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115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3564 
To amend the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 
to authorize the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to 
revoke the security clearance of political appointees in the Executive 
Office of the President for national security purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 28, 2017 
Mr. BEYER (for himself, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. COHEN, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. JOHN-
SON of Georgia, Mrs. TORRES, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. TED LIEU of Cali-
fornia, Mr. RASKIN, Mr. WELCH, Ms. LOFGREN, Mr. CICILLINE, Ms. 
SHEA-PORTER, Miss RICE of New York, Mr. EVANS, Mr. BLUMENAUER, 
Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Mr. BRENDAN F. BOYLE of Pennsylvania, Ms. 
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Ms. JAYAPAL, and Mr. MCGOVERN) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and 
Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 
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 amend the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention 
Act of 2004 to authorize the Director of the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation to revoke the security clearance 
of political appointees in the Executive Office of the 
President for national security 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 ‘‘Security Clearance Re-
view Act’’. 
SEC. 2. AUTHORITY OF DIRECTOR OF THE FEDERAL BU-
REAU OF INVESTIGATION TO REVOKE CER-
TAIN SECURITY CLEARANCES. 
Section 3002 of the Intelligence Reform and Ter-
rorism Prevention Act of 2004 (50 U.S.C. 3343) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(e) POLITICAL APPOINTEES IN EXECUTIVE OFFICE 
OF THE PRESIDENT.— 
‘‘(1) AUTHORITY OF DIRECTOR OF THE FED-
ERAL
BUREAU
OF
INVESTIGATION.—Notwith-
standing the procedures established under section 
801(a) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 
U.S.C. 3161(a)), the Director of the Federal Bureau 
of Investigation may revoke, or prohibit the renewal 
of, a security clearance of an individual described in 
paragraph (2) if the Director determines that such 
revocation, or prohibition of renewal, is necessary for 
national security purposes. 
‘‘(2) INDIVIDUAL
DESCRIBED.—An individual 
described in this paragraph is an individual who— 
‘‘(A) is a political appointee (as defined in 
the Edward ‘Ted’ Kaufman and Michael 
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Leavitt Presidential Transitions Improvements 
Act of 2015 (Public Law 114–136; 5 U.S.C. 
3101 note)) in the Executive Office of the 
President; and 
‘‘(B) holds a security clearance that pro-
vides for access to— 
‘‘(i) special access programs; 
‘‘(ii) Restricted Data; or 
‘‘(iii) any other information commonly 
referred to as ‘sensitive compartmented in-
formation’.’’. 
Æ 
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