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SEMIANNUAL COMMITTEE ACTIVITY REPORT AND

FOREIGN RELATIONS AUTHORIZATION ACT,

FISCAL YEAR 2013

MARKUP

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

ONE HUNDRED TWELFTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

H.R. 6018

JUNE 27, 2012

Serial No. 112–176

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COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS 

ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN, Florida, Chairman 

CHRISTOPHER H. SMITH, New Jersey 

DAN BURTON, Indiana 

ELTON GALLEGLY, California 

DANA ROHRABACHER, California 

DONALD A. MANZULLO, Illinois 

EDWARD R. ROYCE, California 

STEVE CHABOT, Ohio 

RON PAUL, Texas 

MIKE PENCE, Indiana 

JOE WILSON, South Carolina 

CONNIE MACK, Florida 

JEFF FORTENBERRY, Nebraska 

MICHAEL T. MCCAUL, Texas 

TED POE, Texas 

GUS M. BILIRAKIS, Florida 

JEAN SCHMIDT, Ohio 

BILL JOHNSON, Ohio 

DAVID RIVERA, Florida 

MIKE KELLY, Pennsylvania 

TIM GRIFFIN, Arkansas 

TOM MARINO, Pennsylvania 

JEFF DUNCAN, South Carolina 

ANN MARIE BUERKLE, New York 

RENEE ELLMERS, North Carolina 

ROBERT TURNER, New York 

HOWARD L. BERMAN, California 

GARY L. ACKERMAN, New York 

ENI F.H. FALEOMAVAEGA, American 

Samoa 

BRAD SHERMAN, California 

ELIOT L. ENGEL, New York 

GREGORY W. MEEKS, New York 

RUSS CARNAHAN, Missouri 

ALBIO SIRES, New Jersey 

GERALD E. CONNOLLY, Virginia 

THEODORE E. DEUTCH, Florida 

DENNIS CARDOZA, California 

BEN CHANDLER, Kentucky 

BRIAN HIGGINS, New York 

ALLYSON SCHWARTZ, Pennsylvania 

CHRISTOPHER S. MURPHY, Connecticut 

FREDERICA WILSON, Florida 

KAREN BASS, California 

WILLIAM KEATING, Massachusetts 

DAVID CICILLINE, Rhode Island 

YLEEM D.S. POBLETE, Staff Director 

RICHARD J. KESSLER, Democratic Staff Director 

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C O N T E N T S 

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MARKUP OF 

Semiannual Committee Activity Report ................................................................ 2

H.R. 6018, Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2013 .................... 26

APPENDIX 

Markup notice .......................................................................................................... 108

Markup minutes ...................................................................................................... 109

The Honorable Gerald E. Connolly, a Representative in Congress from the 

Commonwealth of Virginia: Prepared statement .............................................. 111

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SEMIANNUAL COMMITTEE ACTIVITY REPORT 

AND FOREIGN RELATIONS AUTHORIZATION 

ACT, FISCAL YEAR 2013

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 2012

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS, 

Washington, DC. 

The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:30 a.m. in room 

2172, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen 

(chairman of the committee) presiding. 

Chairman ROS-LEHTINEN. The committee will come to order. 

There are nine markups going on, none as interesting as this 

one, so stay around. We are going to go through it quickly. 

Pursuant to notice, the committee meets today to approve our 

semiannual activities report and to mark up the Foreign Relations 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013. 

According to the expedited procedures I shared with all members 

yesterday, we will consider and approve these consensus measures 

at the outset. Afterwards, I will recognize myself, my good friend, 

the ranking member, Mr. Berman, and any member wishing recognition for remarks. 

Without objection, all members may have 5 days to insert written remarks into the record on any of today’s business. 

The committee will now consider our Semiannual Legislative Review and Oversight Activities Report as required by House Rule XI. 

Without objection, the June 2012 report text that members have 

in front of them, which was provided in draft form from last 

Wednesday and posted online earlier this week, is considered read. 

[The information referred to follows:]

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Chairman ROS-LEHTINEN. The Chair moves that the report be 

adopted by the committee. 

All those in favor, say aye. 

All opposed, no. 

