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cans who could not obtain legal counsel during the 
1960s; 
(11) the Lawyers’ Committee transformed Afri-
can-American voting strength by litigating critical 
cases throughout the South to oppose archaic voter 
discrimination laws, poll taxes, and literacy tests 
that prevented African-Americans from registering 
and voting; 
(12) the Lawyers’ Committee launched the 
Urban Areas Project in 1968, which resulted in local 
independent Lawyers’ Committee offices in Philadel-
phia, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, 
Denver, San Antonio, and Washington, D.C.; 
(13) the Lawyers’ Committee developed the 
Southern African Project, which provided legal as-
sistance to thousands of political detainees and tech-
nical assistance in resisting pro-apartheid legislation 
for more than 20 years and which monitored elec-
tions in Namibia in 1989 and elections in South Af-
rica in 1994; 
(14) the Lawyers’ Committee led the defense of 
Executive Order 11246 when it was attacked during 
the Reagan Administration in the 1980s; 
(15) the Lawyers’ Committee litigated a series 
of cases from the 1970s to the present that deseg-
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regated police and fire departments throughout the 
Nation, notably in the State of Mississippi and in 
Miami, Birmingham, Cleveland, Nassau County, 
Buffalo, and Houston; 
(16) in Givens v. Hamlet Estates, the Lawyers’ 
Committee acquired the first seizure order in a fair 
housing case that led to the exposure of a decade old 
racial coding system that denied apartments to 
6,000 African-Americans and Hispanics in Miami, 
Florida; 
(17) the Lawyers’ Committee obtained victories 
in 3 cases before the United States Supreme Court 
in 1996–1997 involving the Voting Rights Act, in-
cluding Young v. Fordice, Lawyer v. United States, 
and King v. State Board of Elections; 
(18) the Lawyers’ Committee persuaded the 
Environmental Protection Agency to relocate 358 
African-American 
families 
living 
around 
the 
Escambia toxic Superfund site in Pensacola, Flor-
ida; 
(19) the Lawyers’ Committee coordinated a 
Church Burning Project in the 1990s to provide free 
legal assistance to churches that were destroyed dur-
ing a bitter rampage of racially motivated church 
burnings;
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(20) in Washington Park Land Committee v. 
Portsmouth, the Lawyers’ Committee secured a case 
settlement that led to the relocation of 185 families 
from toxic lead poisoned segregated public housing 
in Portsmouth, Virginia, to new integrated housing 
opportunities; and 
(21) June 21, 2003 is the 40th anniversary of 
the founding of the Lawyers’ Committee. 
(b) RECOGNITION.—Pursuant to the findings in sub-
section (a), Congress— 
(1) recognizes that these accomplishments of 
the Lawyers’ Committee reflect the tremendous com-
mitment to implementing justice that President 
Kennedy embarked on 40 years ago; 
(2) recognizes the achievements of the Lawyers’ 
Committee, as its staff and pro bono attorneys, cli-
ents, and friends commemorate and celebrate its 
40th anniversary; and 
(3) supports the designation of an appropriate 
day as ‘‘Equal Justice Day’’ in honor of the dedi-
cated work of the Lawyers’ Committee and the 
many hours of pro bono service offered by lawyers 
and law firms throughout this country to secure jus-
tice and equal opportunity for all.
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TITLE IV—KOBY MANDELL ACT 
SEC. 401. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Koby Mandell Act of 
2003’’. 
SEC. 402. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
(1) Numerous American citizens have been 
murdered or maimed by terrorists around the world. 
(2) Some American citizens who have been vic-
tims of terrorism overseas have not received from 
the United States Government services equal to 
those received by other such victims of overseas ter-
rorism. 
(3) The United States Government has not de-
voted adequate efforts or resources to the apprehen-
sion of terrorists who have harmed American citi-
zens overseas. Monetary rewards for information 
leading to the capture of terrorists overseas, which 
the government advertises in regions where the ter-
rorists are believed to be hiding, have not been ad-
vertised adequately. 
(4) To remedy these and related problems, an 
office should be established within the Department 
of Justice for the purpose of ensuring equally vig-
orous efforts to capture all terrorists who have
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harmed American citizens overseas and equal treat-
ment for all American victims of overseas terrorism. 
SEC. 403. ESTABLISHMENT OF AN OFFICE IN THE DEPART-
MENT OF JUSTICE TO UNDERTAKE SPECIFIC 
STEPS TO FACILITATE THE CAPTURE OF TER-
RORISTS WHO HAVE HARMED AMERICAN 
CITIZENS OVERSEAS AND TO ENSURE THAT 
ALL AMERICAN VICTIMS OF OVERSEAS TER-
RORISM ARE TREATED EQUALLY. 
The President shall establish within the Department 
of Justice an office (hereinafter in this title the ‘‘Office’’) 
to carry out the following activities: 
(1) The Office shall create the Bringing Terror-
ists to Justice program, and in so doing will ensure 
that— 
(A) rewards are offered to capture all ter-
rorists involved in harming American citizens 
overseas, regardless of the terrorists’ country of 
origin or residence; 
(B) such rewards are prominently adver-
tised in the mass media and public sites in all 
countries or regions where such terrorists re-
side;
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(C) the names and photographs and sus-
pects in all such cases are included on a web 
site; and 
(D) the names of the specific organizations 
claiming responsibility for terrorist attacks 
mentioned on the site are included in the de-
scriptions of those attacks. 
(2) The Office shall establish and administer a 
program which will provide notification for American 
victims of overseas terrorism or their immediate 
family to update them on the status of efforts to 
capture the terrorists who harmed them. 
(3) The Office shall work with the other United 
States government agencies to expand legal restric-
tions on the ability of murderers to reap profits from 
books or movies concerning their crimes—the ‘‘Son 
of Sam’’ laws that currently exist in many States, so 
as to ensure that terrorists who harm American citi-
zens overseas are unable to profit from book or 
movie sales in the United States. 
(4) The Office shall endeavor to determine if 
terrorists who have harmed American citizens over-
seas are serving in their local police or security 
forces. Whenever it is found that terrorists who have 
harmed American citizens overseas are serving in
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from incarceration abroad, are eligible for further 
prosecution in the United States, the Office shall co-
ordinate with other government agencies to seek the 
transfer of those terrorists to the United States for 
further prosecution. 
SEC. 404. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to be appro-
priated for fiscal year 2004 and subsequent fiscal years 
such sums as may be necessary to carry out this title. 
(b) AVAILABILITY.—Amounts appropriated under 
subsection (a) are authorized to remain available until ex-
pended. 
TITLE 
V—MATTERS 
RELATING 
TO 
INTELLIGENCE 
AND 
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE 
SEC. 501. FBI OFFICE OF COUNTERINTELLIGENCE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 33 of title 28, United 
States Code, is amended by inserting after section 535 the 
following new section: 
‘‘§ 535A. Office of Counterintelligence 
‘‘Subject to the supervision of the Attorney General, 
the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation may 
establish an Office of Counterintelligence within the Bu-
reau to investigate potential espionage activities within the 
Bureau.’’.
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(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
at the beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting 
after the item relating to section 535 the following new 
item: 
‘‘535A. Office of Counterintelligence.’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives March 30, 
2004. 
Attest: 
JEFF TRANDAHL, 
Clerk.