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116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 8907 
To direct the Secretary of State to establish a unit within the Office of 
the Inspector General to audit United States contributions to multilateral 
and international organizations, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 9, 2020 
Mr. BERGMAN (for himself, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Mr. CRENSHAW, 
and Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana) introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To direct the Secretary of State to establish a unit within 
the Office of the Inspector General to audit United 
States contributions to multilateral and international or-
ganizations, 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 ‘‘International Spending 
Transparency Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. AUDIT OF UNITED STATES CONTRIBUTIONS TO 
MULTILATERAL AND INTERNATIONAL ORGA-
NIZATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after the 
date of the enactment of this section, the Secretary shall 
establish within the Office of Audits of the Office of the 
Inspector General of the Department of State a unit to 
be known as the ‘‘Unit to Audit US Contributions to Mul-
tilateral and International Organizations’’. 
(b) ANNUAL AUDIT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than December 31 
of each year, the unit established pursuant to sub-
section (a) shall submit to the Secretary an audit of 
United States contributions to multilateral and 
international organizations during the immediately 
preceding fiscal year. 
(2) ELEMENTS.—Each audit under paragraph 
(1) shall include the following: 
(A) Information relating to— 
(i) the aggregate amount of United 
States contributions to recipient multilat-
eral and international organizations; 
(ii) the amount of contributions spent 
on administrative costs in comparison to 
projects; and 
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(iii) the purposes for each such con-
tribution. 
(B) An analysis relating to— 
(i) whether each such organization 
achieved the purpose for the contributions; 
(ii) fraud, waste, or abuse of such 
contributions by each such organization; 
and 
(iii) whether the contributions re-
ceived by each such organization were in 
turn provided directly or indirectly to— 
(I) the People’s Republic of 
China; 
(II) the Russian Federation; 
(III) the Islamic Republic of 
Iran; 
(IV) the Democratic People’s Re-
public of Korea; 
(V) the Bolivarian Republic of 
Venezuela; 
(VI) the Syrian Arab Republic; 
or 
(VII) an organization designated 
as a foreign terrorist organization 
pursuant to section 219 of the Immi-
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gration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1189). 
(C) Information relating to the challenges 
of citizens of the United States seeking employ-
ment in the United Nations. 
(D) Information relating to the whistle-
blower protection standards of multilateral and 
international organizations receiving contribu-
tions. 
(c) REPORT.—Not later than 30 days after the re-
ceipt of each audit under subsection (a), the Secretary 
shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees 
a report based on the information and analysis in each 
such audit. 
(d) LIMITATION.—No additional appropriations are 
authorized to carry out this section, which shall be carried 
out using amounts otherwise authorized to be appro-
priated to the Department of State. 
(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—the term ‘‘appropriate congressional commit-
tees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs in 
the House of Representatives; and 
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(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations in 
the Senate. 
(2) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of State. 
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