§ 1754. — Foreign currencies.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 22USC1754]
TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
CHAPTER 24--MUTUAL SECURITY PROGRAM
SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
Sec. 1754. Foreign currencies
(a) Availability and use
Notwithstanding section 1306 of title 31, or any other provision of
law, proceeds of sales made under section 1675p \1\ of this title, shall
remain available and shall be used for any of the purposes of this
chapter, giving particular regard to the following purposes--
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(1) for providing military assistance to nations or mutual
defense organizations eligible to receive assistance under this
chapter;
(2) for purchase of goods or services in friendly nations;
(3) for loans, under applicable provisions of this chapter, to
increase production of goods or services, including strategic
materials, needed in any nation with which an agreement was
negotiated, or in other friendly nations, with the authority to use
currencies received in repayment for the purposes stated in the
section or for deposit to the general account of the Treasury of the
United States;
(4) for developing new markets on a mutually beneficial basis;
(5) for grants-in-aid to increase production for domestic needs
in friendly countries; and
(6) for purchasing materials for United States stockpiles.
(b) Availability to Members and employees of Congress; authorization
requirements; reports
(1)(A) Notwithstanding section 1306 of title 31, or any other
provision of law--
(i) local currencies owned by the United States which are in
excess of the amounts reserved under section 2362(a) of this title
and of the requirements of the United States Government in payment
of its obligations outside of the United States, as such
requirements may be determined from time to time by the President;
and
(ii) any other local currencies owned by the United States in
amounts not to exceed the equivalent of $75 per day per person or
the maximum per diem allowance established under the authority of
subchapter I of chapter 57 of title 5 for employees of the United
States Government while traveling in a foreign country, whichever is
greater, exclusive of the actual cost of transportation;
shall be made available to Members and employees of the Congress for
their local currency expenses when authorized as provided in
subparagraph (B).
(B) The authorization required for purposes of subparagraph (A) may
be provided--
(i) by the Speaker of the House of Representatives in the case
of a Member or employee of the House;
(ii) by the chairman of a standing or select committee of the
House of Representatives in the case of a member or employee of that
committee;
(iii) by the President of the Senate, the President pro tempore
of the Senate, the Majority Leader of the Senate, or the Minority
Leader of the Senate, in the case of a Member or employee of the
Senate;
(iv) by the chairman of a standing, select, or special committee
of the Senate in the case of a member or employee of that committee
or of an employee of a member of that committee; and
(v) by the chairman of a joint committee of the Congress in the
case of a member or employee of that committee.
(C) Whenever local currencies owned by the United States are not
otherwise available for purposes of this subsection, the Secretary of
the Treasury shall purchase such local currencies as may be necessary
for such purposes, using any funds in the Treasury not otherwise
appropriated.
(2) On a quarterly basis, the chairman of each committee of the
House of Representatives or the Senate and of each joint committee of
the Congress (A) shall prepare a consolidated report (i) which itemizes
the amounts and dollar equivalent values of each foreign currency
expended and the amounts of dollar expenditures from appropriated funds
in connection with travel outside the United States, stating the
purposes of the expenditures including per diem (lodging and meals),
transportation, and other purposes, and (ii) which shows the total
itemized expenditures, by such committee and by each member or employee
of such committee (including in the case of a committee of the Senate,
each employee of a member of the committee who received an authorization
under paragraph (1) from the chairman of the committee); and (B) shall
forward such consolidated report to the Clerk of the House of
Representatives (if the committee is a committee of the House of
Representatives or a joint committee whose funds are disbursed by the
Chief Administrative Officer of the House) or to the Secretary of the
Senate (if the committee is a committee of the Senate or a joint
committee whose funds are disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate).
Each such consolidated report shall be open to public inspection and
shall be published in the Congressional Record within ten legislative
days after the report is forwarded pursuant to this paragraph. In the
case of the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate and the
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of
Representatives, such consolidated report may, in the discretion of the
chairman of the committee, omit such information as would identify the
foreign countries in which members and employees of that committee
traveled.
(3)(A) Each Member or employee who receives an authorization under
paragraph (1) from the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the
President of the Senate, the President pro tempore of the Senate, the
Majority Leader of the Senate, or the Minority Leader of the Senate,
shall within thirty days after the completion of the travel involved,
submit a report setting forth the information specified in paragraph
(2), to the extent applicable, to the Clerk of the House of
Representatives (in the case of a Member of the House or an employee
whose salary is disbursed by the Chief Administrative Officer of the
House) or the Secretary of the Senate (in the case of a Member of the
Senate or an employee whose salary is disbursed by the Secretary of the
Senate). In the case of an authorization for a group of Members or
employees, such reports shall be submitted for all Members of the group
by its chairman, or if there is no designated chairman, by the ranking
Member or if the group does not include a Member, by the senior employee
in the group. Each report submitted pursuant to this subparagraph shall
be open to public inspection.
(B) On a quarterly basis, the Clerk of the House of Representatives
and the Secretary of the Senate shall each prepare a consolidation of
the reports received by them under this paragraph with respect to
expenditures during the preceding quarter by each Member and employee or
by each group in the case of expenditures made on behalf of a group
which are not allocable to individual members of the group. Each such
consolidation shall be open to public inspection and shall be published
in the Congressional Record within ten legislative days after its
completion.
