I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3587 
To provide for the collection and assessment of intelligence regarding the 
efforts of foreign powers to gain influence through the financial interests 
of the President and close family members and associates of the Presi-
dent. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 28, 2017 
Mr. GOMEZ introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Permanent 
Select Committee on Intelligence 
A BILL 
To provide for the collection and assessment of intelligence 
regarding the efforts of foreign powers to gain influence 
through the financial interests of the President and close 
family members and associates of the President. 
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 ‘‘Battling Russian Intel-
ligence Baiting Efforts Act of 2017’’ or the ‘‘BRIBE Act 
of 2017’’. 
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SEC. 2. COLLECTION AND ASSESSMENT OF INTELLIGENCE 
REGARDING THE EFFORTS OF FOREIGN POW-
ERS TO GAIN INFLUENCE THROUGH THE FI-
NANCIAL INTERESTS OF THE PRESIDENT 
AND CLOSE FAMILY MEMBERS AND ASSOCI-
ATES OF THE PRESIDENT. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following find-
ings: 
(1) Article I, section 9, clause 8 of the United 
States Constitution (commonly known as the 
‘‘Emoluments Clause’’) prohibits acceptance of gifts 
by the President from a foreign state. 
(2) The purpose of the emoluments clause is to 
prevent foreign corruption of the workings of the 
United States Government. 
(3) Pursuant to a 2009 opinion by the Office 
of Legal Counsel, corporations owned or controlled 
by a foreign government are presumptively foreign 
states under the Emoluments Clause. 
(4) President Donald J. Trump maintains a 
business network, the Trump Organization, that has 
financial interests around the world and negotiates 
and concludes transactions with foreign states and 
entities that are extensions of foreign states. 
(5) The Office of Government Ethics has ex-
pressed concerns regarding ongoing conflicts of in-
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terest between President Trump and his business 
concerns and intermingling of the Trump Organiza-
tion and the work of Government. Examples of po-
tential Trump conflicts include the following: 
(A) President Trump received long sought 
trademarks for the Trump Organization by the 
Chinese government the day after reversing his 
position on the ‘‘one-China’’ policy. 
(B) Saudi Arabia, as the Wall Street Jour-
nal recently reported, spent $270,000 at the 
Trump Hotel in Washington, DC, as part of a 
lobbying effort to roll back legislation that al-
lows family members of 9/11 attack victims to 
sue the Saudi government. 
(C) During the transition, Jared Kushner, 
the President’s son-in-law and White House 
senior adviser, met with Sergey N. Gorkov, 
chief of Vnesheconombank (VEB), in what the 
White House described as part of routine diplo-
matic encounters. Gorkov’s bank has been used 
as a frequent cover for Russian intelligence 
service operatives, and Gorkov indicated that he 
met with Kushner in Kushner’s capacity as the 
chief executive of Kushner Companies. 
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(D) In February, in its first major real es-
tate transaction after Trump’s inauguration, 
the Trump Organization sold a $15,800,000 
penthouse apartment in Trump Tower to Chi-
nese-American business executive Xiao Yan 
Chen, who has been directly linked to a front 
group for Chinese military intelligence through 
the misleadingly innocuous-sounding China Arts 
Foundation. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that— 
(1) President Trump’s foreign interests and his 
unwillingness to divest his holdings creates a possi-
bility of foreign corruption, exactly the purpose of 
the emoluments clause; 
(2) foreign governments appear to be calcu-
lating that directing money and favorable treatment 
toward projects, properties, and interests affiliated 
with President Trump and Jared Kushner is an easy 
way to secure foreign policy gains; and 
(3) President Trump’s foreign entanglements, 
to the extent they enhance possibility of foreign cor-
ruption, constitute a national security challenge to 
the United States. 
