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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6828 
To require the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency to submit to 
Congress an intelligence assessment on the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco 
Cartel, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 17, 2025 
Mr. VINDMAN (for himself and Mr. MOYLAN) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence 
A BILL 
To require the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency 
to submit to Congress an intelligence assessment on the 
Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco Cartel, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Transnational 
Fentanyl Prevention Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY INTELLIGENCE 
ASSESSMENT 
OF 
SINALOA 
CARTEL 
AND 
JALISCO CARTEL. 
(a) ASSESSMENT.—Not later than 90 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency, in consultation with the heads of 
the other elements of the intelligence community (as such 
term is defined in section 3 of the National Security Act 
of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003)) that the Director determines 
appropriate, shall submit to the appropriate committees 
of 
Congress 
an 
intelligence 
assessment 
on 
the 
transnational criminal organizations known as the Sinaloa 
Cartel and the Jalisco Cartel. 
(b) ELEMENTS.—The intelligence assessment under 
subsection (a) shall include, with respect to each 
transnational criminal organization specified in such sub-
section, a description of the following: 
(1) The key leaders, organizational structure, 
subgroups, presence in the states within Mexico, and 
cross-border illicit drug smuggling routes of the 
transnational criminal organization. 
(2) The practices used by the transnational 
criminal organization to import the chemicals used 
to make synthetic drugs, to produce such drugs, and 
to smuggle such drugs across the border into the 
United States. 
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(3) The main suppliers and the main brokers 
that supply the transnational criminal organization 
with precursor chemicals and equipment used in the 
production of synthetic drugs. 
(4) The manner in which the transnational 
criminal organization is tailoring the fentanyl prod-
ucts of such organization to attract a wider variety 
of United States consumers, including unwitting 
users. 
(5) The degree to which the transnational 
criminal organization is using human and technical 
operations to undermine counternarcotics efforts by 
United States and Mexican security services. 
(6) An estimate of the annual revenue received 
by the transnational criminal organization from the 
sale of illicit drugs, disaggregated by drug type. 
(7) Any other information the Director of the 
Central Intelligence Agency determines relevant. 
(c) FORM.—The intelligence assessment under sub-
section (a) may be submitted in classified form. 
(d) APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CONGRESS DE-
FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate commit-
tees of Congress’’ means— 
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(1) the congressional defense committees (as 
such term is defined in section 101(a)(16) of title 
10, United States Code); 
(2) the congressional intelligence committees 
(as such term is defined in section 3 of the National 
Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003)); 
(3) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the 
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
Affairs, the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
Urban Affairs, and the Committee on Appropria-
tions of the Senate; and 
(4) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 
Committee on Homeland Security, and the Com-
mittee on Appropriations of the House of Represent-
atives. 
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