Collapse to view only § 2656. Management of foreign affairs
- § 2651. Establishment of Department
- § 2651a. Organization of Department of State
- §§ 2652, 2652a. Repealed.
- § 2652b. Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs
- § 2652c. Assistant Secretary of State for Verification and Compliance
- §§ 2653 to 2655. Repealed.
- § 2655a. Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs within Department of State; Assistant Secretary of State as head of Bureau
- § 2655b. Diplomatic presence overseas
- § 2656. Management of foreign affairs
- § 2656a. Congressional declaration of findings of major significance of modern scientific and technological advances in foreign policy
- § 2656b. Congressional declaration of policy regarding consequences of science and technology on conduct of foreign policy
- § 2656c. Responsibilities of President
- § 2656d. Responsibilities of Secretary of State
- § 2656e. Terrorism-related travel advisories
- § 2656f. Annual country reports on terrorism
- § 2656g. Report on terrorist assets in United States
- § 2656h. International credit reports
- § 2656i. Counterdrug and anticrime activities of Department of State
- § 2656j. Countering white identity terrorism globally
- § 2656k. Human rights awareness for American athletic delegations
- § 2657. Custody of seals and property
- § 2658. Repealed.
- § 2658a. Foreign Affairs Manual and Foreign Affairs Handbook changes
- § 2659. State statutes to be procured
- § 2660. Copies of treaties furnished to Director of the Government Publishing Office
- § 2661. Procurement of information for corporations, firms and individuals; expense of cablegrams and telephone service involved; appropriation
- § 2661a. Foreign contracts or arrangements; discrimination
- § 2661b. Services provided to the press
- § 2662. Transferred
- § 2663. Omitted
- § 2664. Distribution of duties of officers, clerks, and employees
- § 2664a. Protection of Civil Service employees
- § 2665. Personal services other than those provided for
- § 2665a. Foreign Service fellowships
- §§ 2666, 2667. Repealed.
- § 2668. Requisitions for advances to pay lawful obligations
- § 2668a. Disposition of trust funds received from foreign governments for citizens of United States
- § 2669. Printing and binding outside continental United States; settlement and payment of claims by foreign governments; employment of aliens; official functions and courtesies; purchase of uniforms; payment of tort claims; payment of assumed obligations in Germany; telecommunications services; security; special purpose passenger motor vehicles; pay obligations arising under international conventions or contracts; personal service contracts
- § 2669-1. Payment of tort claims arising in connection with overseas operations
- § 2669a. Diplomatic Telecommunications Service
- § 2669b. Reaffirming United States international telecommunications policy
- § 2670. Insurance on motor vehicles in foreign countries; tie lines and teletype equipment; ice and drinking water; excise taxes on negotiable instruments; remains of deceased persons; relief, protection, and burial of seamen; acknowledgement of services of foreign vessels and aircraft; rentals and leases
- § 2671. Emergency expenditures
- § 2672. Participation in international activities; restriction; expenses
- § 2672a. Alternate United States Commissioners for international fisheries commissions
- § 2672b. Compensation of Alternate United States Commissioners; travel expenses and other allowances
- § 2673. International Civil Aviation Organization; availability of funds for participation
- § 2674. Availability of exchange allowances or proceeds derived from exchange or sale of motor vehicles
- § 2675. Allocation or transfer to other agencies of funds appropriated to Department of State; authority for expenditure of funds
- § 2676. Contracts in foreign countries
- § 2677. Availability of funds for travel expenses and transportation of personal effects, household goods, or automobiles
- § 2678. Reduction in earmarks if appropriations are less than authorizations
- § 2679. Maximum rates of per diem in lieu of subsistence payable to foreign participants in exchange of persons program or in program of furnishing technical information and assistance
- § 2679a. Procurement contracts
- § 2679b. Prohibition against fraudulent use of “Made in America” labels
- § 2679c. Prohibition on discriminatory contracts
- § 2679d. Exemption from certain procurement protest procedures for noncompetitive contracting in emergency circumstances
- § 2679e. List of certain telecommunications providers
- § 2680. Appropriations for State Department; information to congressional committees
- § 2680-1. Deadline for responses to questions from congressional committees
