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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 Com-
mittee on Oversight and Reform, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined 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 activ-
ity that is illegal or undermines the rule of law or cor-
rupts a public officer or the office such officer represents, 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘No More Ghost Money 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) On May 4, 2013, President of Afghanistan 
Hamid Karzai revealed that the Central Intelligence 
Agency regularly made cash payments to his office. 
(2) The corrupt practice of making such pay-
ments undermines the rule of law and undercuts a 
central strategic United States goal in Afghanistan: 
Establishing a credible and transparent Afghan gov-
ernment responsive to popular concerns. 
SEC. 3. PROHIBITION OF PAYMENTS TO INDIVIDUALS AF-
FILIATED WITH FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS. 
(a) PROHIBITION.—Subject to section 5, no depart-
ment or agency of the Federal Government or contractor 
to the Federal Government may make a monetary pay-
ment to an employee, officer, elected official, or represent-
ative of the government of a foreign country for the pur-
poses 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. 
(b) PROCEDURES.—The President shall establish 
procedures to carry out and enforce the prohibition under 
subsection (a). 
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SEC. 4. REPORT ON PAYMENTS TO INDIVIDUALS AFFILI-
ATED WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF AFGHANI-
STAN. 
Subject to section 5, not later than 180 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the 
Central Intelligence Agency shall submit to Congress a re-
port on all monetary payments made by the Central Intel-
ligence Agency to employees, officers, elected officials, or 
representatives of the Government of Afghanistan on or 
after September 11, 2001. Such report shall include— 
(1) a description of all payments made to em-
ployees, officers, elected officials, or representatives 
of the Government of Afghanistan on or after Sep-
tember 11, 2001, including any receipts provided by 
such employees, officers, elected officials, or rep-
resentatives and, to the extent possible, copies of 
such receipts; 
(2) the legal basis for making such payments; 
(3) the strategic goals supported by such pay-
ments; and 
(4) the effectiveness of such payments in 
achieving such strategic goals. 
SEC. 5. NATIONAL SECURITY WAIVER. 
The President may waive a requirement of section 3 
or 4 if the President certifies to Congress that fulfilling 
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such requirement would harm the national security of the 
United States or members of the Armed Forces. 
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