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(c) The prohibition in subsection (b) may be waived 
on a country by country basis if the President determines 
that doing so is in the national security interest of the 
United States: Provided, That prior to exercising such 
waiver authority, the President shall submit a report to 
the Committees on Appropriations, in classified form if 
necessary, on— 
(1) the steps being taken to obtain the coopera-
tion of the government in surrendering the indictee 
in question to the court of jurisdiction; 
(2) a strategy, including a timeline, for bringing 
the indictee before such court; and 
(3) the justification for exercising the waiver 
authority. 
COMBATTING PIRACY OF UNITED STATES COPYRIGHTED 
MATERIALS 
SEC. 695. (a) PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.—The Sec-
retary of State may carry out a program of activities to 
combat piracy in countries that are not members of the 
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development 
(OECD), including activities as follows: 
(1) The provision of equipment and training for 
law enforcement, including in the interpretation of 
intellectual property laws.
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(2) The provision of training for judges and 
prosecutors, including in the interpretation of intel-
lectual property laws. 
(3) The provision of assistance in complying 
with obligations under applicable international trea-
ties and agreements on copyright and intellectual 
property. 
(b) CONSULTATION WITH WORLD INTELLECTUAL 
PROPERTY ORGANIZATION.—In carrying out the program 
authorized by subsection (a), the Secretary shall, to the 
maximum extent practicable, consult with and provide as-
sistance to the World Intellectual Property Organization 
in order to promote the integration of countries described 
in subsection (a) into the global intellectual property sys-
tem. 
(c) FUNDING.—Of the amount appropriated or other-
wise
made
available
under
the
heading
‘‘INTER-
NATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL AND LAW EN-
FORCEMENT’’, $5,000,000 may be made available in 
fiscal year 2008 for the program authorized by subsection 
(a). 
OVERSIGHT OF IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION 
SEC. 696. (a) Section 3001 of the Emergency Supple-
mental Appropriations Act for Defense and for the Recon-
struction of Iraq and Afghanistan, 2004 (Public Law 108– 
106; 117 Stat. 1238; 5 U.S.C. App., note to section 8G
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of Public Law 95–452), as amended by section 1054(b) 
of the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act 
for Fiscal Year 2007 (Public Law 109–364; 120 Stat. 
2397), section 2 of the Iraq Reconstruction Accountability 
Act of 2006 (Public Law 109–440), and section 3801 of 
the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans’ Care, Katrina Recov-
ery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007 
(Public Law 110–28) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (h)(1) by striking ‘‘pay rates.’’ 
and inserting ‘‘pay rates, and may exercise the au-
thorities of subsections (b) through (i) of section 
3161 of title 5, United States Code (without regard 
to subsection (a) of such section).’’; 
(2) in subsection (o)(1)(B) by striking ‘‘fiscal 
year 2006 or fiscal year 2007’’ and inserting ‘‘fiscal 
years 2006 through 2008’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end of such section the fol-
lowing subsection: 
‘‘(p) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—For the purposes of 
carrying out the duties of the Inspector General, any 
United States funds appropriated or otherwise made avail-
able for fiscal years 2006 through 2008 for the reconstruc-
tion of Iraq, irrespective of the designation of such funds, 
shall be deemed to be amounts appropriated or otherwise
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made available to the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction 
Fund.’’. 
(b) Section 1054(a) of Public Law 109–364 is 
amended by striking ‘‘fiscal year 2006’’ and inserting ‘‘fis-
cal years 2006 through 2008’’. 
UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS RENOVATION 
SEC. 697. It is the sense of the Congress that the 
amount of any loan for the renovation of the United Na-
tions headquarters building located in New York, New 
York, should not exceed $600,000,000: Provided, That if 
any loan exceeds $600,000,000, the Secretary of State 
shall notify the Congress of the current cost of the renova-
tion and cost containment measures. 
