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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 324 

To prohibit monetary payments by the Federal Government to employees, 

officers, and elected officials of foreign countries for purposes of bribery, 

coercion, or any activity that is illegal or undermines the rule of law 

or corrupts a public officer or the office such officer represents, and 

for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 8, 2019 

Ms. LEE of California introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 

as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

To prohibit monetary payments by the Federal Government 

to employees, officers, and elected officials of foreign 

countries for purposes of bribery, coercion, or any activity that is illegal or undermines the rule of law or corrupts a public officer or the office such officer represents, 

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, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘No More Ghost Money 

3 Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

5 Congress finds the following: 

6 (1) On May 4, 2013, President of Afghanistan 

7 Hamid Karzai revealed that the Central Intelligence 

8 Agency regularly made cash payments to his office. 

9 (2) The corrupt practice of making such pay10 ments undermines the rule of law and undercuts a 

11 central strategic United States goal in Afghanistan: 

12 Establishing a credible and transparent Afghan gov13 ernment responsive to popular concerns. 

14 SEC. 3. PROHIBITION OF PAYMENTS TO INDIVIDUALS AF15 FILIATED WITH FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS. 

16 (a) PROHIBITION.—Subject to section 5, no depart17 ment or agency of the Federal Government or contractor 

18 to the Federal Government may make a monetary pay19 ment to an employee, officer, elected official, or represent20 ative of the government of a foreign country for the pur21 poses of bribery, coercion, or any activity that is illegal 

22 or undermines the rule of law or corrupts a public officer 

23 or the office such officer represents. 

24 (b) PROCEDURES.—The President shall establish 

25 procedures to carry out and enforce the prohibition under 

26 subsection (a). 


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1 SEC. 4. REPORT ON PAYMENTS TO INDIVIDUALS AFFILI2 ATED WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF AFGHANI3 STAN. 

4 Subject to section 5, not later than 180 days after 

5 the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the 

6 Central Intelligence Agency shall submit to Congress a re7 port on all monetary payments made by the Central Intel8 ligence Agency to employees, officers, elected officials, or 

9 representatives of the Government of Afghanistan on or 

10 after September 11, 2001. Such report shall include— 

11 (1) a description of all payments made to em12 ployees, officers, elected officials, or representatives 

13 of the Government of Afghanistan on or after Sep14 tember 11, 2001, including any receipts provided by 

15 such employees, officers, elected officials, or rep16 resentatives and, to the extent possible, copies of 

17 such receipts; 

18 (2) the legal basis for making such payments; 

19 (3) the strategic goals supported by such pay20 ments; and 

21 (4) the effectiveness of such payments in 

22 achieving such strategic goals. 

23 SEC. 5. NATIONAL SECURITY WAIVER. 

24 The President may waive a requirement of section 3 

25 or 4 if the President certifies to Congress that fulfilling 


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1 such requirement would harm the national security of the 

2 United States or members of the Armed Forces. 

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