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118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION H. R. 10165 
To amend the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 
to authorize the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to 
make security clearance determinations and access determinations for 
political appointees in the Executive Office of the President, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 19, 2024 
Mr. BEYER (for himself, Mr. LIEU, Mr. CARSON, Mr. CASTEN, Mr. CORREA, 
Ms. DEGETTE, Mr. GOLDMAN of New York, Mr. HUFFMAN, Mr. JACK-
SON of Illinois, Mr. MCGOVERN, Ms. NORTON, Mr. QUIGLEY, Ms. SALI-
NAS, Mr. SCHNEIDER, Ms. TITUS, Ms. TOKUDA, Mrs. TORRES of Cali-
fornia, Mr. TONKO, and Ms. LOFGREN) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, 
and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee con-
cerned 
A BILL 
To amend the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention 
Act of 2004 to authorize the Director of the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation to make security clearance deter-
minations and access determinations for political ap-
pointees in the Executive Office of the President, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Security Clearance Re-
view Act’’. 
SEC. 2. SECURITY CLEARANCE DETERMINATIONS AND AC-
CESS DETERMINATIONS BY DIRECTOR OF FBI 
FOR POLITICAL APPOINTEES IN EXECUTIVE 
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT . 
Section 3001 of the Intelligence Reform and Ter-
rorism Prevention Act of 2004 (50 U.S.C. 3341) is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(k) POLITICAL APPOINTEES IN THE EXECUTIVE 
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT.— 
‘‘(1) APPOINTMENT
AND
ACCESS
TO
CLASSI-
FIED
INFORMATION.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law— 
‘‘(A) a political appointee may not be em-
ployed in, detailed to, or assigned to, the Exec-
utive Office of the President unless such em-
ployment, detail, or assignment is clearly con-
sistent with national security; and 
‘‘(B) any political appointee employed in, 
detailed to, or assigned to, the Executive Office 
of the President may not have a security clear-
ance, or access any classified information, un-
less such security clearance is granted, or ac-
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cess determination is made, by the Director of 
the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 
‘‘(2) DETERMINATION AND NOTIFICATION.— 
‘‘(A) If the Director of the Federal Bureau 
of Investigation denies, suspends, or revokes a 
security clearance or access to classified infor-
mation under paragraph (1), the Director shall 
notify the President and the appropriate com-
mittees of Congress of such determination on 
the date such determination is made. 
‘‘(B) If the President nullifies, reverses, 
modifies, or otherwise fails to recognize any de-
nial, suspension, or revocation of a security 
clearance or access to classified information de-
termination made by the Director under para-
graph (1), not later than 30 days thereafter, 
the President shall submit an explanation (in 
writing) of the reasons for such nullification, re-
versal, modification, or failure to recognize to 
the appropriate committees of Congress. 
‘‘(3) POLITICAL APPOINTEE DEFINED.—In this 
subsection, the term ‘political appointee’ has the 
meaning given that term in section 4(a)(4) of the 
Edward ‘Ted’ Kaufman and Michael Leavitt Presi-
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dential Transitions Improvements Act of 2015 (Pub-
lic Law 114–136).’’. 
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