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LIMITATION ON DIPLOMATIC OR CONSULAR POST IN 
THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM 
SEC. 110. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-
erwise made available under title I of this Act shall be 
expended for any purpose for which appropriations are 
prohibited by section 609 of the Departments of Com-
merce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999. 
(b) The requirements in subparagraphs (A) and (B) 
of section 609 of that Act shall continue to apply during 
fiscal year 2008. 
STATE DEPARTMENT AUTHORITIES 
SEC. 111. Funds appropriated under title I of this 
Act for the Broadcasting Board of Governors and the De-
partment of State may be obligated and expended notwith-
standing section 15 of the State Department Basic Au-
thorities Act of 1956, section 313 of the Foreign Relations 
Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (Public 
Law 103–236), and section 504(a)(1) of the National Se-
curity Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 414(a)(1)). 
RESTRICTION ON CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE UNITED 
NATIONS 
SEC. 112. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available under title I of this Act may be made 
available to pay any contribution of the United States to 
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the United Nations if the United Nations implements or 
imposes any taxation on any United States persons. 
PERSONNEL ACTIONS 
SEC. 113. Any costs incurred by a department or 
agency funded under this Act resulting from personnel ac-
tions taken in response to funding reductions included in 
this Act shall be absorbed within the total budgetary re-
sources available to such department or agency: Provided, 
That the authority to transfer funds between appropria-
tions accounts as may be necessary to carry out this sec-
tion is provided in addition to authorities included else-
where in this Act: Provided further, That use of funds to 
carry out this section shall be treated as a reprogramming 
of funds under section 615(a) and (b) of this Act and shall 
not be available for obligation or expenditure except in 
compliance with the procedures set forth in that section. 
RESTRICTIONS ON UNITED NATIONS DELEGATIONS 
SEC. 114. None of the funds made available under 
title I of this Act may be used to pay expenses for any 
United States delegation to any specialized agency, body, 
or commission of the United Nations if such commission 
is chaired or presided over by a country, the government 
of which the Secretary of State has determined, for pur-
poses of section 6(j)(1) of the Export Administration Act 
of 1979 (50 U.S.C. App. 2405(j)(1)), has provided sup-
port for acts of international terrorism. 
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TITLE II—EXPORT AND INVESTMENT 
ASSISTANCE 
EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF THE UNITED STATES 
INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector 
General Act of 1978, as amended, $1,000,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2009. 
PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
The Export-Import Bank of the United States is au-
thorized to make such expenditures within the limits of 
funds and borrowing authority available to such corpora-
tion, and in accordance with law, and to make such con-
tracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year limi-
tations, as provided by section 104 of the Government 
Corporation Control Act, as may be necessary in carrying 
out the program for the current fiscal year for such cor-
poration: Provided, That none of the funds available dur-
ing the current fiscal year may be used to make expendi-
tures, contracts, or commitments for the export of nuclear 
equipment, fuel, or technology to any country, other than 
a nuclear-weapon state as defined in Article IX of the 
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons eligi-
ble to receive economic or military assistance under this 
Act, that has detonated a nuclear explosive after the date 
of the enactment of this Act: Provided further, That not-
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withstanding section 1(c) of Public Law 103–428, as 
amended, sections 1(a) and (b) of Public Law 103–428 
shall remain in effect through October 1, 2008: Provided 
further, That not less than 10 percent of the aggregate 
loan, guarantee, and insurance authority available to the 
Export-Import Bank under this or any prior Act should 
be used for renewable energy and environmentally bene-
ficial products and services. 
SUBSIDY APPROPRIATION 
For the cost of direct loans, loan guarantees, insur-
ance, and tied-aid grants as authorized by section 10 of 
the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945, as amended, 
$68,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2011: Provided, That such costs, including the cost of 
modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided fur-
ther, That such sums shall remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2026, for the disbursement of direct loans, 
loan guarantees, insurance and tied-aid grants obligated 
in fiscal years 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011: Provided fur-
ther, That none of the funds appropriated by this Act or 
any prior Act appropriating funds for foreign operations, 
export financing, and related programs for tied-aid credits 
or grants may be used for any other purpose except 
through the regular notification procedures of the Com-
mittees on Appropriations: Provided further, That funds 
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appropriated by this paragraph are made available not-
withstanding section 2(b)(2) of the Export-Import Bank 
Act of 1945, in connection with the purchase or lease of 
any product by any Eastern European country, any Baltic 
State or any agency or national thereof. 