- § 2680-2. Facilitating access to Department of State
- § 2680a. Compensation for disability or death
- § 2680b. Special rules for certain monthly workers’ compensation payments and other payments for Department of State personnel under chief of mission authority
- § 2681. International broadcasting facilities; transfer to Department of State; acquisition of property
- § 2682. Liquidation and disposal of broadcasting facilities
- § 2683. Assumption of obligations of operation of broadcasting facilities
- § 2684. Capital fund for Department of State to centralize reproduction, editorial, data processing, audiovisual and other services; maximum amount; operation of fund
- § 2684a. Capital Investment Fund
- § 2684b. Strengthening the Chief Information Officer of the Department of State
- § 2685. Reimbursement for detailed State Department personnel
- § 2686. Review of world-wide supply, demand, and price of basic raw and processed materials
- § 2686a. Appointment of Special Coordinator for water policy negotiations and water resources policy
- § 2687. Use of appropriated funds for unusual expenses of United States Representative to Organization of American States
- § 2688. Ambassadors; criteria regarding selection and confirmation
- § 2689. American Sections, International Joint Commission, United States and Canada; funds for representation expenses and official entertainment within the United States
- § 2690. Foreign gifts; audit; reports to Congress
- § 2691. Repealed.
- § 2692. Compensation for persons participating in State Department proceedings; availability of funds
- § 2693. Repealed.
- § 2694. Limitation on purchase of gifts for foreign individuals; report to Speaker of the House and chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate
- § 2695. Administrative services
- § 2695a. Foreign language services
- § 2695b. Omitted
- § 2696. Nondiscretionary personnel costs, currency fluctuations, and other contingencies
- § 2697. Acceptance of gifts on behalf of United States
- § 2698. Procurement of legal services
- § 2699. Employment opportunities for family members
- § 2700. Use of vehicles
- § 2701. Educational facilities
- § 2701a. Education allowance for dependents of Department of State employees located in United States territories
- § 2702. Malpractice protection
- § 2703. Services and facilities for employees at posts abroad
- § 2703a. Emergency back-up care
- § 2704. Subsistence expenses
- § 2705. Documentation of citizenship
- § 2706. Reprograming of funds; notice requirements
- § 2706a. Rewards payments
- § 2707. International communications and information policy; duties of Secretary of State
- § 2708. Department of State rewards program
- § 2708a. Award of Thomas Jefferson Star for Foreign Service
- § 2709. Special agents
- § 2710. Expenses relating to participation in arbitrations of certain disputes
- § 2711. Counterterrorism Protection Fund
- § 2712. Authority to control certain terrorism-related services
- § 2713. Protection of historic and artistic furnishings of reception areas of the Harry S Truman Federal Building
- § 2714. Denial of passports to certain convicted drug traffickers
- § 2714a. Revocation or denial of passport in case of certain unpaid taxes
- § 2715. Procedures regarding major disasters and incidents abroad affecting United States citizens
- § 2715a. Provision of information on certain violent crimes abroad to victims and victims’ families
- § 2715b. Notification of next of kin; reports of death
- § 2715c. Conservation and disposition of estates
- § 2716. Debt collection
- § 2717. Defense trade controls registration fees
- § 2718. Fees received for use of Blair House
- § 2719. Grants for training and education in international affairs
- § 2719a. Foreign affairs training
- § 2719b. Training and professional development prioritization
- § 2719c. Facilitation and encouragement of training and professional development for Foreign Service and Civil Service personnel
- § 2720. Closing of consular and diplomatic posts abroad
- § 2721. Impermissible basis for denial of passports
- § 2722. International meetings
- § 2723. Denial of visas
- § 2724. Fees for commercial services
- § 2725. Fees for use of the George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center
- § 2726. Fee for use of diplomatic reception rooms
- § 2727. Accounting of collections in budget presentation documents
- § 2728. Crimes committed by diplomats
- § 2729. State Department records of overseas deaths of United States citizens from nonnatural causes
- § 2730. Prohibition on funding the involuntary return of refugees
- § 2731. Monitoring and combating anti-Semitism
- § 2732. Public diplomacy responsibilities of the Department of State
