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116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 8907 

To direct the Secretary of State to establish a unit within the Office of 

the Inspector General to audit United States contributions to multilateral 

and international organizations, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

DECEMBER 9, 2020 

Mr. BERGMAN (for himself, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Mr. CRENSHAW, 

and Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana) introduced the following bill; which was 

referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 

A BILL 

To direct the Secretary of State to establish a unit within 

the Office of the Inspector General to audit United 

States contributions to multilateral and international organizations, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘International Spending 

5 Transparency Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. AUDIT OF UNITED STATES CONTRIBUTIONS TO 

2 MULTILATERAL AND INTERNATIONAL ORGA3 NIZATIONS. 

4 (a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after the 

5 date of the enactment of this section, the Secretary shall 

6 establish within the Office of Audits of the Office of the 

7 Inspector General of the Department of State a unit to 

8 be known as the ‘‘Unit to Audit US Contributions to Mul9 tilateral and International Organizations’’. 

10 (b) ANNUAL AUDIT.— 

11 (1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than December 31 

12 of each year, the unit established pursuant to sub13 section (a) shall submit to the Secretary an audit of 

14 United States contributions to multilateral and 

15 international organizations during the immediately 

16 preceding fiscal year. 

17 (2) ELEMENTS.—Each audit under paragraph 

18 (1) shall include the following: 

19 (A) Information relating to— 

20 (i) the aggregate amount of United 

21 States contributions to recipient multilat22 eral and international organizations; 

23 (ii) the amount of contributions spent 

24 on administrative costs in comparison to 

25 projects; and 


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1 (iii) the purposes for each such con2 tribution. 

3 (B) An analysis relating to— 

4 (i) whether each such organization 

5 achieved the purpose for the contributions; 

6 (ii) fraud, waste, or abuse of such 

7 contributions by each such organization; 

8 and 

9 (iii) whether the contributions re10 ceived by each such organization were in 

11 turn provided directly or indirectly to— 

12 (I) the People’s Republic of 

13 China; 

14 (II) the Russian Federation; 

15 (III) the Islamic Republic of 

16 Iran; 

17 (IV) the Democratic People’s Re18 public of Korea; 

19 (V) the Bolivarian Republic of 

20 Venezuela; 

21 (VI) the Syrian Arab Republic; 

22 or 

23 (VII) an organization designated 

24 as a foreign terrorist organization 

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1 gration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 

2 1189). 

3 (C) Information relating to the challenges 

4 of citizens of the United States seeking employ5 ment in the United Nations. 

6 (D) Information relating to the whistle7 blower protection standards of multilateral and 

8 international organizations receiving contribu9 tions. 

10 (c) REPORT.—Not later than 30 days after the re11 ceipt of each audit under subsection (a), the Secretary 

12 shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees 

13 a report based on the information and analysis in each 

14 such audit. 

15 (d) LIMITATION.—No additional appropriations are 

16 authorized to carry out this section, which shall be carried 

17 out using amounts otherwise authorized to be appro18 priated to the Department of State. 

19 (e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

20 (1) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT21 TEES.—the term ‘‘appropriate congressional commit22 tees’’ means— 

23 (A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs in 

24 the House of Representatives; and 


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1 (B) the Committee on Foreign Relations in 

2 the Senate. 

3 (2) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 

4 the Secretary of State. 

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