President shall suspend assistance in 
     whole or in part for a country under this title if the 
     President determines that--
       (A) the country is engaged in activities which are contrary 
     to the national security interests of the United States;
       (B) the elected head of state of the country or any member 
     of the country's highest judicial tribunal has been removed 
     from that office or forcibly detained through extra-
     constitutional processes; or
       (C) the country has failed to adhere to its 
     responsibilities under the Compact.
       (2) Reinstatement.--The President may reinstate assistance 
     for a country under this title only if the President 
     determines that the country has demonstrated a commitment to 
     correcting each condition for which assistance was suspended 
     under paragraph (1).
       (3) Congressional notification.--A suspension of assistance 
     under paragraph (1), or a reinstatement of assistance under 
     paragraph (2), shall be effective beginning 15 days after the 
     date on which the President transmits to the appropriate 
     congressional committees a report that contains the 
     determination of the President under paragraph (1) or 
     paragraph (2), as the case may be.
       (b) Termination of Assistance.--
       (1) In general.--The President, acting through the Chief 
     Executive Officer of the Corporation, shall terminate all 
     assistance for a country under this title if the President 
     determines that the country has consistently failed to adhere 
     to its responsibilities under the Compact or has 
     significantly failed to meet the requirements of this title.
       (2) Congressional notification.--A termination of 
     assistance under paragraph (1) shall be effective beginning 
     15 days after the date on which the President, acting through 
     the Chief Executive Officer, provides notification of the 
     proposed termination of assistance to the congressional 
     committees specified in section 634A(a) of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961 in accordance with the procedures 
     applicable to reprogramming notifications under that section.

     SEC. 206. ANNUAL REPORT.

       (a) Report.--Not later than April 1, 2005, and not later 
     than April 1 of each year thereafter, the Chief Executive 
     Officer of the Corporation shall prepare and transmit to the 
     appropriate congressional committees a report on the 
     implementation of this title for the preceding year.
       (b) Contents.--The report shall include the following:
       (1) A description and assessment of the eligibility 
     criteria and methodology utilized by the Chief Executive 
     Officer to determine eligibility for each country under 
     section 203.
       (2) A description of the agreed upon measures of progress 
     contained in each Compact.
       (3)(A) An analysis, on a country-by-country, project-by-
     project basis, of the impact of assistance provided under 
     this title on the economic development of each country.
       (B) For each country, the analysis shall--
       (i) to the maximum extent possible, be done on a sector-by-
     sector basis, gender basis, and per capita income basis, and 
     identify trends within each of these bases;
       (ii) identify economic policy reforms conducive to economic 
     development that are supported by assistance provided under 
     this title;
       (iii) describe, in quantified terms to the extent 
     practicable, the progress made in achieving assistance 
     objectives for the country;
       (iv) describe the amount and nature of economic assistance 
     provided by other major donors which further the purposes of 
     this title; and
       (v) discuss the commitment and contribution of the country 
     to achieving the assistance objectives contained in its 
     Compact.
       (4) A description and assessment of property rights in each 
     country, including--
       (A) the total value of legal and extralegal property and 
     business holdings;
       (B) the average time required to acquire land; and
       (C) the average time required to register and wind up a 
     business enterprise.

     SEC. 207. PARTICIPATION OF CERTAIN UNITED STATES BUSINESSES.

       (a) Participation.--To the maximum extent practicable, the 
     President, acting through the Chief Executive Officer, shall 
     ensure that United States small, minority-owned, and 
     disadvantaged business enterprises fully participate in the 
     provision of goods and services that are financed with funds 
     made available under this title.
       (b) Report.--The Chief Executive Officer shall prepare and 
     submit to the appropriate congressional committees an annual 
     report that contains a description of the extent to which the 
     requirement of subsection (a) has been met for the preceding 
     year.

     SEC. 208. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS; RELATED 
                   AUTHORITIES.

       (a) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized 
     to be appropriated to the President, acting through the Chief 
     Executive Officer of the Corporation, to carry out this 
     division (other than title IV) $1,300,000,000 for fiscal year 
     2004, $3,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2005, and $5,000,000,000 
     for fiscal year 2006.
       (b) Additional Authorities.--Amounts appropriated pursuant 
     to the authorization of appropriations under subsection (a)--
       (1) may be referred to as the ``Millennium Challenge 
     Account'';
       (2) are authorized to remain available until expended; and
       (3) are in addition to amounts otherwise available for such 
     purposes.

              TITLE III--MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION

     SEC. 301. MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION.

       (a) Establishment.--There is hereby established in the 
     executive branch a corporation to be known as the 
     ``Millennium Challenge Corporation'' that shall be 
     responsible for carrying out title II.
       (b) Government Corporation.--The Corporation shall be a 
     Government corporation, as defined in section 103 of title 5, 
     United States Code.

     SEC. 302. CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER.

       (a) Appointment.--The Corporation shall be headed by an 
     individual who shall serve as Chief Executive Officer of the 
     Corporation, who shall be appointed by the President, by and 
     with the advice and consent of the Senate.
       (b) Compensation and Rank.--
       (1) In general.--The Chief Executive Officer shall be 
     compensated at the rate provided for level II of the 
     Executive Schedule under section 5313 of title 5, United 
     States Code, and shall have the equivalent rank of Deputy 
     Secretary.
       (2) Amendment.--Section 5313 of title 5, United States 
     Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
       ``Chief Executive Officer, Millennium Challenge 
     Corporation.''.
       (c) Authorities and Duties.--The Chief Executive Officer 
     shall exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the 
     Corporation and any other duties, as conferred on the Chief 
     Executive Officer by the President.
       (d) Authority To Appoint Officers.--The Chief Executive 
     Officer shall appoint all officers of the Corporation.

     SEC. 303. BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

       (a) In General.--There shall be in the Corporation a Board 
     of Directors.
       (b) Duties.--The Board may prescribe, amend, and repeal 
     bylaws, rules, regulations, and procedures governing the 
     manner in which the business of the Corporation may be 
     conducted and in which the powers granted to it by law may be 
     exercised.
       (c) Membership.--
       (1) In general.--The Board shall consist of--

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       (A) the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Treasury, the 
     Administrator of the United States Agency for International 
     Development, the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation, 
     and the United States Trade Representative; and
       (B) four other individuals who shall be appointed by the 
     President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, 
     of which--
       (i) one individual shall be appointed from among a list of 
     individuals submitted by the majority leader of the House of 
     Representatives;
       (ii) one individual shall be appointed from among a list of 
     individuals submitted by the minority leader of the House of 
     Representatives;
       (iii) one individual shall be appointed from among a list 
     of individuals submitted by the majority leader of the 
     Senate; and
       (iv) one individual shall be appointed from among a list of 
     individuals submitted by the minority leader of the Senate.
       (2) Ex-officio members.--In addition to members of the 
     Board described in paragraph (1), the Director of the Office 
     of Management and Budget, the President and Chief Executive 
     Officer of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the 
     Director of the Trade and Development Agency, and the 
     Director of the Peace Corps shall be non-voting members, ex 
     officio, of the Board.
       (d) Terms.--
       (1) Officers of federal government.--Each member of the 
     Board described in paragraphs (1)(A) and (2) of subsection 
     (c) shall serve for a term that is concurrent with the term 
     of service of the individual's position as an officer within 
     the other Federal department or agency.
       (2) Other members.--Each member of the Board described in 
     subsection (c)(1)(B) shall be appointed for a term of 3 years 
     and may be reappointed for a term of an additional 2 years.
       (3) Vacancies.--A vacancy in the Board shall be filled in 
     the manner in which the original appointment was made.
       (e) Chairperson.--The Secretary of State shall serve as the 
     Chairperson of the Board.
       (f) Quorum.--A majority of the members of the Board shall 
     constitute a quorum, which shall include at least one member 
     of the Board described in subsection (c)(1)(B).
       (g) Meetings.--The Board shall meet at the call of the 
     Chairperson.
       (h) Compensation.--
       (1) Officers of federal government.--
       (A) In general.--A member of the Board described in 
     paragraphs (1)(A) and (2) of subsection (c) may not receive 
     additional pay, allowances, or benefits by reason of their 
     service on the Board.
       (B) Travel expenses.--Each such member of the Board shall 
     receive travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of 
     subsistence, in accordance with applicable provisions under 
     subchapter I of chapter 57 of title 5, United States Code.
       (2) Other members.--
       (A) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), a 
     member of the Board described in subsection (c)(1)(B)--
       (i) shall be paid compensation out of funds made available 
     for the purposes of this title at the daily equivalent of the 
     highest rate payable under section 5332 of title 5, United 
     States Code, for each day (including travel time) during 
     which the member is engaged in the actual performance of 
     duties as a member of the Board; and
       (ii) while away from the member's home or regular place of 
     business on necessary travel, as determined by the Chief 
     Executive Officer, in the actual performance of duties as a 
     member of the Board, shall be paid per diem, travel, and 
     transportation expenses in the same manner as is provided 
     under subchapter I of chapter 57 of title 5, United States 
     Code.
       (B) Limitation.--A member of the Council may not be paid 
     compensation under subparagraph (A)(i) for more than thirty 
     days in any calendar year.