In the opinion of the Chair, the ayes have it, and the report is 

approved. 

We now consider the Foreign Relations Authorization bill, which 

was provided to your office, as I said, in draft form last week and 

in final form Monday morning. The clerk will report the bill. 

Ms. CARROLL. H.R. 6018, to authorize appropriations for the Department of State for Fiscal Year 2013, and for other purposes. 

Chairman ROS-LEHTINEN. Without objection, the bill is considered read and open for amendment at any point. 

[H.R. 6018 follows:]

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Chairman ROS-LEHTINEN. Hearing no amendments and reporting 

a quorum being present, the Chair moves that the committee approve H.R. 6018 as introduced. 

All those in favor, say aye. Aye. 

All opposed, no. 

In the opinion of the Chair, the ayes have it; and the bill is 

agreed to. 

Without objection, the bill is ordered favorably reported. Staff is 

directed to make technical and conforming changes, and the Chair 

is authorized to seek consideration under suspension of the rules. 

Members with competing committee assignments, of which there 

are many this morning, will be pleased to know that we have now 

concluded the operative portion of today’s business. I will now recognize members who wish to make statements on today’s bill, beginning with myself and the ranking member. 

I want to thank the ranking member and all members on both 

sides of the aisle for their cooperation in this bipartisan effort to 

draft and adopt a State Department authorization bill for Fiscal 

Year 2013. H.R. 6018 is a carefully crafted bill, focusing on the 

basic funding and operational authorities on which we have been 

able to reach bipartisan agreement. 

Despite significant efforts by this committee, the Department of 

State has not been authorized for nearly a decade. The last authorization bill to become law, coauthored by our esteemed former 

chairmen Henry Hyde and Tom Lantos, whose portraits grace us 

now, was enacted in September 2002. 

The lack of authorities in the intervening years has eroded our 

foreign policy leverage with our primary agency of jurisdiction, the 

Department of State. By adopting this bill this morning, the committee strengthens its role in exercising effective oversight of the 

Department of State and fulfills our obligation to the American 

public. 

The text authorizes basic funding for the State Department, the 

Broadcasting Board of Governors, and the Peace Corps at fiscally 

responsible levels coordinated with the Appropriations Committee. 

Most accounts are authorized at the bipartisan levels from Fiscal 

Year 2012 from that omnibus bill. 

H.R. 6018 also includes management reforms to increase the efficiency, accountability, and safety of our personnel overseas. It establishes important jurisdiction and oversight authorities in the expanding fields of cybersecurity, counterterrorism, communications, 

and arms export controls. It helps American businesses by modifying the arms export control authorities to reduce obstacles and 

streamline the process for exporting selected equipment and parts. 

At the same time, it enhances U.S. security by increasing safeguards against the transfer of U.S. technologies to state sponsors 

of terrorism and countries subject to U.S. arms embargoes. 

For all of these reasons, H.R. 6018 deserves the bipartisan support that it received this morning. I am confident that the strong 

signal sent by today’s committee action will lead to prompt consideration by the full House and, ultimately, the enactment of these 

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I again want to thank the ranking member and, indeed, all of 

our members for their assistance and cooperation; and I am now 

pleased to recognize——

Mr. ROHRABACHER. Madam Chairman? 

Chairman ROS-LEHTINEN. Yes, Mr. Rohrabacher? 

Mr. ROHRABACHER. Congratulations. Thank you. 

Chairman ROS-LEHTINEN. Thank you, sir. We will always recognize you for that. 

I am now so pleased to recognize my friend, the ranking member, 

for his remarks on the legislation. 

Mr. BERMAN. Thank you very much, Madam Chairman. If this 

is the most interesting of the nine markups, I would hate to see 

the most boring. 

Madam Chairman, I want to start out by thanking you and your 

staff, especially Yleem Poblete and Doug Anderson, for working 

closely with us to ensure that this markup produces a consensus 

bill. 

The State Department authorization bill is one of the most fundamental legislative responsibilities of this committee and provides 

the basis for our Embassies to function and our diplomats to promote U.S. national interests around the world. 

