I 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 9025 
To amend the National Security Act of 1947 to expand protected disclosures 
made by intelligence community whistleblowers to include disclosures 
made to Members of Congress, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 18, 2020 
Mr. AMASH introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Permanent 
Select Committee on Intelligence 
A BILL 
To amend the National Security Act of 1947 to expand 
protected disclosures made by intelligence community 
whistleblowers to include disclosures made to Members 
of Congress, 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 ‘‘Intelligence Commu-
nity Congressional Whistleblowing Improvement Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. PROTECTED DISCLOSURES MADE TO MEMBERS OF 
CONGRESS BY INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY 
WHISTLEBLOWERS. 
(a) DISCLOSURES TO MEMBERS UNDER NATIONAL 
SECURITY ACT OF 1947.— 
(1) 
DISCLOSURES
TO
MEMBERS.—Section 
103H(k)(5) of the National Security Act of 1947 
(50 U.S.C. 3033(k)(5)) is amended— 
(A) in subparagraph (C), by inserting ‘‘or 
any Member of Congress designated by the em-
ployee who submits the complaint or informa-
tion under subparagraph (A)’’ after ‘‘commit-
tees’’; 
(B) in subparagraph (D)— 
(i) in clauses (i) and (ii), by inserting 
‘‘, or any Member of Congress,’’ after 
‘‘committees’’ each place it appears; and 
(ii) in clause (iii)— 
(I) by striking ‘‘A member or em-
ployee of one of the congressional in-
telligence committees’’ and inserting 
‘‘A Member of Congress, including 
any Member of one of the congres-
sional intelligence committees, or an 
employee of such a committee’’; and 
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(II) by striking ‘‘member’’ each 
place it appears and inserting ‘‘Mem-
ber’’; 
(C) in subparagraph (I), by striking ‘‘any 
member’’ and inserting ‘‘any Member of Con-
gress, including any Member’’; and 
(D) by adding at the end the following new 
subparagraph: 
‘‘(J) In this paragraph, the term ‘Member of Con-
gress’ means a member of the Senate or the House of Rep-
resentatives, a Delegate to the House of Representatives, 
and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico.’’. 
(2) PROHIBITED
PERSONNEL
ACTIONS.—Sec-
tion 1104 of such Act (50 U.S.C. 3234) is amend-
ed— 
(A) in subsection (a), by adding at the end 
the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(5) MEMBER OF CONGRESS.—The term ‘Mem-
ber of Congress’ has the meaning given such term 
in section 103H(k)(5)(J) of this Act.’’; and 
(B) in subsections (b) and (c), by striking 
‘‘a member’’ and inserting ‘‘a Member of Con-
gress, including any Member’’ each place it ap-
pears. 
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(ii) by striking ‘‘member’’ each place 
it appears and inserting ‘‘Member’’; 
(3) in subsection (g), by striking ‘‘any member’’ 
and inserting ‘‘any Member of Congress, including 
any Member’’; and 
(4) in subsection (h), by adding at the end the 
following new paragraph: 
‘‘(3) The term ‘Member of Congress’ means a 
member of the Senate or the House of Representa-
tives, a Delegate to the House of Representatives, 
and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico.’’. 
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