     SEC. 304. INTERAGENCY COORDINATION.

       In carrying out the functions described in this title, and 
     consistent with section 101 of the National Security Act of 
     1947 (50 U.S.C. 402), the President shall ensure coordination 
     of assistance authorized under title II with foreign economic 
     assistance programs and activities carried out by other 
     Federal departments and agencies.

     SEC. 305. POWERS OF THE CORPORATION; RELATED PROVISIONS.

       (a) Powers.--The Corporation--
       (1) may adopt, alter, and use a corporate seal, which shall 
     be judicially noticed;
       (2) may prescribe, amend, and repeal such rules, 
     regulations, and procedures as are necessary for carrying out 
     the functions of the Corporation and all Compacts;
       (3) may make and perform such contracts, grants, and other 
     agreements with any individual, corporation, or other private 
     or public entity, however designated and wherever situated, 
     as may be necessary for carrying out the functions of the 
     Corporation;
       (4) may determine and prescribe the manner in which its 
     obligations shall be incurred and its expenses allowed and 
     paid, including expenses for representation not exceeding 
     $95,000 in any fiscal year;
       (5) may lease, purchase, or otherwise acquire, own, hold, 
     improve, use or otherwise deal in and with such property 
     (real, personal, or mixed) or any interest therein, wherever 
     situated, as may be necessary for carrying out the functions 
     of the Corporation;
       (6) may accept gifts or donations of services or of 
     property (real, personal, or mixed), tangible or intangible, 
     in furtherance of the purposes of this division;
       (7) may hire or obtain passenger motor vehicles;
       (8) may use the United States mails in the same manner and 
     on the same conditions as the Executive departments (as 
     defined in section 101 of title 5, United States Code);
       (9) may, with the consent of any Executive agency (as 
     defined in section 105 of title 5, United States Code), use 
     the information, services, facilities, and personnel of that 
     agency on a full or partial reimbursement in carrying out the 
     purposes of this division; and
       (10) may sue and be sued, complain, and defend, in its 
     corporate name in any court of competent jurisdiction.
       (b) Offices.--
       (1) Principal office.--The Corporation shall maintain its 
     principal office in the metropolitan area of Washington, 
     District of Columbia.
       (2) Other offices.--The Corporation may establish other 
     offices in any place or places outside the United States in 
     which the Corporation may carry out any or all of its 
     operations and business.
       (c) Cooperation With Other Federal Departments and 
     Agencies.--In order to avoid unnecessary expense and 
     duplication of functions, efforts, and activities between the 
     Corporation and other Federal departments and agencies the 
     Chief Executive Officer, or the Chief Executive Officer's 
     designee--
       (1)(A) shall consult, to the maximum extent practicable, 
     with the Administrator of the United States Agency for 
     International Development, or the Administrator's designee, 
     in order to coordinate the activities of the Corporation and 
     the Agency for International Development; and
       (B) shall consult with the heads of other departments and 
     agencies to ensure similar coordination of activities;
       (2)(A) shall ensure proper coordination of activities of 
     the Corporation with the provision of development assistance 
     of relevant international financial institutions, including 
     the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 
     the International Monetary Fund, and the regional 
     multilateral development banks; and
       (B) shall provide to each United States Executive Director 
     (or other United States representative) to the relevant 
     international financial institutions a copy of each proposed 
     Compact between the United States and an eligible country and 
     a copy of each such final Compact.
       (d) Positions with Foreign Governments.--When approved by 
     the Corporation, in furtherance of its purposes, employees of 
     the Corporation (including individuals detailed to the 
     Corporation) may accept and hold offices or positions to 
     which no compensation is attached with governments or 
     governmental agencies of foreign countries or with 
     international organizations.

     SEC. 306. TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY OF THE CORPORATION.

       The Corporation and its officers and employees shall be 
     subject to the provisions of section 552 of title 5, United 
     States Code (relating to freedom of information).

     SEC. 307. DETAIL OF PERSONNEL TO THE CORPORATION; OTHER 
                   AUTHORITIES AND LIMITATIONS.

       (a) Detail of Personnel.--Upon request of the Chief 
     Executive Officer of the Corporation, the head of an agency 
     may detail any employee of such agency to the Corporation on 
     a fully or partially reimbursable basis. Any employee so 
     detailed remains, for the purpose of preserving such 
     employee's allowances, privileges, rights, seniority, and 
     other benefits, an employee of the agency from which 
     detailed.
       (b) Limitation on Total Service.--
       (1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), no 
     individual may serve in or under the Corporation (whether as 
     an employee of the Corporation, a detailee to the 
     Corporation, or a combination thereof) for a total period 
     exceeding 5 years.
       (2) Exceptions.--
       (A) Extension authority.--The Chief Executive Officer may 
     extend the 5-year period under paragraph (1) for up to an 
     additional 3 years, in the case of any particular individual, 
     if the Chief Executive Officer determines that such extension 
     is essential to the achievement of the purposes of this 
     division.
       (B) Officers.--Nothing in this subsection shall limit the 
     period for which an individual may serve as an officer of the 
     Corporation appointed pursuant to section 302(d) nor shall 
     any period of service as such an officer be taken into 
     account for purposes of applying this subsection.
       (c) Reemployment Rights.--
       (1) In general.--An employee of an agency who is serving 
     under a career or career conditional appointment (or the 
     equivalent), and who, with the consent of the head of such 
     agency, transfers to the Corporation, is entitled to be 
     reemployed in such employee's former position or a position 
     of like seniority, status, and pay in such agency, if such 
     employee--
       (A) is separated from the Corporation--
       (i) by reason of the application of subsection (b); or
       (ii) for any other reason, other than misconduct, neglect 
     of duty, or malfeasance; and
       (B) applies for reemployment not later than 90 days after 
     the date of separation from the Corporation.
       (2) Specific rights.--An employee who satisfies paragraph 
     (1) is entitled to be reemployed (in accordance with such 
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     within 30 days after applying for reemployment and, on 
     reemployment, is entitled to at least the rate of basic pay 
     to which such employee would have been entitled had such 
     employee never transferred.
       (d) Basic Pay.--The Chief Executive Officer may fix the 
     rate of basic pay of employees of the Corporation without 
     regard to the provisions of--
       (1) chapter 51 of title 5, United States Code (relating to 
     the classification of positions), and
       (2) subchapter III of chapter 53 of such title (relating to 
     General Schedule pay rates),
     except that no employee of the Corporation may receive a rate 
     of basic pay that exceeds the rate for level II of the 
     Executive Schedule under section 5313 of such title.
       (e) Assignment to United States Embassies.--An employee of 
     the Corporation, including an individual detailed to or 
     contracted by the Corporation, may be assigned to a United 
     States diplomatic mission or consular post, or United States 
     Agency for International Development field mission.
       (f) Privileges and Immunities.--The Secretary of State 
     shall seek to ensure that an employee of the Corporation, 
     including an individual detailed to or contracted by the 
     Corporation, and the members of the family of such employee, 
     while the employee is performing duties in any country or 
     place outside the United States, enjoy the privileges and 
     immunities that are enjoyed by a member of the Foreign 
     Service, or the family of a member of the Foreign Service, as 
     appropriate, of comparable rank and salary of such employee, 
     if such employee or a member of the family of such employee 
     is not a national of or permanently resident in such country 
     or place.
       (g) Responsibility of Chief of Mission.--An employee of the 
     Corporation, including an individual detailed to or 
     contracted by the Corporation, and a member of the family of 
     such employee, shall be subject to section 207 of the Foreign 
     Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3927) in the same manner as 
     United States Government employees while the employee is 
     performing duties in any country or place outside the United 
     States if such employee or member of the family of such 
     employee is not a national of or permanently resident in such 
     country or place.
       (h) Allocation of Funds.--
       (1) In general.--The Corporation may allocate or transfer 
     to the United States Agency for International Development or 
     any other agency any part of any funds available for carrying 
     out the purposes of this division. Such funds shall be 
     available for obligation and expenditure for the purposes for 
     which authorized, in accordance with authority granted in 
     this title or under authority governing the activities of the 
     agencies of the United States Government to which such funds 
     are allocated or transferred.
       (2) Congressional notification.--The Chief Executive 
     Officer shall notify the appropriate congressional committees 
     not later than 15 days prior to a transfer of funds under 
     paragraph (1) that exceeds $5,000,000.
       (3) Use of services.--For carrying out the purposes of this 
     division, the Corporation may utilize the services and 
     facilities of, or procure commodities from, any agency under 
     such terms and conditions as may be agreed to by the head of 
     the agency and the Corporation.
       (i) Funding Limitation.--Of the funds allocated under 
     subsection (h) in any fiscal year, not more than 7 percent of 
     such funds may be used for administrative expenses.
       (j) Other authorities.--Except to the extent inconsistent 
     with the provisions of this division, the administrative 
     authorities under chapters 1 and 2 of part III of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961 shall apply to the provision of 
     assistance under this division to the same extent and in the 
     same manner as such authorities apply to the provision of 
     economic assistance under part I of such Act.
       (k) Applicability of Government Corporation Control Act.--
       (1) In general.--The Corporation shall be subject to the 
     provisions of chapter 91 of subtitle VI of title 31, United 
     States Code, except that the Corporation shall not be 
     authorized to issue obligations or offer obligations to the 
     public.
       (2) Conforming amendment.--Section 9101(3) of title 31, 
     United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 
     following:
       ``(Q) the Millennium Challenge Corporation.''
       (l) Inspector General.--
       (1) In general.--The Inspector General of the United States 
     Agency for International Development shall serve as Inspector 
     General of the Corporation, and, in acting in such capacity, 
     may conduct reviews, investigations, and inspections of all 
     aspects of the operations and activities of the Corporation.
       (2) Authority of the board.--In carrying out its 
     responsibilities under this subsection, the Inspector General 
     shall report to and be under the general supervision of the 
     Board of Directors.
       (3) Reimbursement and authorization of services.--
       (A) Reimbursement.--The Corporation shall reimburse the 
     United States Agency for International Development for all 
     expenses incurred by the Inspector General in connection with 
     the Inspector General's responsibilities under this 
     subsection.
       (B) Authorization for services.--Of the amount authorized 
     to be appropriated under section 208(a) for a fiscal year, up 
     to $1,000,000 is authorized to be made available to the 
     Inspector General of the United States Agency for 
     International Development to conduct reviews, investigations, 
     and inspections of operations and activities of the 
     Corporation.
       (m) Comptroller General.--
       (1) In general.--The Comptroller General shall conduct 
     audits, evaluations, and investigations of the Corporation.
       (2) Scope.--The activities and financial transactions of 
     the Corporation for any fiscal year during which Federal 
     funds are available to finance any portion of its operations 
     may be evaluated, investigated, or audited by the Comptroller 
     General in accordance with such rules and regulations as may 
     be prescribed by the Comptroller General.
       (3) Access and records.--Any evaluation, investigation, or 
     audit shall be conducted at the place or places where 
     pertinent information of the Corporation is normally kept. 
     The representatives of the General Accounting Office shall 
     have access to all books, accounts, financial records, 
     reports, files, and other papers or property belonging to or 
     in use by the Corporation and necessary to facilitate the 
     evaluation, investigation, or audit; and full facilities for 
     verifying transactions with the balances and securities held 
     by depositories, fiscal agents, and custodians shall be 
     afforded to such representatives. All such books, accounts, 
     financial records, reports, files, and other papers or 
     property of the Corporation shall remain in the possession 
     and custody of the Corporation throughout the period 
     beginning on the date such possession or custody commences 
     and ending three years after such date, but the General 
     Accounting Office may require the retention of such books, 
     accounts, financial records, reports, files, papers, or 
     property for a longer period under section 3523(c) of title 
     31, United States Code.
       (4) Report.--A report of such audit, evaluation, or 
     investigation shall be made by the Comptroller General to the 
     appropriate congressional committees and to the President, 
     together with such recommendations with respect thereto as 
     the Comptroller General shall deem advisable.
       (n) Definitions.--For purposes of this section--
       (1) the term ``agency'' means an Executive agency, as 
     defined by section 105 of title 5, United States Code; and
       (2) the term ``detail'' means the assignment or loan of an 
     employee, without a change of position, from the agency by 
     which such employee is employed to the Corporation.