NEGLECTED DISEASES 
SEC. 698. Of the funds appropriated under the head-
ing ‘‘Child Survival and Health Programs Fund’’, not less 
than $18,000,000 shall be made available to support an 
integrated response to the control of neglected diseases in-
cluding intestinal parasites, schistosomiasis, lymphatic fil-
ariasis, onchocerciasis, trachoma and leprosy: Provided, 
That the Administrator of the United States Agency for 
International Development shall consult with the Commit-
tees on Appropriations, representatives from the relevant 
international technical and nongovernmental organizations 
addressing the specific diseases, recipient countries, donor 
countries, the private sector, UNICEF and the World
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Health Organization: (1) on the most effective uses of 
such funds to demonstrate the health and economic bene-
fits of such an approach; and (2) to develop a multilateral, 
integrated initiative to control these diseases that will en-
hance coordination and effectiveness and maximize the le-
verage of United States contributions with those of other 
donors: Provided further, That funds made available pur-
suant to this section shall be subject to the regular notifi-
cation procedures of the Committees on Appropriations. 
ASSISTANCE FOR EGYPT 
SEC. 699. (a) FOREIGN MILITARY FINANCING PRO-
GRAM.—Of the funds appropriated by this Act for Egypt 
under the heading ‘‘FOREIGN MILITARY FINANCING 
PROGRAM’’, $200,000,000 shall not be made available 
for obligation until the Secretary of State certifies and re-
ports to the Committees on Appropriations that the Gov-
ernment of Egypt has taken concrete and measurable 
steps to— 
(1) enact and implement a new judicial author-
ity law that protects the independence of the judici-
ary; 
(2) review criminal procedures and train police 
leadership in modern policing to curb police abuses; 
and
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(3) detect and destroy the smuggling network 
and smuggling tunnels that lead from Egypt to 
Gaza. 
RELIEF FOR THE HMONG AND MONTAGNARDS 
SEC. 699A. Section 212(a)(3)(B) of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(3)(B)), is amend-
ed by adding at the end the following new clause: ‘‘Clause 
(vi) shall not apply to the Hmong or Montagnards on the 
basis of any act or event occurring in or before 1975’’.T 
Section 212(a)(3)(B)(ii) of the Immigration and Na-
tionality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(3)(B)(ii)) is amended by 
striking ‘‘Subclause (VII)’’ and replacing it with ‘‘Sub-
clause (IX)’’. 
REPORT ON ANTI-CORRUPTION ACTIVITIES 
SEC. 699B. (a) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than 
May 1, 2008, the Secretary of State, in consultation with 
the Administrator of the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development and the Chief Executive Officer of 
the Millennium Challenge Corporation, shall submit to 
Committees on Appropriations a report on the level of cor-
ruption in each country that receives assistance in this Act 
under the heading ‘‘Development Assistance’’, ‘‘Assistance 
for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States’’, or ‘‘Assistance 
for the States of the Former Soviet Union’’. 
(b) MATTERS TO BE INCLUDED.—The report re-
quired by subsection (a) shall—
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(1) assess the level of corruption in each coun-
try’s political, economic, and judicial sectors, includ-
ing detailed information regarding specific acts of 
corruption; 
(2) assess the extent to which recent elections 
in each country have been free and fair; 
(3) include information regarding steps each 
country has taken to combat corruption; 
(4) describe at the program, project, and activ-
ity level how the United States assistance is de-
signed to strengthen anti-corruption activities in 
each country, including specific outcome goals and 
objectives; and 
(5) include an identification of countries that 
the Secretary of State determines require special 
scrutiny for fiscal year 2009, including an identifica-
tion of countries that the Secretary determines are 
not making significant efforts to comply with min-
imum standards for anti-corruption activities. 
(c) METHODOLOGY.—Not later than September 30, 
2007, the Secretary of State shall provide to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations a detailed description of— 
(1) the methodology for assessing the level of 
corruption in each country for purposes of preparing 
the report required by subsection (a) and for evalu-
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ating each country’s annual progress in fighting cor-
ruption; and 
(2) the indicators upon which the Secretary will 
make such assessments. 
PROGRAMS TO IMPROVE DEMOCRACY, THE RULE OF LAW, 
AND GOVERNANCE IN IRAN 
SEC. 699C. Of the funds appropriated in this Act, 
$50,000,000 should be made available for programs to im-
prove democracy, the rule of law, and governance in Iran. 
SEC. 699D. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used for negotiating the participation of addi-
tional countries under the visa waiver program described 
in section 217 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1187). 
LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS RELATING TO 
RESTRICTIONS ON RELATIONS WITH TAIWAN 
SEC. 699E. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to enforce any of the provisions in the 
Memorandum to all Department and Agency Executive 
Secretaries dated, February 2, 2001, and entitled ‘‘Guide-
lines on Relations With Taiwan’’. 