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
For administrative expenses to carry out the direct 
and guaranteed loan and insurance programs, including 
hire of passenger motor vehicles and services as authorized 
by 5 U.S.C. 3109, and not to exceed $30,000 for official 
reception and representation expenses for members of the 
Board of Directors, $78,000,000: Provided, That the Ex-
port-Import Bank may accept, and use, payment or serv-
ices provided by transaction participants for legal, finan-
cial, or technical services in connection with any trans-
action for which an application for a loan, guarantee or 
insurance commitment has been made: Provided further, 
That, notwithstanding subsection (b) of section 117 of the 
Export Enhancement Act of 1992, subsection (a) thereof 
shall remain in effect until October 1, 2008. 
OVERSEAS PRIVATE INVESTMENT CORPORATION 
NON-CREDIT ACCOUNT 
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation is au-
thorized to make, without regard to fiscal year limitations, 
as provided by 31 U.S.C. 9104, such expenditures and 
commitments within the limits of funds available to it and 
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in accordance with law as may be necessary: Provided, 
That the amount available for administrative expenses to 
carry out the credit and insurance programs (including an 
amount for official reception and representation expenses 
which
shall
not
exceed
$35,000)
shall
not
exceed 
$47,500,000: Provided further, That project-specific trans-
action costs, including direct and indirect costs incurred 
in claims settlements, and other direct costs associated 
with services provided to specific investors or potential in-
vestors pursuant to section 234 of the Foreign Assistance 
Act of 1961, shall not be considered administrative ex-
penses for the purposes of this heading. 
PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For
the
cost
of
direct
and
guaranteed
loans, 
$20,000,000, as authorized by section 234 of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961, to be derived by transfer from 
the Overseas Private Investment Corporation Non-Credit 
Account: Provided, That such costs, including the cost of 
modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided fur-
ther, That such sums shall be available for direct loan obli-
gations and loan guaranty commitments incurred or made 
during fiscal years 2008, 2009, and 2010: Provided fur-
ther, That funds so obligated in fiscal year 2008 remain 
available for disbursement through 2016; funds obligated 
in fiscal year 2009 remain available for disbursement 
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through 2017; funds obligated in fiscal year 2010 remain 
available for disbursement through 2018: Provided further, 
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Overseas Private Investment Corporation is authorized to 
undertake any program authorized by title IV of the For-
eign Assistance Act of 1961 in Iraq: Provided further, 
That funds made available pursuant to the authority of 
the previous proviso shall be subject to the regular notifi-
cation procedures of the Committees on Appropriations. 
In addition, such sums as may be necessary for ad-
ministrative expenses to carry out the credit program may 
be derived from amounts available for administrative ex-
penses to carry out the credit and insurance programs in 
the Overseas Private Investment Corporation Non-Credit 
Account and merged with said account. 
TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 
of section 661 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 
$50,400,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2009. 
TITLE III—BILATERAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE 
FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT 
For expenses necessary to enable the President to 
carry out the provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
1961, and for other purposes, to remain available until 
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September 30, 2008, unless otherwise specified herein, as 
follows: 
UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL 
DEVELOPMENT 
CHILD SURVIVAL AND HEALTH PROGRAMS FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 
of chapters 1 and 10 of part I of the Foreign Assistance 
Act of 1961, for child survival, health, and family plan-
ning/reproductive health activities, in addition to funds 
otherwise available for such purposes, $1,955,150,000 (re-
duced by $25,000,000) (increased by $50,000,000) (in-
creased by $5,000,000) (reduced by $5,000,000), to re-
main available until September 30, 2009: Provided, That 
this amount shall be made available for such activities as: 
(1) immunization programs; (2) oral rehydration pro-
grams and pneumonia prevention and treatment pro-
grams; (3) health, nutrition, water and sanitation pro-
grams which directly address the needs of mothers and 
children, and related education programs; (4) assistance 
for children displaced or orphaned by causes other than 
AIDS; (5) programs for the prevention, treatment, control 
of, and research on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, polio, ma-
laria, and other infectious diseases, and for assistance to 
communities severely affected by HIV/AIDS, including 
children infected or affected by AIDS; and (6) family plan-
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ning/reproductive health: Provided further, That none of 
the funds appropriated under this heading may be made 
available for nonproject assistance, except that funds may 
be made available for such assistance for ongoing health 
activities: Provided further, That of the funds appropriated 
under this heading, not to exceed $350,000, in addition 
to funds otherwise available for such purposes, may be 
used to monitor and provide oversight of child survival, 
maternal and family planning/reproductive health, and in-
fectious disease programs: Provided further, That the fol-
lowing
amounts
should
be
allocated
as
follows: 
$374,150,000 for child survival and maternal health; 
$15,000,000 for vulnerable children; $350,000,000 for 
HIV/AIDS; $591,000,000 for other infectious diseases; 
and $375,000,000 for family planning/reproductive health, 
including in areas where population growth threatens bio-