     SEC. 308. MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE ADVISORY COUNCIL.

       (a) Establishment.--There is hereby established in the 
     executive branch an advisory council to the Corporation to be 
     known as the Millennium Challenge Advisory Council.
       (b) Functions.--
       (1) General functions.--The Council shall advise and 
     consult with the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation 
     and the Board of Directors with respect to policies and 
     programs designed to further the purposes of this division 
     and shall periodically report to the Congress with respect to 
     the activities of the Corporation. In addition, the Council 
     shall review on an annual basis the criteria and methodology 
     used to determine eligibility of countries for assistance 
     under title II and make recommendations to the Chief 
     Executive Officer and the Board to improve the effectiveness 
     of such criteria and methodology in order to achieve the 
     purposes of this division.
       (2) Additional functions.--Members of the Council shall 
     (subject to subsection (d)(1)) conduct on-site inspections, 
     and make examinations, of the activities of the Corporation 
     in the United States and in other countries in order to--
       (A) evaluate the accomplishments of the Corporation;
       (B) assess the potential capabilities and the future role 
     of the Corporation;
       (C) make recommendations to the Chief Executive Officer, 
     the Board of Directors, and Congress, for the purpose of 
     guiding the future direction of the Corporation and of 
     helping to ensure that the purposes and programs of the 
     Corporation are carried out in ways that are economical, 
     efficient, responsive to changing needs in developing 
     countries and to changing relationships among people, and in 
     accordance with law;
       (D) make such other evaluations, assessments, and 
     recommendations as the Council considers appropriate.
       (3) Public participation.--The Council may provide for 
     public participation in its activities, consistent with 
     section 552b of title 5, United States Code.
       (c) Membership.--
       (1) In general.--The Council shall consist of seven 
     individuals, who shall be appointed by the Chief Executive 
     Officer, and who shall be broadly representative of 
     nongovernmental entities with expertise and interest in 
     international trade and economic development, including 
     business and business associations, trade and labor unions, 
     private and voluntary organizations, foundations, public 
     policy organizations, academia, and other entities as the 
     Chief Executive Officer determines appropriate.
       (2) Additional requirement.--No member appointed under 
     paragraph (1) may be an officer or employee of the United 
     States Government.
       (d) Compensation.--
       (1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), a 
     member of the Council--

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       (A) shall be paid compensation out of funds made available 
     for the purposes of this title at the daily equivalent of the 
     highest rate payable under section 5332 of title 5, United 
     States Code, for each day (including travel time) during 
     which the member is engaged in the actual performance of 
     duties as a member of the Council; and
       (B) while away from the member's home or regular place of 
     business on necessary travel, as determined by the Chief 
     Executive Officer, in the actual performance of duties as a 
     member of the Council, shall be paid per diem, travel, and 
     transportation expenses in the same manner as is provided 
     under subchapter I of chapter 57 of title 5, United States 
     Code.
       (2) Limitation.--A member of the Council may not be paid 
     compensation under paragraph (1)(A) for more than thirty days 
     in any calendar year.
       (e) Quorum.--A majority of the members of the Council shall 
     constitute a quorum for the purposes of transacting any 
     business.
       (f) Financial interests of members.--A member of the 
     Council shall disclose to the Chairperson of the Council and 
     the Chief Executive Officer of the existence of any direct or 
     indirect financial interest of that member in any particular 
     matter before the Council and may not vote or otherwise 
     participate as a Council member with respect to that 
     particular matter.
       (g) Chairperson.--The Chief Executive Officer shall 
     designate one of the members of the Council as Chairperson, 
     who shall serve in that capacity for a term of two years. The 
     Chief Executive Officer may renew the term of the member 
     appointed as Chairperson under the preceding sentence.
       (h) Meetings, Bylaws, and Regulations.--
       (1) Meetings.--The Council shall hold a regular meeting 
     during each calendar quarter and shall meet at the call of 
     the President, the Chief Executive Officer, the Chairperson 
     of the Board, the Chairperson of the Council, or two members 
     of the Council.
       (2) Bylaws and regulations.--The Council shall prescribe 
     such bylaws and regulations as it considers necessary to 
     carry out its functions. Such bylaws and regulations shall 
     include procedures for fixing the time and place of meetings, 
     giving or waiving of notice of meetings, and keeping of 
     minutes of meetings.
       (i) Report to the President, Chief Executive Officer, and 
     Board.--
       (1) Report.--Not later than January 1, 2005, and not later 
     than January 1 of each year thereafter that the Corporation 
     is in existence, the Council shall submit to the President, 
     the Chief Executive Officer, and the Board a report on its 
     views on the programs and activities of the Corporation.
       (2) Contents.--Each report shall contain a summary of the 
     advice and recommendations provided by the Council to the 
     Chief Executive Officer and the Board during the period 
     covered by the report and such recommendations (including 
     recommendations for administrative or legislative action) as 
     the Council considers appropriate to make to the Congress.
       (3) Additional requirement.--Not later than 90 days after 
     receiving each such report, the Chief Executive Officer shall 
     transmit to Congress a copy of the report, together with any 
     comments concerning the report that the Chief Executive 
     Officer considers appropriate.
       (j) Administrative Assistance.--The Chief Executive Officer 
     shall make available to the Council such personnel, 
     administrative support services, and technical assistance as 
     are necessary to carry out its functions effectively.
       (k) Termination.--Section 14(a)(2)(B) of the Federal 
     Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.; relating to the 
     termination of advisory committees) shall not apply to the 
     Council. Notwithstanding section 102 of this Act, the 
     authorities of the Council shall terminate on December 31, 
     2007.

     SEC. 309. MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE SEED GRANTS.

