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117TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 4025 

To require additional disclosures with respect to nominees to serve as chiefs 

of missions, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

APRIL 7, 2022 

Mr. KAINE (for himself and Mr. BOOKER) introduced the following bill; which 

was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 

A BILL 

To require additional disclosures with respect to nominees 

to serve as chiefs of missions, 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 ‘‘Ambassador Oversight 

5 and Transparency Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL DISCLOSURES REQUIRED WITH RE7 SPECT TO NOMINEES. 

8 Section 304 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 

9 U.S.C. 3944) is amended— 


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1 (1) in subsection (a)(4), by adding at the end 

2 the following: ‘‘Each such report shall explain the 

3 source and the extent of such nominee’s knowledge 

4 of the principal language or dialect of the country, 

5 region, or institution in which the nominee has been 

6 nominated to serve as chief of mission and the man7 ner and extent to which such nominee meets the cri8 teria described in paragraph (1), particularly with 

9 respect to the source and extent of such individual’s 

10 knowledge and understanding of the history, culture, 

11 economics, politics, and interests of the people of 

12 such country, region, or institution.’’; and 

13 (2) in subsection (b)— 

14 (A) in paragraph (2)— 

15 (i) by striking ‘‘Each’’ and inserting 

16 the following: ‘‘(A) In this paragraph— 

17 ‘‘(i) the term ‘bundled contribution’ has the 

18 meaning given such term in section 304(i)(8)(A) of 

19 the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (52 

20 U.S.C. 30104(i)(8)(A)); 

21 ‘‘(ii) the term ‘contribution’ has the meaning 

22 given such term in section 301(8) of the Federal 

23 Election Campaign Act of 1971 (52 U.S.C. 

24 30101(8)); and 

25 ‘‘(iii) the term ‘immediate family’ means— 


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1 ‘‘(I) the spouse of the nominee; 

2 ‘‘(II) any child, parent, grandparent, 

3 brother, or sister of the nominee; and 

4 ‘‘(III) the spouse of any of the individuals 

5 described in subclause (II). 

6 ‘‘(B) Each’’; 

7 (ii) in subparagraph (B), as redesig8 nated, by striking ‘‘fourth calendar year’’ 

9 and inserting ‘‘tenth calendar year’’; 

10 (iii) by striking ‘‘The report’’ and in11 serting the following: 

12 ‘‘(C) The report shall include the disclosure of all 

13 bundled contributions facilitated by the nominee during 

14 the period described in subparagraph (B), in accordance 

15 with section 304(i)(8) of the Federal Election Campaign 

16 Act of 1971 (52 U.S.C. 30104(i)(8)), and’’; 

17 (iv) by striking ‘‘The chairman’’ and 

18 inserting the following: 

19 ‘‘(D) The chairman’’; 

20 (v) in subparagraph (D), as redesig21 nated, by adding at the end the following: 

22 ‘‘The Secretary of State shall publish each 

23 such report and each ‘Certificate of Com24 petency’ issued pursuant to subsection 


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1 (a)(4)(A) on a publicly available website of 

2 the Department of State.’’; and 

3 (vi) by striking ‘‘As used in this para4 graph’’ and all that follows; and 

5 (B) by adding at the end the following: 

6 ‘‘(3) The President shall certify to the Committee on 

7 Foreign Relations of the Senate that any contributions 

8 made by each individual nominated to be a chief of mission 

9 or members of the nominee’s immediate family, whether 

10 or not included in the report described in paragraph (2), 

11 played no role in such nomination.’’. 

12 SEC. 3. MANAGEMENT ASSESSMENTS AT DIPLOMATIC AND 

13 CONSULAR POSTS. 

14 (a) IN GENERAL.—Beginning not later than 1 year 

15 after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 

16 of State shall annually conduct, at each diplomatic and 

17 consular post, a universal survey, which shall be completed 

18 by all staff assigned to that post who are citizens of the 

19 United States (excluding the chief of mission) to assess 

20 the management and leadership of that post by the chief 

21 of mission. 

22 (b) ANONYMITY.—All responses to the survey shall 

23 be anonymized before being made available to the relevant 

24 regional assistant secretary of the Department of State 

25 and the Director General of the Foreign Service. 


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1 (c) REFERRAL.—If corrective action does not resolve 

2 deficiencies in performance by the chief of mission identi3 fied by the survey, the Director General of the Foreign 

4 Service may refer the matter to the Inspector General of 

5 the Department of State, who shall conduct an inspection 

6 of the post in accordance with section 209(b) of the For7 eign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3929(b)). 

8 (d) ANNUAL REPORT.—The Director General of the 

9 Foreign Service shall submit an annual report to the Com10 mittee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Com11 mittee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives 

12 that— 

13 (1) identifies the posts at which corrective ac14 tion was taken as a result of responses from a sur15 vey described in subsection (a); 

16 (2) describes the performance deficiencies iden17 tified by the survey and the corrective action taken 

18 to remediate such deficiencies; and 

19 (3) explains the reasons for not referring the 

20 matter to the Inspector General of the Department 

21 of State and the Foreign Service. 

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