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115TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 802 

To prohibit Senegal from receiving certain forms of development assistance 

for a two-year period and make available such assistance to Rwanda 

and Uganda, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

FEBRUARY 1, 2017 

Mr. MEADOWS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Foreign Affairs 

A BILL 

To prohibit Senegal from receiving certain forms of development assistance for a two-year period and make available 

such assistance to Rwanda and Uganda, 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 ‘‘Aid to Allies Act’’. 

5 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

6 Congress finds the following: 

7 (1) The United States established diplomatic 

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1 pendence from France and after the disbanding of 

2 the Mali Federation. 

3 (2) As of 2014, the United States had provided 

4 Senegal with a cumulative total of $2,500,000,000 

5 in foreign assistance. 

6 (3) In 2009, Senegal signed a compact with the 

7 Millennium Challenge Corporation that spanned 

8 from 2010 to 2015 and provided $540,000,000 to 

9 support large-scale transportation and water infra10 structure projects. 

11 (4) In December 2015, the Millennium Chal12 lenge Corporation selected Senegal as eligible to de13 velop a second compact. 

14 (5) The Administration’s fiscal year 2017 budg15 et request for bilateral assistance to Senegal totaled 

16 $103,100,000, including— 

17 (A) $56,000,000 for global health pro18 grams; 

19 (B) $44,800,000 for development assist20 ance; 

21 (C) $1,000,000 for international military 

22 education and training; 

23 (D) $1,000,000 for nonproliferation, 

24 antiterrorism, demining and related programs; 

25 and 


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1 (E) $300,000 for foreign military financ2 ing. 

3 (6) On December 23, 2016, Senegal was one of 

4 four co-sponsors of United Nations Security Council 

5 Resolution 2334 (2016), which described the Israeli 

6 neighborhoods in the West Bank as illegally occu7 pied. The resolution was adopted by a vote of 14– 

8 0 with the United States abstaining. 

9 SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 

10 It is the sense of Congress that— 

11 (1) in periods of constrained resources and 

12 when the national debt is nearly 

13 $20,000,000,000,000, all budget items deserve scru14 tiny, especially foreign aid dollars; 

15 (2) rather than continuing to assist foreign gov16 ernments that undermine our foreign allies, those 

17 dollars would be better spent in countries that sup18 port and defend the shared interests of the Amer19 ican people; and 

20 (3) the Board of the Millennium Challenge Cor21 poration should not enter into any compact with 

22 Senegal under section 609 of the Millennium Chal23 lenge Act of 2003 (22 U.S.C. 7708) until the Chief 

24 Executive Officer of the Millennium Challenge Cor25 poration submits to Congress a report regarding the 


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1 eligibility of Senegal to meet the criteria specified in 

2 section 607(b) of such Act (22 U.S.C. 7706(b)) that 

3 considers the impact on such eligibility of— 

4 (A) Senegal’s co-sponsorship of United Na5 tions Security Council Resolution 2334 (2016); 

6 and 

7 (B) other governance issues with respect to 

8 Senegal. 

9 SEC. 4. LIMITATION ON EXPENDITURES THROUGH DEVEL10 OPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS. 

11 (a) IN GENERAL.—For the two-year period beginning 

12 on the date of the enactment of this Act, no funds may 

13 be obligated or expended for assistance to Senegal author14 ized under part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 

15 (22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.) except for assistance through a 

16 program described in subsection (c). 

17 (b) REPROGRAMMING OF WITHHELD FUNDS.— 

18 Funds withheld by reason of subsection (a) may be made 

19 available for assistance to Rwanda or to Uganda author20 ized under part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 

21 (22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.), in accordance with the proce22 dures applicable to reprogramming notifications under 

23 section 634A of such Act (22 U.S.C. 2394–1). 

24 (c) EXCEPTED PROGRAMS.—The programs described 

25 in this subsection are the following: 


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1 (1) The President’s Malaria Initiative. 

2 (2) The Feed the Future program. 

3 (3) The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS 

4 Relief. 

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