       (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
       (1) Many countries in the developing world lack the 
     academic and public policy advocacy base essential to 
     attaining the principal objectives of the Millennium 
     Challenge Account.
       (2) Because of widespread government repression of free 
     speech and poverty, the countries of Africa in particular 
     suffer an acute shortage of nongovernmental organizations 
     which effectively study and promote the principal objectives 
     of the Millennium Challenge Account.
       (3) Many developing countries, particularly low income 
     countries, lack the institutional capacity to enhance the 
     quality and accuracy of data upon which the eligibility 
     criteria in section 203 relies. Such countries may also lack 
     the ability to monitor and evaluate development projects 
     effectively.
       (4) The Millennium Challenge Account will struggle to reach 
     its goals unless countries in the developing world possess a 
     home grown intellectual commitment and culture of advocacy 
     aimed at promoting its principal objectives.
       (b) Assistance.--The Chief Executive Officer of the 
     Corporation is authorized to provide assistance in support of 
     nongovernmental organizations (including universities, 
     independent foundations, and other organizations) in low 
     income and lower middle income countries, and, where 
     appropriate, directly to agencies of foreign governments in 
     low income countries, that are undertaking research, 
     education, and advocacy efforts aimed at promoting democratic 
     societies, human rights, the rule of law, improved 
     educational opportunities and health conditions, particularly 
     for women and children, and economic freedom, including 
     research aimed at improving data related to the eligibility 
     criteria and methodology established by this division with 
     respect to such a country or monitoring and evaluating the 
     impact of assistance provided under this division.
       (c) Limitation.--Not more than $10,000,000 of the amount 
     made available to carry out this division for a fiscal year 
     may be made available to carry out this section.

   TITLE IV--PROVISIONS RELATING TO UNITED STATES ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE

     SEC. 401. DEFINITION.

       In this title, the term ``United States economic 
     assistance'' means any bilateral economic assistance, from 
     any budget functional category, that is provided by any 
     department or agency of the United States to a foreign 
     country, including such assistance that is intended--
       (A) to assist the development and economic advancement of 
     friendly foreign countries and peoples, including assistance 
     provided under title II (relating to the Millennium Challenge 
     Account);
       (B) to promote the freedom, aspirations, or sustenance of 
     friendly peoples under oppressive rule by unfriendly 
     governments;
       (C) to promote international trade and foreign direct 
     investment as a means of aiding economic growth;
       (D) to save lives and alleviate suffering of foreign 
     peoples during or following war, natural disaster, or complex 
     crisis;
       (E) to assist in recovery and rehabilitation of countries 
     or peoples following disaster or war;
       (F) to protect refugees and promote durable solutions to 
     aid refugees;
       (G) to promote sound environmental practices;
       (H) to assist in development of democratic institutions and 
     good governance by the people of foreign countries;
       (I) to promote peace and reconciliation or prevention of 
     conflict;
       (J) to improve the technical capacities of governments to 
     reduce production of and demand for illicit narcotics; and
       (K) to otherwise promote through bilateral foreign economic 
     assistance the national objectives of the United States.

     SEC. 402. FRAMEWORK FOR ASSISTANCE.

       (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that a 
     coherent framework for United States economic assistance 
     should be established in accordance with this section.
       (b) Elements.--The framework described in subsection (a) 
     includes the following elements:
       (1) The United States Agency for International Development, 
     under the direction and foreign policy guidance of the 
     Secretary of State, should be responsible for--
       (A) providing assistance to countries that face natural and 
     man-made disasters in order to provide humanitarian relief to 
     the peoples of such countries, in coordination with refugee 
     programs administered by the Department of State;
       (B) providing assistance to countries that are suffering 
     from conflicts or are in post-conflict situations in order to 
     provide humanitarian relief, transition assistance, and 
     reconstruction assistance;
       (C) providing assistance to help moderate-to-poorly 
     performing countries achieve development progress in the 
     areas described in part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
     1961, including progress toward becoming eligible for 
     assistance under this title, and to promote international 
     health worldwide, as well as assisting in the development of 
     country and regional development strategies;
       (D) addressing transnational problems, such as 
     environmental degradation, food insecurity, and health 
     problems; and
       (E) assisting other Federal departments and agencies, 
     including the Corporation established under title III, to 
     carry out assistance activities abroad, including providing 
     technical assistance and advice to such departments and 
     agencies, coordinating its assistance programs with such 
     departments and agencies, and using its field offices to help 
     implement such assistance.
       (2) The Corporation established under title III should 
     provide assistance to countries that have demonstrated a 
     commitment to bolstering democracy, good governance, and the 
     rule of law, to investing in the health and educations of 
     their people, and to promoting sound economic policies that 
     foster economic opportunity for their people.
       (3) The Department of State should be responsible for 
     allocating security assistance to support key foreign policy 
     objectives of the United States and shall administer 
     assistance in such areas as non-proliferation, anti-
     terrorism, counter-narcotics, and relief for refugees.
       (4) Other Federal departments and agencies with expertise 
     in international development-related activities, such as the 
     Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the Trade and 
     Development Agency, the Department of Agriculture, the 
     Department of Health and Human Services, and the Centers for 
     Disease Control and Prevention, to the extent such 
     departments and agencies have the authority to carry out 
     development-related programs, and in coordination with the 
     Department of State and the United States Agency for 
     International Development, should provide expertise in 
     specific technical areas and shall provide assistance, 
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     provided with funds made available from the Corporation to 
     assist United States Government international development 
     activities.

     SEC. 403. REPORT RELATING TO IMPACT AND EFFECTIVENESS OF 
                   ASSISTANCE.

       (a) Report.--Not later than December 31, 2004, and December 
     31 of each third year thereafter, the President shall 
     transmit to Congress a report which analyzes, on a country-
     by-country basis, the impact and effectiveness of United 
     States economic assistance furnished under the framework 
     established in section 402 to each country during the 
     preceding three fiscal years. The report shall include the 
     following for each recipient country:
       (1) An analysis of the impact of United States economic 
     assistance during the preceding three fiscal years on 
     economic development in that country, with a discussion of 
     the United States interests that were served by the 
     assistance. This analysis shall be done on a sector-by-sector 
     basis to the extent possible and shall identify any economic 
     policy reforms which were promoted by the assistance. This 
     analysis shall--
       (A) include a description, quantified to the extent 
     practicable, of the specific objectives the United States 
     sought to achieve in providing economic assistance for that 
     country, and
       (B) specify the extent to which those objectives were not 
     achieved, with an explanation of why they were not achieved.
       (2) A description of the amount and nature of economic 
     assistance provided by other donors during the preceding 
     three fiscal years, set forth by development sector to the 
     extent possible.
       (3) A discussion of the commitment of the host government 
     to addressing the country's needs in each development sector, 
     including a description of the resources devoted by that 
     government to each development sector during the preceding 
     three fiscal years.
       (4) A description of the trends, both favorable and 
     unfavorable, in each development sector.
       (5) Statistical and other information necessary to evaluate 
     the impact and effectiveness of United States economic 
     assistance on development in the country.
       (6) A comparison of the analysis provided in the report 
     with relevant analyses by international financial 
     institutions, other international organizations, other donor 
     countries, or nongovernmental organizations.
       (b) Listing of Most and Least Successful Assistance 
     Programs.--The report required by this section shall 
     identify--
       (1) each country in which United States economic assistance 
     has been most successful, as indicated by the extent to which 
     the specific objectives the United States sought to achieve 
     in providing the assistance for the country, as referred to 
     in subsection (a)(1)(A), were achieved; and
       (2) each country in which United States economic assistance 
     has been least successful, as indicated by the extent to 
     which the specific objectives the United States sought to 
     achieve in providing the assistance for the country, as 
     referred to in subsection (a)(1)(A), were not achieved.

     For each country listed pursuant to paragraph (2), the report 
     shall explain why the assistance was not more successful and 
     shall specify what the United States has done as a result.
       (d) De Minimus Exception.--Information under subsections 
     (a) and (b) for a fiscal year shall not be required with 
     respect to a country for which United States economic 
     assistance for the country for the fiscal year is less than 
     $5,000,000.

      DIVISION B--REAUTHORIZATION AND EXPANSION OF THE PEACE CORPS

                      TITLE X--GENERAL PROVISIONS

     SEC. 1001. SHORT TITLE.

       This division may be cited as the ``Peace Corps Expansion 
     Act of 2003''.

     SEC. 1002. DEFINITIONS.

       In this division:
       (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
     ``appropriate congressional committees'' means the Committee 
     on International Relations of the House of Representatives 
     and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate.
       (2) Director.--The term ``Director'' means the Director of 
     the Peace Corps.
       (3) Host country.--The term ``host country'' means a 
     country whose government has invited the Peace Corps to 
     establish a Peace Corps program within the territory of the 
     country.
       (4) Peace corps volunteer.--The term ``Peace Corps 
     volunteer'' means a volunteer or a volunteer leader under the 
     Peace Corps Act.
       (5) Returned peace corps volunteer.--The term ``returned 
     Peace Corps volunteer'' means a person who has been certified 
     by the Director as having served satisfactorily as a Peace 
     Corps volunteer.

     SEC. 1003. FINDINGS.

       Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) The Peace Corps was established in 1961 to promote 
     world peace and friendship through the service abroad of 
     volunteers who are United States citizens. The spirit of 
     service and commitment to helping others is a fundamental 
     component of democracy.
       (2) Since its establishment, more than 168,000 volunteers 
     have served in the Peace Corps in 136 countries throughout 
     the world.
       (3) The three goals codified in the Peace Corps Act which 
     have guided the Peace Corps and its volunteers over the 
     years, can work in concert to promote global acceptance of 
     the principles of international peace and nonviolent 
     coexistence among peoples of diverse cultures and systems of 
     government.
       (4) The Peace Corps has sought to fulfill three goals--to 
     help people in developing countries meet basic needs, promote 
     understanding abroad of the values and ideals of the United 
     States, and promote an understanding of other peoples by the 
     people of the United States.
       (5) After more than 40 years of operation, the Peace Corps 
     remains the world's premier international service 
     organization dedicated to promoting grassroots development by 
     working with families and communities to improve health care 
     for children, expand agricultural production, teach in 
     schools, fight infectious diseases, protect the environment, 
     and initiate small business opportunities.
       (6) The Peace Corps remains committed to sending well 
     trained and well supported Peace Corps volunteers overseas to 
     promote international peace, cross-cultural awareness, and 
     mutual understanding between the United States and other 
     countries.
       (7) The Peace Corps is an independent agency, and, 
     therefore, no Peace Corps personnel or volunteers should be 
     used to accomplish any goal other than the goals established 
     by the Peace Corps Act.
       (8) The Crisis Corps has been an effective tool in 
     harnessing the skills and talents of returned Peace Corps 
     volunteers and should be expanded, to the maximum extent 
     practicable, to utilize the talent of returned Peace Corps 
     volunteers.
       (9) In fiscal year 2003, the Peace Corps is operating with 
     an annual budget of $295,000,000 in 70 countries, with more 
     than 7,000 Peace Corps volunteers.
       (10) There is deep misunderstanding and misinformation in 
     many parts of the world, particularly in countries with 
     substantial Muslim populations, with respect to United States 
     values and ideals. A new or expanded Peace Corps presence in 
     such places could foster better understanding between the 
     people of the United States and such countries.
       (11) Congress has declared, and the Peace Corps Act 
     provides, that the Peace Corps shall maintain, to the maximum 
     extent practicable and appropriate, a volunteer corps of at 
     least 10,000 individuals.
       (12) President George W. Bush has called for the doubling 
     of the number of Peace Corps volunteers in service.
       (13) Any expansion of the Peace Corps should not jeopardize 
     the quality of the Peace Corps volunteer experience and, 
     therefore, necessitates, among other things, an appropriate 
     increase in field and headquarters support staff.
       (14) In order to ensure that the proposed expansion of the 
     Peace Corps preserves the integrity of the program and the 
     security of volunteers, the integrated Planning and Budget 
     System supported by the Office of Planning and Policy 
     Analysis should continue its focus on strategic planning.
       (15) A streamlined, bipartisan Peace Corps National 
     Advisory Council composed of distinguished returned Peace 
     Corps volunteers, former Peace Corps staff, and other 
     individuals with diverse backgrounds and expertise can be a 
     source of ideas and suggestions that may be useful to the 
     Director of the Peace Corps as the Director discharges the 
     duties and responsibilities as head of the agency.

      TITLE XI--AMENDMENTS TO PEACE CORPS ACT; RELATED PROVISIONS

     SEC. 1101. ADVANCING THE GOALS OF THE PEACE CORPS.

       (a) Recruitment of Volunteers.--Section 2A of the Peace 
     Corps Act (22 U.S.C. 2501-1) is amended by adding at the end 
     the following new sentence: ``As an independent agency, the 
     Peace Corps shall be responsible for recruiting all of its 
     volunteers.''.
       (b) Details and Assignments.--Section 5(g) of the Peace 
     Corps Act (22 U.S.C. 2504(g)) is amended by striking 
     ``Provided, That'' and inserting ``Provided, That such detail 
     or assignment furthers the fulfillment of Peace Corps' 
     development and public diplomacy goals as described in 
     section 2: Provided further, That''.

     SEC. 1102. REPORTS AND CONSULTATIONS.

       (a) Annual Reports; Consultations on New Initiatives.--
     Section 11 of the Peace Corps Act (22 U.S.C. 2510) is amended 
     by striking the section heading and the text of section 11 
     and inserting the following:

     ``SEC. 11. ANNUAL REPORTS; CONSULTATIONS ON NEW INITIATIVES.

       ``(a) Annual Reports.--The Director shall transmit to 
     Congress, at least once in each fiscal year, a report on 
     operations under this Act. Each report shall contain 
     information--
       ``(1) describing efforts undertaken to improve coordination 
     of activities of the Peace Corps with activities of 
     international voluntary service organizations, such as the 
     United Nations volunteer program, and of host country 
     voluntary service organizations, including--
       ``(A) a description of the purpose and scope of any 
     development project which the Peace Corps undertook during 
     the preceding fiscal year as a joint venture with any such 
     international or host country voluntary service 
     organizations; and
       ``(B) recommendations for improving coordination of 
     development projects between the Peace Corps and any such 
     international or host country voluntary service 
     organizations;
       ``(2) describing--
       ``(A) any major new initiatives that the Peace Corps has 
     under review for the upcoming fiscal year, and any major 
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     that were undertaken in the previous fiscal year that were 
     not included in prior reports to the Congress;
       ``(B) the rationale for undertaking such new initiatives;
       ``(C) an estimate of the cost of such initiatives; and
       ``(D) the impact on the safety of volunteers;
       ``(3) describing in detail the Peace Corps plans, including 
     budgetary plans, to have 14,000 volunteers in service by 2007 
     while maintaining the quality of the volunteer experience, 
     ensuring the safety and security of all volunteers, and 
     providing for appropriate administrative and other support; 
     and
       ``(4) describing standard security procedures for any 
     country in which the Peace Corps operates programs or is 
     considering doing so, as well as any special security 
     procedures contemplated because of changed circumstances in 
     specific countries, and assessing whether security conditions 
     would be enhanced--
       ``(A) by co-locating volunteers with international or local 
     nongovernmental organizations; or
       ``(B) with the placement of multiple volunteers in one 
     location.
       ``(b) Consultations on New Initiatives.--The Director of 
     the Peace Corps shall consult with the appropriate 
     congressional committees with respect to any major new 
     initiatives not previously discussed in the latest annual 
     report submitted to Congress under subsection (a) or in 
     budget presentations. Whenever possible, such consultations 
     should take place prior to the initiation of such 
     initiatives, or as soon as practicable thereafter.''.
       (b) One-Time Report on Student Loan Forgiveness Programs.--
     Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this 
     Act, the Director shall submit to the appropriate 
     congressional committees a report--
       (1) describing the student loan forgiveness programs 
     currently available to Peace Corps volunteers upon completion 
     of their service;
       (2) comparing such programs with other Government-sponsored 
     student loan forgiveness programs; and
       (3) recommending any additional student loan forgiveness 
     programs which could attract more applications from low- and 
     middle-income individuals who are carrying considerable 
     student-loan debt burdens.
       (c) Annual Report to Congress on the Federal Equal 
     Opportunity Recruitment Program (FEORP).--Not later than 90 
     days after the date of enactment of this Act and annually 
     thereafter, the Director shall report on the progress of the 
     Peace Corps in recruiting historically underrepresented 
     groups. The Director shall prepare this report in accordance 
     with section 7201 of title 5, United States Code, and subpart 
     B of part 720 of title 5, Code of Federal Regulations.
       (d) Report on Maintaining the Integrity of the Medical 
     Screening and Medical Placement Coordination Processes.--Not 
     later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act, 
     the Director shall prepare and submit to the appropriate 
     congressional committees a report that--
       (1) describes the medical screening procedures and 
     standards of the Office of Medical Services/Screening Unit of 
     the Peace Corps to determine whether an applicant for Peace 
     Corps service has worldwide clearance, limited clearance, a 
     deferral period, or is not medically, including 
     psychologically, qualified to serve in the Peace Corps as a 
     volunteer;
       (2) describes the procedures and criteria for matching 
     applicants for Peace Corps service with a host country to 
     ensure that the applicant, reasonable accommodations 
     notwithstanding, can complete at least two years of volunteer 
     service without interruption to host country national 
     projects due to foreseeable medical conditions; and
       (3) with respect to each of fiscal years 2000 through 2002 
     and the first six months of fiscal year 2003, states the 
     number of--
       (A) medical screenings conducted;
       (B) applicants who have received worldwide clearance, 
     limited clearance, deferral periods, and medical 
     disqualifications to serve;
       (C) Peace Corps volunteers who the agency has had to 
     separate from service due to the discovery of undisclosed 
     medical information; and
       (D) Peace Corps volunteers who have terminated their 
     service early due to medical, including psychological, 
     reasons.

     SEC. 1103. SPECIAL VOLUNTEER RECRUITMENT AND PLACEMENT FOR 
                   CERTAIN COUNTRIES.

