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Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-102

§2393a Requests by Government Accountability Office and Congressional Committees for Documents and Materials

Title 22 › CHAPTER 32 — FOREIGN ASSISTANCE › SUBCHAPTER III — GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS › Part II — Administrative Provisions › § 2393a

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Money provided under this chapter cannot be spent on carrying out any part of it in a country or on a project after 35 days from the day the Government Accountability Office (GAO) or a congressional committee that handles laws or funding under this chapter gives a written request to the head of the agency for documents, reports, audits, or other materials about that work. Money can be used again only if the requested materials are given to the GAO or committee, or if the President sends a written certification saying he has forbidden giving them and explains why.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §2393a

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None of the funds made available pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be used to carry out any provision of this chapter in any country or with respect to any project or activity, after the expiration of the thirty-five-day period which begins on the date the Government Accountability Office or any committee of the Congress charged with considering legislation, appropriations or expenditures under this chapter, has delivered to the office of the head of any agency carrying out such provision, a written request that it be furnished any document, paper, communication, audit, review, finding, recommendation, report, or other material in its custody or control relating to the administration of such provision in such country or with respect to such project or activity, unless and until there has been furnished to the Government Accountability Office, or to such committee, as the case may be, (1) the document, paper, communication, audit, review, finding, recommendation, report, or other material so requested, or (2) a certification by the President that he has forbidden the furnishing thereof pursuant to request and his reason for so doing.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 87–195, Sept. 4, 1961, 75 Stat. 424, known as the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 2151 of this title and Tables. Codification This section was formerly classified to subsec. (c) of section 2394 of this title prior to the complete revision of section 2394 of this title by Pub. L. 95–424, title V, § 502(a)(2), Oct. 6, 1978, 92 Stat. 957.

Amendments

2004—Pub. L. 108–271 substituted “Government Accountability Office” for “General Accounting Office” in two places.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1978, see section 605 of Pub. L. 95–424, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1978 Amendment note under section 2151 of this title.

Executive Documents

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.

Reference

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Citation

22 U.S.C. § 2393a

Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102