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(c) COLLECTION
AND
ASSESSMENT
OF
INTEL-
LIGENCE REGARDING FOREIGN POWERS INFLUENCE RE-
LATING TO FINANCIAL INTERESTS OF COVERED PER-
SONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Pursuant to title V of the 
National Security Act of 1947, the intelligence com-
munity is authorized to collect and, as appropriate, 
disseminate intelligence regarding efforts by a for-
eign power to influence, or to take any actions as a 
result of, a financial interest of a covered person. 
Such actions include, but are not limited to, the fol-
lowing: 
(A) Granting favorable treatment to a cov-
ered business or organization as a means to 
curry favor with the administration. 
(B) Granting of trademarks or other bene-
fits to members of the President’s family. 
(C) Giving a covered business or organiza-
tion favorable regulatory or other preferential 
treatment. 
(D) Renting or buying properties owned or 
operated by a covered business or organization. 
(E) Investing in concerns operated by a 
covered business or organization. 
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(F) Lending money to or otherwise facili-
tating financial transactions on behalf of a cov-
ered business or organization. 
(2) INTELLIGENCE
ASSESSMENTS.—Not later 
than 30 days after receipt of intelligence, the Direc-
tor of National Intelligence shall assess whether a 
foreign power is attempting to influence, or to take 
any actions as a result of, a financial interest of a 
covered person. 
(3) CONGRESSIONAL
NOTIFICATION
REQUIRE-
MENTS.— 
(A) NOTIFICATION OF INTELLIGENCE AS-
SESSMENTS.—Not later than 10 days after 
making an assessment under paragraph (2), the 
Director of National Intelligence shall submit to 
the congressional intelligence committees a re-
port on the assessment made, including the spe-
cific intelligence upon which the assessment is 
based. 
(B) NOTICE OF PREVIOUSLY COLLECTED 
INTELLIGENCE.—The Director of National In-
telligence shall make available to the congres-
sional intelligence committees any intelligence 
obtained during the period beginning on Janu-
ary 19, 2017, and ending on the date of the en-
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actment of this Act, indicating that a foreign 
power or foreign interest provided to a covered 
business or organization favorable regulatory or 
other preferential treatment or provided an 
emolument as a means to curry favor. 
(4) DEADLINE
FOR
IMPLEMENTING
GUIDE-
LINES.—Not later than 30 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Director of National In-
telligence shall issue guidelines to the intelligence 
community regarding the collection of intelligence 
described in this subsection. 
(5) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 
(A) The term ‘‘covered person’’ means— 
(i) the President; 
(ii) the Vice President; 
(iii) a child of the President or Vice 
President; or 
(iv) a close relative of the President or 
Vice President, including an in-law. 
(B) The term ‘‘covered business or organi-
zation’’ means— 
(i) the Trump Organization; or 
(ii) an organization or business con-
trolled by or associated (including known 
shell companies) with a covered person, 
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any member of the President’s family, or 
any close associate of the President. 
(C) The term ‘‘financial interest’’ means a 
financial interest of the President, the Vice 
President, the spouse of the President or Vice 
President, or a minor child of the President or 
Vice President, as applicable, that— 
(i) would constitute a financial inter-
est described in subsection (a) of section 
208 of title 18, United States Code— 
(I) if— 
(aa) for purposes of such 
section 208, the terms ‘‘officer’’ 
and ‘‘employee’’ included the 
President and the Vice President; 
and 
(bb) the President or Vice 
President, as applicable, partici-
pated as described in subsection 
(a) of such section 208 in rela-
tion to such financial interest; 
and 
(II) determined without regard to 
any exception under subsection (b) of 
such section 208; or 
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(ii) may constitute a present, emolu-
ment, office, or title, of any kind whatever, 
from any king, prince, or foreign state (in-
cluding from an entity owned or controlled 
by a foreign government), within the 
meaning of article I, section 9 of the Con-
stitution of the United States. 
(D) The term ‘‘intelligence community’’ 
has the meaning given such term in section 
3(4) of the National Security Act of 1947 ( 50 
U.S.C. 3003). 
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