       (a) Report.--Not later than 60 days after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, the Director shall submit to the 
     appropriate congressional committees a report that--
       (1) describes the recruitment strategies to be employed by 
     the Peace Corps to recruit and train volunteers with the 
     appropriate language skills and interest in serving in host 
     countries; and
       (2) lists the countries that the Director has determined 
     should be priorities for special recruitment and placement of 
     Peace Corps volunteers.
       (b) Use of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers and Former 
     Staff.--The Director is authorized and strongly urged to 
     utilize the services of returned Peace Corps volunteers and 
     former Peace Corps staff who have relevant language and 
     cultural experience and may have served previously in 
     countries with substantial Muslim populations, in order to 
     open or reopen Peace Corps programs in such countries.

     SEC. 1104. GLOBAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES INITIATIVE; 
                   COORDINATION OF HIV/AIDS ACTIVITIES.

       (a) Initiative.--
       (1) In general.--The Director, in cooperation with 
     international public health experts, such as the Centers for 
     Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of 
     Health, the World Health Organization, the Pan American 
     Health Organization, and local public health officials, shall 
     expand the Peace Corps' program of training for Peace Corps 
     volunteers in the areas of education, prevention, and 
     treatment of infectious diseases which are prevalent in host 
     countries in order to ensure that the Peace Corps increases 
     its contribution to the global campaign against such 
     diseases.
       (2) Additional requirement.--Activities for the education, 
     prevention, and treatment of infectious diseases in host 
     countries by the Peace Corps shall be undertaken in a manner 
     that is consistent with activities authorized under sections 
     104(c), 104A, 104B, and 104C of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
     1961.
       (b) Coordination of HIV/AIDS Activities.--
       (1) In general.--The Director should designate an officer 
     or employee of the Peace Corps who is located in the United 
     States to coordinate all HIV/AIDS activities within the Peace 
     Corps. Such individual may be an individual who is an officer 
     or employee of the Peace Corps on the date of the enactment 
     of this Act.
       (2) Field coordination.--In addition to the position 
     established under paragraph (1), the Director should 
     designate an individual within each country in sub-Saharan 
     Africa, the Western Hemisphere, and Asia in which Peace Corps 
     volunteers carry out HIV/AIDS activities to coordinate all 
     such activities of the Peace Corps in such countries.
       (c) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) AIDS.--The term ``AIDS'' means the acquired immune 
     deficiency syndrome.
       (2) HIV.--The term ``HIV'' means the human immunodeficiency 
     virus, the pathogen that causes AIDS.
       (3) HIV/AIDS.--The term ``HIV/AIDS'' means, with respect to 
     an individual, an individual who is infected with HIV or 
     living with AIDS.
       (4) Infectious diseases.--The term ``infectious diseases'' 
     means HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.

     SEC. 1105. PEACE CORPS NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL.

       Section 12 of the Peace Corps Act (22 U.S.C. 2511; relating 
     to the Peace Corps National Advisory Council) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (b)(2)--
       (A) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``and'' after the 
     semicolon;
       (B) by redesignating subparagraph (D) as subparagraph (E); 
     and
       (C) by inserting after subparagraph (C) the following:
       ``(D) make recommendations for utilizing the expertise of 
     returned Peace Corps volunteers and former Peace Corps staff 
     in fulfilling the goals of the Peace Corps; and'';
       (2) in subsection (c)(2)--
       (A) in subparagraph (A)--
       (i) in the first sentence--

       (I) by striking ``fifteen'' and inserting ``eleven''; and
       (II) by striking ``President, by and with the advice and 
     consent of the Senate'' and inserting ``Director of the Peace 
     Corps'';

       (ii) by striking the second sentence and inserting the 
     following: ``Six of the members shall be former Peace Corps 
     volunteers, at least one of whom shall have been a former 
     staff member abroad or in the Washington headquarters, and 
     not more than six shall be members of the same political 
     party.'';
       (B) by striking subparagraph (B);
       (C) by amending subparagraph (D) to read as follows:
       ``(D) The members of the Council shall be appointed to 2-
     year terms.'';
       (D) in subparagraph (H), by striking ``nine'' and inserting 
     ``seven'';
       (E) in subparagraph (I), by striking ``President shall 
     nominate'' and inserting ``Director shall appoint''; and
       (F) by redesignating subparagraphs (C), (D), (E), (F), (G), 
     (H), and (I) as subparagraphs (B), (C), (D), (E), (F), (G), 
     and (H), respectively; and
       (3) by amending subsection (g) to read as follows:
       ``(g) Chair.--The Director shall designate one of the 
     voting members of the Council as Chair, who shall serve in 
     that capacity for a term of two years. The Director may renew 
     the term of a voting member appointed as Chair under the 
     preceding sentence.''.

     SEC. 1106. READJUSTMENT ALLOWANCES.

       The Peace Corps Act is amended--
       (1) in section 5(c) (22 U.S.C. 2504(c)), by striking ``$125 
     for each month of satisfactory service'' and inserting ``$275 
     for each month of satisfactory service during fiscal year 
     2004 and $300 for each month of satisfactory service 
     thereafter''; and
       (2) in section 6(1) (22 U.S.C. 2505(1)), by striking ``$125 
     for each month of satisfactory service'' and inserting ``$275 
     for each month of satisfactory service during fiscal year 
     2004 and $300 for each month of satisfactory service 
     thereafter''.

     SEC. 1107. PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS OF RETURNED PEACE CORPS 
                   VOLUNTEERS AND FORMER STAFF.

       (a) Purpose.--The purpose of this section is to provide 
     support for returned Peace Corps volunteers to develop and 
     carry out programs and projects to promote the objectives of 
     the Peace Corps Act, as set forth in section 2(a) of that Act 
     (22 U.S.C. 2501(a)).

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       (b) Grants to Certain Nonprofit Corporations.--
       (1) Grant authority.--
       (A) In general.--To carry out the purpose of this section, 
     and subject to the availability of appropriations, the 
     Director may award grants on a competitive basis to private 
     nonprofit corporations for the purpose of enabling returned 
     Peace Corps volunteers to use their knowledge and expertise 
     to develop and carry out the programs and projects described 
     in paragraph (2).
       (B) Delegation of authority and transfer of funds.--The 
     Director may delegate the authority to award grants under 
     subparagraph (A) and may transfer funds authorized under this 
     section subject to the notification procedures of section 
     634A of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to the Chief 
     Executive Officer of the Corporation for National and 
     Community Service (referred to in this section as the 
     ``Corporation'').
       (2) Programs and projects.--Such programs and projects may 
     include--
       (A) educational programs designed to enrich the knowledge 
     and interest of elementary school and secondary school 
     students in the geography and cultures of other countries 
     where the volunteers have served;
       (B) projects that involve partnerships with local libraries 
     to enhance community knowledge about other peoples and 
     countries; and
       (C) audio-visual projects that utilize materials collected 
     by the volunteers during their service that would be of 
     educational value to communities.
       (3) Eligibility for grants.--To be eligible to compete for 
     grants under this section, a nonprofit corporation shall have 
     a board of directors composed of returned Peace Corps 
     volunteers and former Peace Corps staff with a background in 
     community service, education, or health. If the grants are 
     made by the Corporation, the nonprofit corporation shall meet 
     all appropriate Corporation management requirements, as 
     determined by the Corporation.
       (c) Grant Requirements.--Such grants shall be made pursuant 
     to a grant agreement between the Peace Corps or the 
     Corporation and the nonprofit corporation that requires 
     that--
       (1) the grant funds will only be used to support programs 
     and projects described in subsection (a) pursuant to 
     proposals submitted by returned Peace Corps volunteers 
     (either individually or cooperatively with other returned 
     volunteers);
       (2) the nonprofit corporation will give consideration to 
     funding individual programs or projects by returned Peace 
     Corps volunteers, in amounts of not more than $50,000, under 
     this section;
       (3) not more than 20 percent of the grant funds made 
     available to the nonprofit corporation will be used for the 
     salaries, overhead, or other administrative expenses of the 
     nonprofit corporation;
       (4) the nonprofit corporation will not receive grant funds 
     for programs or projects under this section for a third or 
     subsequent year unless the nonprofit corporation makes 
     available, to carry out the programs or projects during that 
     year, non-Federal contributions--
       (A) in an amount not less than $2 for every $3 of Federal 
     funds provided through the grant; and
       (B) provided directly or through donations from private 
     entities, in cash or in kind, fairly evaluated, including 
     plant, equipment, or services; and
       (5) the nonprofit corporation shall manage, monitor, and 
     submit reports to the Peace Corps or the Corporation, as the 
     case may be, on each program or project for which the 
     nonprofit corporation receives a grant under this section.
       (d) Status of the Fund.--Nothing in this section shall be 
     construed to make any nonprofit corporation supported under 
     this section an agency or establishment of the Federal 
     Government or to make the members of the board of directors 
     or any officer or employee of such nonprofit corporation an 
     officer or employee of the United States.
       (e) Factors in Awarding Grants.--In determining the number 
     of nonprofit corporations to receive grants under this 
     section for any fiscal year, the Peace Corps or the 
     Corporation--
       (1) shall take into consideration the need to minimize 
     overhead costs that direct resources from the funding of 
     programs and projects; and
       (2) shall seek to ensure a broad geographical distribution 
     of grants for programs and projects under this section.
       (f) Congressional Oversight.--Grant recipients under this 
     section shall be subject to the appropriate oversight 
     procedures of Congress.
       (g) Funding.--
       (1) In general.--There is authorized to be appropriated to 
     carry out this section up to $10,000,000. Such sum shall be 
     in addition to funds made available to the Peace Corps under 
     this division.
       (2) Availability.--Amounts appropriated pursuant to 
     paragraph (1) are authorized to remain available until 
     expended.
       (h) Crisis Corps.--
       (1) Statement of policy.--Congress states that the Crisis 
     Corps has been an effective tool in harnessing the skills and 
     talents of returned Peace Corps volunteers.
       (2) Increase in number of crisis corps assignments.--The 
     Director, in consultation with the governments of host 
     countries and appropriate nongovernmental organizations, 
     shall increase the number of available Crisis Corps 
     assignments for returned Peace Corps volunteers to at least 
     120 assignments in fiscal year 2004, 140 assignments in 
     fiscal year 2005, 160 assignments in fiscal year 2006, and 
     165 assignments in fiscal year 2007.