(Aug. 26, 1954, ch. 937, ch. IV, Sec. 502, 68 Stat. 849; Sept. 3, 1954,
ch. 1262, Sec. 104, 68 Stat. 1223; July 8, 1955, ch. 301, Sec. 9(a), 69
Stat. 288; July 18, 1956, ch. 627, Sec. 9(b), 70 Stat. 560; Pub. L. 85-
477, ch. IV, Sec. 401(a), June 30, 1958, 72 Stat. 268; Pub. L. 85-766,
ch. X, Sec. 1001, Aug. 27, 1958, 72 Stat. 880; Pub. L. 86-472, ch. IV,
Sec. 401(a), May 14, 1960, 74 Stat. 138; Pub. L. 86-628, title I,
Sec. 105(a), July 12, 1960, 74 Stat. 460; Pub. L. 87-195, pt. III,
Sec. 642(a)(2), Sept. 4, 1961, 75 Stat. 460; Pub. L. 88-633, pt. IV,
Sec. 402, Oct. 7, 1964, 78 Stat. 1015; Pub. L. 93-126, Sec. 5, Oct. 18,
1973, 87 Stat. 452; Pub. L. 93-371, Sec. 107, Aug. 13, 1974, 88 Stat.
444; Pub. L. 94-59, title XI, Sec. 1105, July 25, 1975, 89 Stat. 299;
Pub. L. 94-157, title I, ch. IV, Dec. 18, 1975, 89 Stat. 837; Pub. L.
94-350, title IV, Sec. 402, July 12, 1976, 90 Stat. 833; Pub. L. 94-440,
title I, Sec. 109, Oct. 1, 1976, 90 Stat. 1445; Pub. L. 95-384,
Sec. 22(a), Sept. 26, 1978, 92 Stat. 742; Pub. L. 104-186, title II,
Sec. 218(2), Aug. 20, 1996, 110 Stat. 1747.)
References in Text
Section 1675p of this title, referred to in subsec. (a), was
repealed by section 542(a)(9) of act Aug. 26, 1954, and is covered by
section 1922 of this title.
Codification
In subsecs. (a) and (b)(1)(A), ``section 1306 of title 31''
substituted for ``section 1415 of the Supplemental Appropriation Act,
1953 [31 U.S.C. 724]'' on authority of Pub. L. 97-258, Sec. 4(b), Sept.
13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1067, the first section of which enacted Title 31,
Money and Finance.
Amendments
1996--Subsec. (b)(2), (3)(A). Pub. L. 104-186 substituted ``by the
Chief Administrative Officer'' for ``by the Clerk''.
1978--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 95-384, among other changes, inserted
provisions requiring authorization by certain individuals of local
currency expenses of members of employees of Congress and requiring each
member or employee who has received an authorization for his local
currency expenses to submit a report within 30 days setting forth
certain specified information.
1976--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 94-440 inserted ``and the Select
Committee on Intelligence of the Senate'' after ``Joint Committee on
Congressional Operations'' and inserted provision authorizing chairman
of the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate to omit
information from the consolidated report that would identify the foreign
countries in which members and employees of such committee traveled.
Pub. L. 94-350 required publication of each consolidated report in
the Congressional Record within ten legislative days after being
forwarded pursuant to subsec. (b).
1975--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 94-157 made local currencies available to
Joint Committee on Congressional Operations.
Pub. L. 94-59 struck out provisions requiring each member or
employee to make, to the chairman of the committee in accordance with
regulations prescribed by the committee, an itemized report showing the
amounts and dollar equivalent values of each foreign currency expended
and the amounts of dollar expenditures made from appropriated funds in
connection with travel outside the United States, together with the
purposes of the expenditure, including lodging, meals, transportation,
and other purposes, and, in the provision requiring a consolidated
report by the chairman of each committee within the first sixty-days
that Congress is in session in each calendar year, inserted requirement
that such report itemize those items, struck out references to
subcommittees, substituted ``Committee on House Administration'' for
``Clerk'', and inserted provision for public inspection.
1974--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 93-371 inserted provisions requiring each
member or employee of any committee to make to the chairman, in
accordance with prescribed regulations, an itemized report showing the
amounts of foreign currency expended and dollar expenditure made from
appropriated funds in connection with travel outside the United States,
and substituted provisions relating to the preparation and submission of
a consolidated report by the chairman, within the first sixty days that
Congress is in session in each calendar year, showing total itemized
expenditures during the preceding calendar year of the committee, for
provisions relating to the submission by the Department of State to the
chairman of each committee, within the first ninety calendar days that
Congress is in session in each calendar year, showing amounts and
equivalent dollar values of foreign currency expended during the
preceding calendar year for travel outside the United States.