Our national security rests on three pillars: Diplomacy, development, and defense. Every year the Armed Services Committee 

manages to report its bill providing authorities and resources for 

the Pentagon. The longer we go without providing the authority 

and resources our State Department needs to promote international cooperation, the greater the temptation for other committees and other departments to step in. 

With this bill, the committee is once again asserting at least 

some jurisdiction over the funding and operations of the State Department. This is an opportunity for us to demonstrate the capacity 

to work together to get things done and to promote our national interests. 

I hope we can all agree that the military ought to be our last line 

of defense, the option to which we resort after all other avenues 

have been closed off. Yet, by ignoring and shortchanging our diplomats, we only increase the likelihood of an armed confrontation. 

Whether in Afghanistan, where a strengthened diplomatic presence 

is needed to enable a military withdrawal, or in the Sahel, where 

terrorist groups are making new gains, our Foreign Service Officers 

are at the front lines of protecting U.S. national security. This bill 

gives them the tools they need to be successful. We owe the brave 

men and women who put their lives on the line, military and civilian alike, no less. 

That said, this is by no means a perfect or comprehensive bill. 

It contains certain provisions I would prefer to see removed. It 

leaves out a long list of provisions I would like to see added. By 

and large, the numbers are well below Fiscal Year 2013 request 

levels, and lower than what I think is proper to exert strong and 

effective international leadership. But the chairman has worked 

with us over the past weeks to make the changes necessary to arrive at a text that has the best shot of moving forward. 

This bill contains no funding for foreign assistance programs, nor 

does it include any proposals for foreign aid reform. Those topics 

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should also be high priorities for this committee, and I look forward 

to working with the chairman on provisions to address how our foreign aid dollars are spent. Accounting for just 1 percent of the overall budget, foreign assistance is a small but wise investment in a 

better, safer world. Our job is to ensure that it is spent in the most 

efficient and effective way. 

The bill also does not contain any country-specific provisions or 

any findings or sense of Congress language. While I note that all 

of us have pressing things we would want to say about U.S. policy 

toward a wide range of countries and problems, I respect the chairman’s view that progress on asserting our jurisdiction is paramount and that there will be other business meetings and other 

markups where those kinds of proposals can be considered on their 

merits. If we want our committee to be taken seriously so that our 

jurisdiction is protected and our views carry weight with other 

committees, then we need to report legislation, at the very least, 

that can be passed by the full House. 

Let me describe a few of the bill’s key provisions in greater detail. 

It includes a number of provisions to better protect our men and 

women serving abroad as well as their families. It allows the State 

Department to award local guard contracts in high-risk areas on 

the basis of best value rather than on who had the lowest bid. In 

the past, lowest bids had sometimes resulted in poorly trained security forces that endangered the safety of our diplomats and development experts. This bill also better protects the children of 

U.S. employees who attend school overseas by improving the physical security at these locations. 

More importantly, by allowing the Secretary to transfer authorities to the recently created Counterterrorism, Conflict and Stabilization Operations, and Energy Resources Bureaus, this act reflects the organizational changes that have taken place at the Department as a result of what I hope will be the first of regular 

Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Reviews. 

The bill also incorporates most of H.R. 3288, the Safeguarding 

U.S. Satellite Leadership and Security Act. It was also adopted as 

an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act. This bipartisan provision would help restore America’s global competitiveness in high-tech satellite technology and protect vital U.S. national security interests. 

Madam Chairman, you and your staff have produced a good and 

fair piece of legislation. Equally important, you have taken our 

views into account. I would urge my colleagues to do what they 

have already done, and that is to approve this legislation not only 

on its merits, but also as an expression of support for enhancing 

comity and bipartisanship in our committee. 

I thank the chair, and you might not believe it, but this is actually a shorter statement than I was planning on giving, and I will 

yield back the balance of my time. 

Chairman ROS-LEHTINEN. I thank my good friend, Mr. Berman, 

for that opening statement; and I am pleased to yield 5 minutes 

to Mr. Royce of California. 

Mr. ROYCE. Thank you, Madam Chairman; and I would also like 

to thank you, I would like to thank Ranking Member Berman for 

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the support of a provision that I inserted in this legislation to expand the authority of the State Department to go after those who 

commit crimes against humanity, such as Joseph Kony. 