     SEC. 1108. DECLARATION OF POLICY.

       Congress declares its support for the goal announced by 
     President Bush of doubling the number of Peace Corps 
     volunteers to 14,000 by 2007 and supports the funding levels 
     necessary to accomplish this growth.

     SEC. 1109. PEACE CORPS IN SIERRA LEONE.

       (a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) Peace Corps service to Sierra Leone was suspended in 
     1994 due to a brutal civil war between the government and the 
     Revolutionary United Front (RUF).
       (2) Backed by British military intervention and a United 
     Nations peacekeeping operation, government authority has been 
     reestablished throughout the country and ``free and fair'' 
     national elections took place in May 2002.
       (3) Sierra Leone is a majority Muslim country.
       (4) The Peace Corps has given the safety and security of 
     its volunteers high priority.
       (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that 
     the Peace Corps should return its program to Sierra Leone as 
     soon as security conditions are consistent with the safety 
     and security of its volunteers.

     SEC. 1110. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

       Section 3(b)(1) of the Peace Corps Act (22 U.S.C. 
     2502(b)(1)) is amended by striking ``and $365,000,000 fiscal 
     year 2003'' and inserting ``$365,000,000 for fiscal year 
     2003, $366,868,000 for fiscal year 2004, $411,800,000 for 
     fiscal year 2005, $455,930,000 for fiscal year 2006, and 
     $499,400,000 for fiscal year 2007''.

  The CHAIRMAN pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 316, the 
gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde) and a Member opposed each will 
control 10 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde).
  Mr. HYDE. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I rise today to offer amendment No. 2, which includes the text of 
H.R. 2441, the Millennium Challenge Account Authorization and Peace 
Corps Expansion Act of 2003.
  The Millennium Challenge Account is based on the revolutionary idea 
that countries must be accountable for their actions, be responsible 
for developing and advancing their own plans of progress, and must show 
results in order to receive economic assistance from the American 
taxpayer. The Peace Corps Expansion Act supports the President's vision 
that he described in this Chamber during his 2002 State of the Union 
address to double the number by the year 2007 of Peace Corps volunteers 
serving their Nation overseas.
  Many U.S. assistance programs have not achieved results over the 
years. Some assistance has allowed corrupt leaders to amass personal 
fortunes and remain in power beyond the will of the citizenry. Other 
aid has allowed leaders and governments to abdicate responsibility for 
effective governance and pursue detrimental, self-destructive, or 
personally self-enriching policies. Other assistance has gone to 
consultants or middlemen with little results to show in the end.
  These failures of the past should not lead us to turn our backs on 
the developing world. Just the opposite. Now is the time for American 
leadership and for America to recognize through its aid those countries 
that respect the rights of citizens, promote democracy, and encourage 
economic freedom and prosperity. However, we need to demonstrate what 
works and what does not, and we need to hold accountable those 
governments and leaders who do not choose the right path of reform.
  The President's proposal is the first serious attempt to address the 
fact that existing U.S. development assistance programs have 
consistently failed to meet their stated goals. Despite decades of 
economic aid, many Nations are poorer now than they were before first 
receiving development assistance. The President's proposal is 
enthusiastically supported by the relief and development 
nongovernmental community, as well as by the Heritage Foundation, the 
Wall Street Journal, and other organizations that have previously 
assailed foreign assistance as wasteful, inefficient, and ineffective.
  The U.S. must be more selective in aid distribution if the assistance 
is to be effective and a positive contributor to development. As 
proposed by the President and included in the legislation before us 
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willingly adopt good policies and institutions. Of the 70-or-so 
countries currently eligible for development assistance, it is possible 
that only 10 countries will meet the strict criteria stipulated by the 
President and endorsed in this bill.
  At the funding levels proposed, this may mean a very high level of 
assistance for MCA-eligible countries. The administration believes this 
will create a competition among cusp countries which may accelerate 
reforms and the adoption of good policies. This amendment endorses this 
approach.
  The President's proposal for a Millennium Challenge Account deserves 
our support. We should embrace the idea of increasing U.S. economic 
assistance but only to those countries that demonstrate a commitment to 
human rights, democratic ideals and practices, and investment in 
people.
  H.R. 2441, reported favorably by the Committee on International 
Relations, is truly a bipartisan bill that supports two of the 
President's key foreign policy initiatives and has more than 70 
cosponsors. The work of the gentleman from California (Mr. Lantos), the 
ranking member on this committee, has been indispensable; and I 
congratulate and thank him, and I urge my colleagues to support the 
Hyde-Lantos amendment, which incorporates the text from H.R. 2441.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  The CHAIRMAN pro tempore. Does the gentleman from California (Mr. 
Lantos) seek to control the time on the proposed amendment?
  Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Chairman, yes, I do.
  The CHAIRMAN pro tempore. The gentleman is recognized.
  Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  First, I want to commend my good friend and colleague, the gentleman 
from Illinois (Chairman Hyde), for the power and integrity of his 
convictions. The Millennium Challenge Account would not have been 
possible without his leadership and commitment to a bipartisan approach 
to international poverty reduction.
  The Millennium Challenge Account, as conceived by the President and 
crafted by the Committee on International Relations, marks the 
beginning of a revolution in U.S. international development assistance 
by recognizing the importance of democratic rule, good governance, and 
human rights. In achieving sustainable levels of economic growth and 
social development, the MCA creates the political and economic linkages 
critical to reducing poverty and to achieving progress.
  At the same time, the MCA removes the Cold War-era strategic calculus 
from the development assistance equation. Each potential recipient of 
our assistance is to be judged on its own merits, based on their 
commitment to progress and our commitment to the political, economic, 
social, and humanitarian value of development assistance.
  Finally, the MCA implicitly endorses a critical aspect of our 
approach to combatting international terrorism. Although the 
administration has not focused on this point, modern terrorism of the 
kind that struck our Nation on September 11 is fueled in part by the 
desperation and hopelessness that pervades much of the developing 
world. The MCA provides new hope, and as such, represents a powerful 
antidote to terrorism and other forms of violent conflict that have 
stalled the developing world.
  Mr. Chairman, when the Committee on International Relations held its 
first meeting on the MCA, I expressed a range of concerns about various 
aspects of the administration's initial proposal. I am pleased to say 
that the legislation included in this amendment has addressed 
satisfactorily each of my earlier concerns, and the Hyde-Lantos 
amendment before us has my very strong support.
  The administration's initial proposal relegated USAID, the most 
capable agency within our government in administering international 
assistance, to a bit part in managing this massive account. Our 
bipartisan amendment restores USAID to its rightful role by providing 
its administrator with a seat and a vote on the Millennium Challenge 
Corporation's board of directors. Together with the interagency 
coordination that our amendment requires, this improvement promises to 
strengthen the MCA considerably.
  Our bipartisan amendment also addresses my earlier concerns about the 
rigid application of strict eligibility criteria by mandating 
congressional and societal consultations on the finalization of 
criteria. By providing for an annual reevaluation process and by 
authorizing limited assistance to those countries on the cusp of 
eligibility, our legislation safeguards against the inherently 
arbitrary nature of mechanically selecting qualified states.
  Mr. Chairman, the Hyde-Lantos MCA amendment will not single handedly 
eradicate poverty, nor will it place the United States in the same 
company as Denmark, Norway, and the Netherlands, the global leaders in 
this field, in terms of per capita levels of development assistance; 
but our legislation will renew our commitment to poor, but striving, 
countries in our common fight against hunger and despair.
  Speaking as someone who as a youth experienced both tremendous 
deprivation and the bounty of American generosity, I can testify to the 
profound influence that U.S. assistance can have on shaping the 
perceptions of foreign nations of our great country.
  Mr. Chairman, allow me to conclude by addressing the reauthorization 
of the Peace Corps, which is also included in this amendment. It is 
fitting that we consider the Millennium Challenge Account and the Peace 
Corps jointly because both are critical to enhancing U.S. international 
development assistance.
  Since President Kennedy first deployed the Peace Corps in 1961, the 
program's 168,000 volunteers, men and women, young and old, have made 
an immeasurable contribution to reducing poverty and promoting American 
values literally all over the globe. Reauthorizing this inspirational 
initiative is clearly in our national interests and in the interests of 
reducing poverty and restoring hope across the globe.
  Two of our colleagues deserve special recognition for bringing the 
Peace Corps reauthorization before us. The gentlewoman from Minnesota 
(Ms. McCollum), a new, but invaluable, member of our committee, and the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Farr), a former Peace Corps volunteer 
himself, were instrumental in crafting this amendment; and I am deeply 
indebted to both of them.
  Mr. Chairman, today this Chamber has the opportunity to reauthorize 
the Peace Corps and to establish the Millennium Challenge Account. Both 
initiatives offer the best hope to defeat international poverty and 
international terrorism, and I strongly urge all of my colleagues to 
support the Hyde-Lantos amendment.