1973--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 93-126 substituted ``$75'' for ``$50''
and ``shall be made available to Members and employees of appropriate
committees'' for ``shall be made available to appropriate committees''
and substituted a reporting procedure under which the Department of
State, within the first 90 calendar days that Congress is in session in
each calendar year, submits a report covering the amounts and dollar
equivalent values of each foreign currency expended by each Member and
employee with respect to travel outside the United States, with such
report to be available for public inspection, for a reporting procedure
under which both the amounts and dollar equivalent values of each
foreign currency expended and the amount of dollar expenditures made
from appropriated funds with respect to travel outside the United States
were reported within the first 60 days that Congress was in session in
each calendar year, with each such report published in the Congressional
Record.
1964--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 88-633 inserted ``which are in excess of
the amounts reserved under section 2362(a) of this title and of the
requirements of the United States Government in payment of its
obligations outside the United States, as such requirements may be
determined from time to time by the President (and any other local
currencies owned by the United States in amounts not to exceed the
equivalent of $50 per day per person exclusive of the actual cost of
transportation)''.
1961--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 87-195 repealed subsec. (c) which related
to the preservation of cultural monuments of the Upper Nile.
1960--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 86-628 required inclusion in the reports
of expenditures of each member and employee of the committees and
subcommittees.
Pub. L. 86-472, Sec. 401(a)(1), required members and employees of
committees to report the amounts of dollar expenditures made from
appropriated funds in connection with travel outside the United States,
and provided that the consolidated report shall show the total itemized
expenditures incurred as a result of official activities of members and
employees of committees or subcommittees.
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 86-472, Sec. 401(a)(2), added subsec. (c).
1958--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 85-766 required reports to the Select
Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration of the House of
Representatives and the Special Committee on Space and Astronautics of
the Senate.
Pub. L. 85-477 required each member or employee of the committees to
make an itemized report to the chairman of his committee, provided that
the chairman shall consolidate the reports and forward the consolidated
report to the appropriate Congressional committee within the first 60
days that Congress is in session in each year, and required publication
of each report in the Congressional Record.
1956--Subsec. (b). Act July 18, 1956, substituted ``Joint Economic
Committee and the Select Committees on Small Business of the Senate and
House of Representatives'' for ``Joint Committee on the Economic
Report''.
1955--Subsec. (b). Act July 8, 1955, authorized the use of local
currencies by the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and the Joint
Committee on the Economic Report.
1954--Subsec. (b). Act Sept. 3, 1954, substituted ``Committee on
Appropriations of the Senate'' for ``Committee on Rules and
Administration of the Senate''.
Effective Date of 1978 Amendment
Section 22(b) of Pub. L. 95-384 provided that: ``Notwithstanding
section 30 of this Act [set out as a note below], the amendment made by
subsection (a) of this section [amending this section] shall take effect
on the date of enactment of this Act [Sept. 26, 1978].''
Short Title of 1960 Amendment
Pub. L. 86-735, Sept. 8, 1960, 74 Stat. 869, as amended, which
enacted sections 1942 to 1945 of this title and amended section 1753a of
this title, is known as the ``Latin American Development Act''. For
complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note
set out under section 1942 of this title and Tables.
Short Title
Section 1 of act Aug. 26, 1954, ch. 937, 68 Stat. 832, as amended by
act June 30, 1958, Pub. L. 85-477, Sec. 2, 72 Stat. 261, provided in
part: ``That this act [enacting this chapter, section 281b-2 of this
title, and section 151c of former Title 5, Executive Departments and
Government Officers and Employees, amending sections 279a, 281b, 290b,
1148, 1442, and 2658 of this title, section 1704 of Title 7,
Agriculture, section 1441 of Title 26, Internal Revenue Code, and
section 1641 of Title 50, App., War and National Defense, and enacting
provisions set out as notes under section 1751 of this title] may be
cited as the `Mutual Security Act of 1954'.''
Transfer of Functions
Certain functions of Clerk of House of Representatives transferred
to Director of Non-legislative and Financial Services by section 7 of
House Resolution No. 423, One Hundred Second Congress, Apr. 9, 1992.
Director of Non-legislative and Financial Services replaced by Chief
Administrative Officer of House of Representatives by House Resolution
No. 6, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Jan. 4, 1995.
Delegation of Functions
For delegation of functions of President under this section, see Ex.
Ord. No. 12163, Sept. 29, 1979, 44 F.R. 56673, as amended, set out as a
note under section 2381 of this title.
Functions of President under this section delegated to Secretary of
the Treasury pursuant to section 1-501(a)(3) of Ex. Ord. No. 12163,
Sept. 29, 1979, 44 F.R. 56675, eff. Oct. 1, 1979, set out as a note
under section 2381 of this title.
International Security Assistance Act of 1978 Not To Affect
Authorizations of Appropriations and Limitations of Authority Applicable
to Fiscal Year 1978
Section 30 of Pub. L. 95-384 provided that: ``Enactment of this Act
[see Short Title of 1978 Amendment note set out under section 2151 of
this title] shall not affect the authorizations of appropriations and
limitations of authority applicable to the fiscal year 1978 which are
contained in provisions of law amended by this Act (other than sections
31(a), (b), and (d) of the Arms Export Control Act [section 2771(a),
(b), and (d) of this title]).''
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 3007 of this title.