As you know, the existing State Department’s rewards program 

has largely focused recently on terrorists. They focus on drug traffickers. We had a hearing, Madam Chair, where we heard the results of some of that effect of the rewards program where those 

who were involved in trafficking, for example, when captured 

would say there was nobody they could turn to; they felt like a 

wanted man. Well, that is exactly the type of emotion we are trying 

to engender here, and this program does this. The provisions in the 

bill now would expand the program, and it would also target something else we want to affect, and that is transnational organized 

crime. There will be a rewards program to induce people to come 

forward. 

And lastly, and I think very importantly, those who are wanted 

for the most serious human rights abuses—and this responds to 

two things. One, the growing ties between terrorists and 

transnational criminals. We target those who assist terrorists and 

those who assist the drug cartels with weapons, those involved in 

weapons trafficking, those involved in sophisticated forgeries, 

money laundering; and, importantly, then this legislation will also 

allow the rewards program to target those wanted for genocide, for 

war crimes, crimes against humanity. These are the world’s worst 

human rights abusers that we are trying to focus on. 

A target of this, of course, will be Joseph Kony and the top commanders of the Lord’s Resistance Army. This group has terrorized 

northern Uganda as well as Central Africa now for two decades. 

The crimes that they commit there are unspeakable; and, in accordance with U.S. policy, a small team of U.S. troops are currently 

in the field helping local forces hunt for these killers. 

Our U.S. troops have indicated to us that they believe that a rewards program would help them if it is aimed at Kony. It will help 

them generate intelligence. It will bolster their efforts. They are 

asking for this provision. They think this can make a difference for 

them on the ground, and let’s answer their call. 

Thank you, Madam Chair, for including this; and we look forward to trying to speed this legislation along to the Senate. 

Chairman ROS-LEHTINEN. We sure do. Thank you, Mr. Royce. 

Mr. Connolly of Virginia is recognized. 

Mr. CONNOLLY. Thank you, Madam Chairman. 

I know that I speak for myself and certainly my friend, Mr. 

Chandler from Kentucky, when I say mirabile dictu, wondrous to 

relate, having a markup this smooth, this uncomplicated, lacking 

in controversial policy riders, bringing us together on a bipartisan 

basis. I think you and your staff and Mr. Berman, the ranking 

member, and his staff are to be commended for bringing us together. 

I look forward to supporting this. There are many provisions in 

here, particularly those involving commercial satellite technology, 

that I think are a big improvement over existing policy; and I 

hope—I applaud Mr. Berman in introducing the legislation and you 

in adopting it as an amendment. 

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And, of course, I also associate myself with the remarks of our 

friend from California, Mr. Royce, in other provisions that I think 

are going to make a difference in human rights and getting finally 

Joseph Kony brought to justice. 

So thank you, Madam Chairman, and thank you to your respective staffs for your leadership and the ranking member as well. 

Chairman ROS-LEHTINEN. Thank you, sir. 

Mr. Chandler is recognized. 

Mr. CHANDLER. Madam Chairwoman, since I was referred to in 

my colleague’s remarks, I just want to thank my Irish friend for 

his Latin eloquence. 

Chairman ROS-LEHTINEN. Thank you very much. 

Mr. Faleomavaega. 

Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA. Madam Chair, I didn’t realize I was going 

to come this quickly. 

I thank you, Madam Chair, and certainly our ranking member 

for the spirit of bipartisanship and working so hard in putting this 

authorization bill together. Madam Chair, I certainly want to commend both you and our ranking member, Mr. Berman, for doing 

this; and I am sure that my colleagues on this side of the aisle are 

very happy that we have come to a very good conclusion in reaching an agreement on how we can pass this legislation as soon as 

we can. 

With that, I yield back. 

Chairman ROS-LEHTINEN. The gentleman yields back. 

Hearing no further requests for recognition, I want to thank 

again all of our colleagues on both sides of the aisle for the hard 

work and cooperation that went into today’s meeting; and, with 

that, the committee stands adjourned. 

[Whereupon, at 10:21 a.m., the committee was adjourned.] 

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