SEC. 699F. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to carry out the diversity visa program 
under sections 201(e), 203(c), or 204(a)(1)(I) of the Im-
migration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1151(e), 1153(c), 
and 1154(a)(1)(I)).
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SEC. 699G. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be expended in violation of section 243(d) of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1253(d)) (re-
lating to discontinuing granting visas to nationals of coun-
tries denying or delaying accepting aliens removed from 
the United States). 
SEC. 699H. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to purchase light bulbs for operations 
in the United States unless the light bulbs have the ‘‘EN-
ERGY STAR’’ or ‘‘Federal Energy Management Pro-
gram’’ designation. 
SEC. 699I. None of the funds made available in this 
Act under the heading ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’ may be 
made available for Ethiopia. 
SEC. 699J. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used by the Department of State as a con-
tribution for the United Nations Human Rights Council. 
SEC. 699K. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to provide an immigrant or non-
immigrant visa to a national or citizen of a country with 
which the United States maintains diplomatic relations 
and the central government of which has notified the Sec-
retary of State of its refusal to extradite to the United 
States any individual indicted in the United States for kill-
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ing a law enforcement officer, as specified in a United 
States extradition request. 
SEC. 699L. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used for the International Seabed Authority 
or the Enterprise of the International Seabed Authority. 
SEC. 699M. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to send or otherwise pay for the attend-
ance of more than 50 employees from a Federal depart-
ment or agency at any single conference occurring outside 
the United States. 
PROHIBITION AGAINST ASSISTANCE TO SAUDI ARABIA 
SEC. 699N. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available pursuant to this Act— 
(1) shall be obligated or expended to finance 
any assistance to Saudi Arabia; or 
(2) shall be used to execute a waiver of section 
571 or 614 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
(22 U.S.C. 2349aa or 2364) with regard to assist-
ance to Saudi Arabia. 
SEC. 699O. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to provide direct aid to the Palestinian 
Authority, except as otherwise provided by existing law. 
This Act may be cited as ‘‘The Department of State, 
Foreign Operations and Related Programs Appropriations 
Act, 2008’’.
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That the following sums are appropriated, out of any 
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, and for other pur-
poses, namely: 
TITLE I 
DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND RELATED AGENCY 
DEPARTMENT OF STATE 
ADMINISTRATION OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS 
DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR PROGRAMS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Department of State and 
the Foreign Service not otherwise provided for, including 
employment, without regard to civil service and classifica-
tion laws, of persons on a temporary basis (not to exceed 
$700,000 of this appropriation), as authorized by section 
801 of the United States Information and Educational Ex-
change Act of 1948; representation to certain international 
organizations in which the United States participates pur-
suant to treaties ratified pursuant to the advice and consent 
of the Senate or specific Acts of Congress; arms control, non-
proliferation and disarmament activities as authorized; ac-
quisition by exchange or purchase of passenger motor vehi-
cles as authorized by law; and for expenses of general ad-
ministration, $3,885,375,000: Provided, That of the amount 
made available under this heading, not to exceed 
$10,000,000 may be transferred to and merged with ‘‘Emer-
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gencies in the Diplomatic and Consular Service’’, to be 
available only for emergency evacuations and terrorism re-
wards: Provided further, That of the funds appropriated 
under this heading, $8,131,000 shall be available for the Of-
fice of the Director of United States Foreign Assistance and 
$1,000,000 shall not be obligated until consultations with 
the Congress, arising from the report submitted pursuant 
to section 653(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, have 
been completed: Provided further, That of the amount made 
available under this heading, not less than $364,905,000 
shall be available only for public diplomacy international 
information programs: Provided further, That of the funds 
made available under this heading, $5,000,000 shall be 
made available for a demonstration program to expand ac-
cess to consular services: Provided further, That of the funds 
made available under this heading, $40,000,000 shall be 
made available for passport operations, facilities, and sys-
tems: Provided further, That the funds appropriated by the 
previous proviso shall be in addition to amounts otherwise 
made available for such purposes: Provided further, That 
of the funds made available under this heading in this Act 
and in prior Acts making appropriations for the Depart-
ment of State, foreign operations, export financing and re-
lated programs, up to $200,000,000 may be transferred to, 
and merged with, funds appropriated under the heading