IIB 
108TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4660
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JULY 22, 2004
Received 
SEPTEMBER 7, 2004
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 
AN ACT 
To amend the Millennium Challenge Act of 2003 to extend 
the authority to provide assistance to countries seeking 
to become eligible countries for purposes of that Act.
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. FINDINGS; PURPOSE. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following find-
ings: 
(1) On March 14, 2002, the President stated: 
‘‘America supports the international development 
goals in the U.N. Millennium Declaration, and be-
lieves that these goals are a shared responsibility of 
developed and developing countries.’’. 
(2) Section 201(b)(4) of H.R. 1950, as passed 
by the House of Representatives on July 16, 2003, 
states that it is the policy of the United States to 
support compacts of the Millennium Challenge Ac-
count which, among other things, aim ‘‘to reduce 
poverty by significantly increasing the economic 
growth trajectory of beneficiary countries through 
investing in the productive potential of the people of 
such countries’’. 
(3) On May 10, 2004, the President recognized 
the link between global poverty and the national se-
curity of the United States by stating: ‘‘In many na-
tions, poverty remains chronic and desperate. Half 
the world’s people still live on less than $2 a day. 
This divide between wealth and poverty, between op-
portunity and misery, is far more than a challenge 
to our compassion. Persistent poverty and oppres-
sion can spread despair across an entire nation, and
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they can turn nations of great potential into the re-
cruiting grounds of terrorists.’’. 
(4) Section 602 of the Millennium Challenge 
Act of 2003 (22 U.S.C. 7701) states that a purpose 
of that Act is ‘‘the elimination of extreme poverty’’. 
(5) The Report of the Committee on Inter-
national Relations to accompany H.R. 2441 of the 
108th Congress (H. Rept. 108–205) states that 
‘‘[f]or the Millennium Challenge Account to be suc-
cessful as an incentive for future reform as well as 
a reward for past reform, it must offer opportunities 
for those low-income countries whose institutions do 
not yet meet all the eligibility criteria but who are 
demonstrating partial success in meeting the eligi-
bility criteria’’. 
(6) The purpose of section 616 of the Millen-
nium Challenge Act of 2003 (22 U.S.C. 7715), and 
the ‘‘threshold program’’ established pursuant to 
such section by the Millennium Challenge Corpora-
tion, in consultation with the United States Agency 
for International Development, is to provide assist-
ance to the low-income countries described in para-
graph (5) in order to assist such countries to become 
eligible countries under the Act.
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(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this Act is to amend 
the Millennium Challenge Act of 2003 to authorize fund-
ing of the ‘‘threshold program’’ under section 616 of such 
Act for the same duration as the authorization of funding 
for the overall Millennium Challenge Act of 2003. 
SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF AUTHORIZATION OF ASSISTANCE TO 
CERTAIN CANDIDATE COUNTRIES. 
Section 616(d) of the Millennium Challenge Act of 
2003 (22 U.S.C. 7715(d)) is amended by striking ‘‘for fis-
cal year 2004’’ and inserting ‘‘for a fiscal year’’.
Passed the House of Representatives July 21, 2004. 
Attest: 
JEFF TRANDAHL, 
Clerk.