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117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3389 
To amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to prohibit certain 
individuals from service as an agent of a foreign principal, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 20, 2021 
Mr. GALLAGHER (for himself and Mr. GOLDEN) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 
to prohibit certain individuals from service as an agent 
of a foreign principal, 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 ‘‘Congressional and Ex-
ecutive Foreign Lobbying Ban Act’’. 
SEC. 2. PROHIBITING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS FROM ACTING 
AS AGENTS OF FOREIGN PRINCIPALS. 
(a) FORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS; GENERAL OR 
FLAG OFFICERS OF ARMED FORCES.— 
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(1) PROHIBITING REGISTRATION AS AGENT.— 
The Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as 
amended (22 U.S.C. 611 et seq.) is amended— 
(A) by redesignating sections 12 through 
14 as sections 13 through 15; and 
(B) by inserting after section 11 the fol-
lowing new section: 
‘‘SEC. 12. PROHIBITING REGISTRATION OF CERTAIN INDI-
VIDUALS. 
‘‘(a) PROHIBITION.—No individual may register 
under this Act or otherwise serve as the agent of a foreign 
principal if the individual at any time served as a Member 
of Congress, as a senior political appointee, or as a general 
or flag officer of the armed forces. 
‘‘(b) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 
‘‘(1) the term ‘Member of Congress’ means a 
Senator or Representative in, or Delegate or Resi-
dent Commissioner to, the Congress; and 
‘‘(2) the term ‘senior political appointee’— 
‘‘(A) means— 
‘‘(i) any individual occupying a full- 
time senior position and who is appointed 
by the President or the Vice President; 
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‘‘(ii) any noncareer appointee in the 
Senior Executive Service (or other SES- 
type system); and 
‘‘(iii) any appointee to a position, at 
or above the level of a noncareer member 
of the Senior Executive Service, that has 
been excepted from the competitive service 
by reason of being of a confidential or pol-
icymaking character (schedule C and other 
positions excepted under comparable cri-
teria) in an executive agency; and 
‘‘(B) does not include any individual ap-
pointed as a member of the Senior Foreign 
Service or, except for a general or flag officer 
of the armed forces, solely as a uniformed serv-
ice commissioned officer.’’. 
(2) OTHER REPRESENTATION OF FOREIGN EN-
TITIES.—Section 207(f)(1) of title 18, United States 
Code, is amended by inserting after ‘‘within 1 year’’ 
the following: ‘‘(or, in the case of a person who is 
subject to any of such restrictions and who is a 
Member of Congress, a senior political appointee (as 
that term is defined in section 12 of the Foreign 
Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended (22 
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U.S.C. 611 et seq.)), or a general or flag officer of 
the armed forces, at any time)’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
subsection (a) shall apply with respect to any individual 
whose service as a Member of Congress or as a general 
or flag officer of the armed forces terminates on or after 
the date of the enactment of this Act. 
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