I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4551 
To amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to prohibit any 
individual who served as the head of any element of the intelligence 
community from acting as the agent of a foreign principal, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 5, 2017 
Mr. CASTRO of Texas (for himself and Mr. CARSON of Indiana) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 
and in addition to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (Per-
manent Select), for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speak-
er, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the ju-
risdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 
to prohibit any individual who served as the head of 
any element of the intelligence community from acting 
as the agent of a foreign principal, and for other pur-
poses. 
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 Directors 
Lobbying Prevention Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. FINDINGS; SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) President Donald J. Trump issued an Exec-
utive order on January 28, 2017, entitled ‘‘Ethics 
Commitments by Executive Branch Appointees’’, 
paragraph (4) of which requires executive branch 
appointees to contractually commit to the following: 
‘‘I will not, at any time after the termination of my 
employment in the United States Government, en-
gage in any activity on behalf of any foreign govern-
ment or foreign political party which, were it under-
taken on January 20, 2017, would require me to 
register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act 
of 1938, as amended.’’. 
(2) To the extent that paragraph (4) of this 
Executive order has no time restriction, the Execu-
tive order amounts to a lifetime ban on lobbying on 
behalf of a foreign principal by employees of the ex-
ecutive branch. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that— 
(1) The United States intelligence community 
provides the backbone of security for the United 
States, and its members contribute daily to the safe-
ty, security, and well-being of Americans worldwide. 
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(2) Leaders of the intelligence community, 
whether political or civilian appointees, should be 
held to the highest of ethical standards. 
(3) Given recent revelations regarding previous 
heads of elements of the intelligence community lob-
bying on behalf of foreign principals, Congress 
should codify and expand the Executive order signed 
by President Trump on January 28, 2017, so that 
it applies to the heads of elements of the intelligence 
community. 
SEC. 3. PROHIBITING HEADS OF ELEMENTS OF INTEL-
LIGENCE 
COMMUNITY 
FROM 
ACTING 
AS 
AGENTS OF FOREIGN PRINCIPALS. 
(a) PROHIBITION.—The Foreign Agents Registration 
Act of 1938 (22 U.S.C. 611 et seq.), as amended is 
amended by adding at the end the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 12. PROHIBITING REGISTRATION BY FORMER HEADS 
OF ELEMENTS OF INTELLIGENCE COMMU-
NITY. 
‘‘(a) PROHIBITION.—No individual may register 
under this Act or otherwise serve as the agent of a foreign 
principal, including by engaging in lobbying activity on be-
half of a foreign entity under the Lobbying Disclosure Act 
of 1995 (2 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), if the individual at any 
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time served as the head of an element of the intelligence 
community. 
‘‘(b) ANNUAL REPORT.—On an annual basis, the Di-
rector of National Intelligence, in coordination with the 
head of each element of the intelligence community, shall 
submit to Congress a report on the compliance of former 
heads of such elements with respect to the prohibition 
under subsection (a). 
‘‘(c) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘element 
of the intelligence community’ means each agency included 
in paragraph (4) of section 3 of the National Security Act 
of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003(4)), and includes the National 
Counterterrorism Center and the National Counterpro-
liferation Center.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
subsection (a) shall apply with respect to any individual 
who, on or after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
serves as the head of an element of the intelligence com-
munity as described in section 12 of the Foreign Agents 
Registration Act of 1938, as amended, as added by sub-
section (a). 
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