diversity or endangered species: Provided further, That of 
the funds appropriated under this heading, and in addition 
to funds allocated under the previous proviso, not less 
than $250,000,000 shall be made available, notwith-
standing any other provision of law, except for the United 
States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and 
Malaria Act of 2003 (Public Law 108–25), for a United 
States contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, 
Tuberculosis and Malaria (the ‘‘Global Fund’’), and shall 
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be expended at the minimum rate necessary to make time-
ly payment for projects and activities: Provided further, 
That of the funds appropriated under this heading, 
$70,000,000 should be made available for a United States 
contribution to The GAVI Fund, and up to $6,000,000 
may be transferred to and merged with funds appropriated 
by this Act under the heading ‘‘Operating Expenses of the 
United States Agency for International Development’’ for 
costs directly related to international health, but funds 
made available for such costs may not be derived from 
amounts made available for contributions under this and 
preceding provisos: Provided further, That none of the 
funds made available in this Act nor any unobligated bal-
ances from prior appropriations may be made available to 
any organization or program which, as determined by the 
President of the United States, supports or participates 
in the management of a program of coercive abortion or 
involuntary sterilization: Provided further, That any deter-
mination made under the previous proviso must be made 
no later than six months after the date of enactment of 
this Act, and must be accompanied by a comprehensive 
analysis as well as the complete evidence and criteria uti-
lized to make the determination: Provided further, That 
none of the funds made available under this Act may be 
used to pay for the performance of abortion as a method 
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of family planning or to motivate or coerce any person 
to practice abortions: Provided further, That nothing in 
this paragraph shall be construed to alter any existing 
statutory prohibitions against abortion under section 104 
of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961: Provided further, 
That none of the funds made available under this Act may 
be used to lobby for or against abortion: Provided further, 
That in order to reduce reliance on abortion in developing 
nations, funds shall be available only to voluntary family 
planning projects which offer, either directly or through 
referral to, or information about access to, a broad range 
of family planning methods and services, and that any 
such voluntary family planning project shall meet the fol-
lowing requirements: (1) service providers or referral 
agents in the project shall not implement or be subject 
to quotas, or other numerical targets, of total number of 
births, number of family planning acceptors, or acceptors 
of a particular method of family planning (this provision 
shall not be construed to include the use of quantitative 
estimates or indicators for budgeting and planning pur-
poses); (2) the project shall not include payment of incen-
tives, bribes, gratuities, or financial reward to: (A) an indi-
vidual in exchange for becoming a family planning accep-
tor; or (B) program personnel for achieving a numerical 
target or quota of total number of births, number of fam-
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ily planning acceptors, or acceptors of a particular method 
of family planning; (3) the project shall not deny any right 
or benefit, including the right of access to participate in 
any program of general welfare or the right of access to 
health care, as a consequence of any individual’s decision 
not to accept family planning services; (4) the project shall 
provide family planning acceptors comprehensible infor-
mation on the health benefits and risks of the method cho-
sen, including those conditions that might render the use 
of the method inadvisable and those adverse side effects 
known to be consequent to the use of the method; and 
(5) the project shall ensure that experimental contracep-
tive drugs and devices and medical procedures are pro-
vided only in the context of a scientific study in which 
participants are advised of potential risks and benefits; 
and, not less than 60 days after the date on which the 
Administrator of the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development determines that there has been a 
violation of the requirements contained in paragraph (1), 
(2), (3), or (5) of this proviso, or a pattern or practice 
of violations of the requirements contained in paragraph 
(4) of this proviso, the Administrator shall submit to the 
Committees on Appropriations a report containing a de-
scription of such violation and the corrective action taken 
by the Agency: Provided further, That in awarding grants 
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for natural family planning under section 104 of the For-
eign Assistance Act of 1961 no applicant shall be discrimi-
nated against because of such applicant’s religious or con-
scientious commitment to offer only natural family plan-
ning; and, additionally, all such applicants shall comply 
with the requirements of the previous proviso: Provided 
further, That for purposes of this or any other Act author-
izing or appropriating funds for foreign operations, export 
financing, and related programs, the term ‘‘motivate’’, as 
it relates to family planning assistance, shall not be con-
strued to prohibit the provision, consistent with local law, 
of information or counseling about all pregnancy options: 
Provided further, That to the maximum extent feasible, 
taking into consideration cost, timely availability, and best 
health practices, funds appropriated in this Act or prior 
appropriations Acts that are made available for condom 
procurement shall be made available only for the procure-
ment of condoms manufactured in the United States: Pro-
vided further, That information provided about the use of 
condoms as part of projects or activities that are funded 
from amounts appropriated by this Act shall be medically 
accurate and shall include the public health benefits and 
failure rates of such use. 
DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 
of sections 103, 105, 106, and sections 251 through 255, 
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and chapter 10 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act 
of 1961, $1,733,760,000 (increased by $5,000,000) (re-
duced by $5,000,000), to remain available until September 
30, 2009: Provided, That $519,000,000 shall be allocated 
for basic education: Provided further, That of the funds 
appropriated under this heading and managed by the 
United States Agency for International Development Bu-
reau of Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assist-
ance, not less than $35,000,000 shall be made available 
only for programs to improve women’s leadership capacity 
in recipient countries: Provided further, That such funds 
may not be made available for construction: Provided fur-
ther,
That
of
the
funds
appropriated
in
this
Act, 
$300,000,000 shall be made available for access to safe 
water and water management programs: Provided further, 
That of the funds appropriated under this heading, 
$175,000,000 shall be made available for biodiversity and 
environmental programs: Provided further, That of the 
funds appropriated under this heading that are made 
available for assistance programs for displaced and or-
phaned children and victims of war, not to exceed 
$42,500, in addition to funds otherwise available for such 
purposes, may be used to monitor and provide oversight 
of such programs: Provided further, That funds appro-
priated under this heading should be made available for 
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programs in sub-Saharan Africa to address sexual and 
gender-based violence. 
INTERNATIONAL DISASTER AND FAMINE ASSISTANCE 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 
of section 491 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for 
international disaster relief, rehabilitation, and recon-
struction assistance, $322,350,000, to remain available 
until expended, of which $20,000,000 should be for famine 
prevention and relief. 
TRANSITION INITIATIVES 
For necessary expenses for international disaster re-
habilitation and reconstruction assistance pursuant to sec-
tion
491
of
the
Foreign
Assistance
Act
of
1961, 
$40,000,000, to remain available until expended, to sup-
port transition to democracy and to long-term develop-
ment of countries in crisis: Provided, That such support 
may include assistance to develop, strengthen, or preserve 
democratic institutions and processes, revitalize basic in-
frastructure, and foster the peaceful resolution of conflict: 
Provided further, That the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development shall submit a report to the Com-
mittees on Appropriations at least 5 days prior to begin-
ning a new program of assistance. 
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DEVELOPMENT CREDIT AUTHORITY 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the cost of direct loans and loan guarantees pro-
vided by the United States Agency for International De-
velopment, as authorized by sections 256 and 635 of the 
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, up to $21,000,000 may 
be derived by transfer from funds appropriated by this Act 
to carry out part I of such Act and under the heading 
‘‘Assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States’’: 
Provided, That such funds shall be made available only 
for micro and small enterprise programs, urban programs, 
and other programs which further the purposes of part 
I of the Act: Provided further, That such costs, including 
the cost of modifying such direct and guaranteed loans, 
shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974, as amended: Provided further, That 
funds made available by this paragraph may be used for 
the cost of modifying any such guaranteed loans under 
this Act or prior Acts, and funds used for such costs shall 
be subject to the regular notification procedures of the 
Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That the 
provisions of section 107A(d) (relating to general provi-
sions applicable to the Development Credit Authority) of 
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as contained in sec-
tion 306 of H.R. 1486 as reported by the House Com-
mittee on International Relations on May 9, 1997, shall 
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