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  Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. HYDE. I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. 
Green).
  Mr. GREEN of Wisconsin. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for 
yielding me this time.
  Mr. Chairman, some months ago, I met with an American ambassador 
posted in an Islamic nation. That ambassador said she often heard the 
charge that America was losing the battle for the hearts and minds of 
the young Muslim world. She said to me that that charge was untrue. It 
was not that we were losing the battle, but that we are not even in it.
  Mr. Chairman, today, by supporting the Millennium Challenge Account, 
we step into the fray not just with respect to young Muslims but to 
Africans in general and Asians and Latin Americans and others in the 
underdeveloped world who have all too often been left behind or been 
left out.
  There is so much to commend the Millennium Challenge Account. For 
conservatives, it will bring greater accountability and results in our 
foreign assistance. For internationalists, it will dramatically 
increase foreign assistance. For all of us, this legislation, in very 
bold ways, rewards and encourages and reinforces those policies that 
will root out corruption, policies that will produce education reform, 
a commitment to health care, and, most importantly, greater freedom.
  Mr. Chairman, during these troubled times, the best thing I can say 
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that it will make a historic difference in our long struggle with 
terrorism. An observer recently noted that in our long battle with the 
threat of terrorism it is not enough for us to merely hunt down the 
terrorists. We must also shut down the schools and institutions and the 
policies that churn out wave after wave of hate-filled attackers. We 
cannot destroy all the terrorists and potential terrorists. We cannot 
capture every last bomb and every bullet. We have to change their minds 
as well. And we can only do so by showing them in compassionate ways 
our values and our principles in action.
  We must attack those conditions that foster despair, because despair 
can lead to radicalism; and in tyranny that radicalism can lead to 
vivid evil violence, violence that we have seen too painfully in recent 
months.
  The Millennium Challenge Account must be our answer. It offers 
resources to those in need. It shows beyond doubt that Americans care 
about the plight of humanity. And, finally, it rewards those leaders 
who are committed to freedom and reform and the values and the 
principles that everyone in this Chamber holds dear.
  I commend the President for his vision in introducing the Millennium 
Challenge Account. I commend and thank the chairman of the Committee on 
International Relations and the ranking member for their leadership in 
bringing it here today. I congratulate them. Together, my friends, we 
are making history, in my view, in a very positive way.
  Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Chairman, I am very pleased to yield 2 minutes to the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Farr), my good friend and colleague and 
a former Peace Corps volunteer.
  Mr. FARR. Mr. Chairman, I want to thank my colleagues, the Chair and 
ranking member of the Committee on International Relations, for this 
great piece of legislation that is coming before us. I want to express 
my particular appreciation for the inclusion of the Peace Corps 
Expansion Act in this bill.
  Five of us now serving in the United States House of Representatives 
are returned Peace Corps volunteers, and we very much appreciate the 
work of this committee to strengthen the Peace Corps. I want to thank 
the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde) and the ranking member, the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Lantos), for their leadership in 
bringing this important bill to the floor.
  The Peace Corps was, for me, a life-challenging experience, a life-
changing experience as well as challenging. The Peace Corps Expansion 
Act will help offer this unique experience to more Americans than ever 
before. I would like to engage in a brief colloquy with the 
distinguished ranking member about an amendment that I offered that was 
not made in order for this rule. My understanding is that the gentleman 
has had the opportunity to familiarize himself with the amendment, 
known as the Winning The Peace Act of 2003 that seeks to strengthen 
U.S. capabilities in responding to the challenges of postconflict 
reconstruction.
  The framework for the amendment is the result of my work and that of 
my colleagues, the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Wolf) and the gentleman 
from Nebraska (Mr. Bereuter), on the Post-Conflict Reconstruction 
Commission.
  Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. FARR. I yield to the gentleman from California.
  Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Chairman, I am fully aware of the gentleman's 
excellent amendment, and I support his efforts in enhancing our 
capability to provide post-conflict reconstruction assistance.
  The legislation of the gentleman addresses the importance of 
providing a coherent strategy in the provision of assistance to 
postconflict reconstruction in countries and regions. In today's world, 
we are continually faced with humanitarian disasters, wars and other 
crises, and enhancing our capability in providing reconstruction 
assistance in times of such crises is a vital and necessary goal that 
we must achieve.
  I want to commend my friend for proposing this very useful approach.
  Mr. FARR. Reclaiming my time, Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for 
his comments, and I look forward to working both with the chairman and 
the ranking member on this important legislation.
  Mr. HYDE. Mr. Chairman, I am pleased to yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the 
distinguished gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Harris).
  (Ms. HARRIS asked and was given permission to revise and extend her 
remarks.)
  Ms. HARRIS. Mr. Chairman, H.R. 2441, the Millennium Challenge Account 
Authorization Act of 2003 implements President Bush's historic 
initiative to comprehensively reform how the United States designs, 
implements, and monitors its financial assistance to the developing 
world.
  The President proposed the Millennium Challenge Account, or MCA, as 
the vehicle for realizing, in his words, ``a new compact for global 
development defined by a new accountability for both rich and poor 
nations alike.'' The testimony that this committee heard on March 6 
confirmed that many U.S. financial assistance programs have fallen 
short of their objective in past years. Basing aid allocations upon 
recipient governments' pledges of future reform, these programs have 
often funded corruption and waste.
  Instead of lifting countries out of poverty, the American taxpayer 
money has lined the pockets of corrupt leaders, consultants and 
middlemen while perpetuating inefficient and counterproductive 
government policies. Particularly in the post 9-11 environment, these 
concerns must not deter us from attempting to foster freedom and 
prosperity throughout the world. Quite to the contrary, our national 
security and defense from terrorism depends upon how well we promote 
these national precursors of peace and stability.
  Through the MCA, the United States will gradually increase its annual 
aid to developing nations. Unlike the current economic assistance 
programs, however, the MCA will distribute this additional assistance 
based upon the existing record and achievements of eligible nations 
rather than upon the promises of their governments.
  Mr. Chairman, this legislation is not perfect, and in particular I 
remain concerned that the provisions in the current bill limiting the 
participation of middle income nations will exclude many of our Latin 
American neighbors that still wrestle with large intractable pockets of 
poverty. For moral, strategic, and economic reasons, the challenges 
that confront Latin America must remain at the top of our priorities of 
our foreign aid and strategy.
  As the legislative process continues, I will persist in drawing 
attention to this critical issue. Many Latin American nations can serve 
as strategic models for the reforms that this legislation tries to 
encourage.
  Notwithstanding this one concern, I believe we stand at the cusp of a 
remarkable achievement. I commend President Bush and our honorable 
chairman for their extraordinary vision and foresight in proposing this 
aptly named initiative. They have truly posed a challenge to the 
nations we seek to assist and a challenge to us all as well.
  Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Chairman, I am delighted to yield 1 minute to the 
gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Payne), the distinguished ranking member 
of our Subcommittee on Africa.
  (Mr. PAYNE asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. PAYNE. Mr. Chairman, let me commend the gentleman from Illinois 
(Mr. Hyde) and the ranking member, the gentleman from California (Mr. 
Lantos), for bringing this important legislation to the floor.
  When President Bush announced his MCA initiative, I originally was 
skeptical and concerned about the rigid eligibility criteria and those 
groups who would be determined eligible. But after considering what the 
MCA could do for development around the world, I offer my support; and 
I have worked with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to make 
sure this program works and also to make sure not only that we do not 
cut back our other foreign assistance commitment but to keep this 
program and bring it to its full force.
  During the recent trip of the President, he spoke about the MCA and 
pledged to the heads of state from Africa his commitment to make sure 
that the Millennium Challenge Account is fully funded. I am concerned 
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fact that the MCA is not fully funded and this Congress has only 
appropriated $800 million this past cycle. How will we ever make the $5 
billion we were supposed to do over a 3-year period? The administration 
requested $1.3 billion, but only $800 million has been appropriated.
  So I urge the restoring of the full amount to the Millennium account.
  The CHAIRMAN pro tempore (Mr. Ose). The Committee will rise 
informally.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Green of Wisconsin) assumed the Chair.

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