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ligence or intelligence-related information by a Member, 
Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of 
the House in violation of subdivision (C) and report to 
the House concerning any allegation that it finds to be 
substantiated. 
‘‘(E) Upon the request of a person who is subject to 
an investigation described in subdivision (D), the Com-
mittee on Standards of Official Conduct shall release to 
such person at the conclusion of its investigation a sum-
mary of its investigation, together with its findings. If, at 
the conclusion of its investigation, the Committee on 
Standards of Official Conduct determines that there has 
been a significant breach of confidentiality or unauthor-
ized disclosure by a Member, Delegate, Resident Commis-
sioner, officer, or employee of the House, it shall report 
its findings to the House and recommend appropriate ac-
tion. Recommendations may include censure, removal 
from committee membership, or expulsion from the House, 
in the case of a Member, or removal from office or employ-
ment or punishment for contempt, in the case of an officer 
or employee. 
‘‘(F) The Committee on Intelligence may permit a 
personal representative of the President, designated by the 
President to serve as a liaison to the committee, to attend 
any closed meeting of the committee.
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‘‘(G) Subject to the Rules of the House, funds may 
not be appropriated for a fiscal year, with the exception 
of a bill or joint resolution continuing appropriations, or 
an amendment thereto, or a conference report thereon, to, 
or for use of, a department or agency of the United States 
to carry out any of the following activities, unless the 
funds shall previously have been authorized by a bill or 
joint resolution passed by the House during the same or 
preceding fiscal year to carry out such activity for such 
fiscal year: 
‘‘(i) The activities of the Central Intelligence 
Agency and the Director of Central Intelligence. 
‘‘(ii) The activities of the Defense Intelligence 
Agency. 
‘‘(iii) The activities of the National Security 
Agency. 
‘‘(iv) The intelligence and intelligence-related 
activities of other agencies and subdivisions of the 
Department of Defense. 
‘‘(v) The intelligence and intelligence-related ac-
tivities of the Department of State. 
‘‘(vi) The intelligence and intelligence-related 
activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in-
cluding all activities of the Intelligence Division.
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‘‘(vii) The activities of the Director of National 
Intelligence. 
‘‘(H)(i) In this clause, the term ‘intelligence and in-
telligence-related activities’ includes—
‘‘(I) the collection, analysis, production, dis-
semination, or use of information that relates to a 
foreign country, or a government, political group, 
party, military force, movement, or other association 
in a foreign country, and that relates to the defense, 
foreign policy, national security, or related policies of 
the United States and other activity in support of 
the collection, analysis, production, dissemination, or 
use of such information; 
‘‘(II) activities taken to counter similar activi-
ties directed against the United States; 
‘‘(III) covert or clandestine activities affecting 
the relations of the United States with a foreign 
government, political group, party, military force, 
movement, or other association; 
‘‘(IV) the collection, analysis, production, dis-
semination, or use of information about activities of 
persons within the United States, its territories and 
possessions, or nationals of the United States abroad 
whose political and related activities pose, or may be 
considered by a department, agency, bureau, office,
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division, instrumentality, or employee of the United 
States to pose, a threat to the internal security of 
the United States; and 
‘‘(V) covert or clandestine activities directed 
against persons described in (IV). 
‘‘(ii) In this clause, the term ‘department or agency’ 
includes any organization, committee, council, establish-
ment, or office within the Federal Government. 
‘‘(iii) For purposes of this clause, reference to a de-
partment, agency, bureau, or subdivision shall include a 
reference to any successor department, agency, bureau, or 
subdivision to the extent that a successor engages in intel-
ligence or intelligence-related activities now conducted by 
the department, agency, bureau, or subdivision referred to 
in this clause. 
‘‘(I) Clause 12(a) of rule XXII does not apply to 
meetings of a conference committee respecting legislation 
(or any part thereof) reported by the Committee on Intel-
ligence.’’. 
(c) Clause 5(a) of rule X of the Rules of the House 
of Representatives is amended by adding at the end the 
following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(4)(A) The Committee on Intelligence shall be com-
posed of not more than 18 Members, Delegates, or the 
Resident Commissioner, of whom not more than 10 may