- § 2732a. Avoiding duplication of programs and efforts
- § 2732b. Improving research and evaluation of public diplomacy
- § 2733. Reemployment of annuitants under the Civil Service Retirement System and Federal Employees’ Retirement System
- § 2734. Reconstruction and stabilization
- § 2734a. Authorities related to personnel
- § 2734b. Report on diversity recruitment, employment, retention, and promotion
- § 2734c. Employee assignment restrictions
- § 2734d. Recruitment and retention of individuals who have lived, worked, or studied in predominantly Muslim countries or communities
- § 2734e. Annual Report
- § 2734f. Strategic staffing plan for the Department of State
- § 2734g. Promoting transparency and accountability in the Department of State workforce
- § 2734h. Increased accountability in assignment restrictions and reviews
- § 2735. Foreign relations exchange programs
- § 2735a. Presidential Envoy for the Abraham Accords, Negev Forum, and Related Integration and Normalization Fora and Agreements
- § 2736. Exit interviews for workforce
- § 2736a. Recruitment and retention
- § 2736b. Leadership engagement and accountability
- § 2736c. Professional development opportunities and tools
- § 2736d. Payne fellowship authorization
- § 2736e. Voluntary participation
- § 2736f. Efforts to improve retention and prevent retaliation
- § 2737. Department of State paid Student Internship Program
- § 2738. Mid-Career Mentoring Program
- § 2739. Civil service rotational program
There shall be at the seat of government an executive department to be known as the “Department of State”, and a Secretary of State, who shall be the head thereof.
There is established within the Department of State a Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. There shall be an Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, who shall be the head of the Bureau and who shall have responsibility for matters relating to oceans, environmental, scientific, fisheries, wildlife, and conservation affairs and for such other related duties as the Secretary may from time to time designate.
The Secretary of State shall perform such duties as shall from time to time be enjoined on or intrusted to him by the President relative to correspondences, commissions, or instructions to or with public ministers or consuls from the United States, or to negotiations with public ministers from foreign states or princes, or to memorials or other applications from foreign public ministers or other foreigners, or to such other matters respecting foreign affairs as the President of the United States shall assign to the Department, and he shall conduct the business of the Department in such manner as the President shall direct.
The Secretary of State shall promptly advise the Congress whenever the Department of State issues a travel advisory, or other public warning notice for United States citizens traveling abroad, because of a terrorist threat or other security concern.
The Secretary of State shall have the custody and charge of the seal of the Department of State, and of all the books, records, papers, furniture, fixtures, and other property which on June 22, 1874, remained in and appertained to the Department, or were thereafter acquired for it.
The Secretary of State shall procure from time to time such of the statutes of the several States as may not be in his office.
The Secretary of State shall furnish to the Director of the Government Publishing Office a correct copy of every treaty between the United States and any foreign government as soon as possible after it has been duly ratified and has been proclaimed by the President; and also of every postal convention made between the United States Postal Service, by and with the advice and consent of the President, on the part of the United States and foreign countries, as soon as possible after copies of such conventions have been transmitted to him by the United States Postal Service.
On and after May 15, 1936, whenever the Secretary of State, in his discretion, procures information on behalf of corporations, firms, and individuals, the expense of cablegrams and telephone service involved may be charged against the respective appropriations for the service utilized; and reimbursement therefor shall be required from those for whom the information was procured and, when made, be credited to the appropriation under which the expenditure was charged.
The Secretary of State is authorized to accept reimbursement from corporations, firms, and individuals for the expenses of travel, translation, printing, special experts, and other extraordinary expenses (including such expenses as salaries and other personnel expenses) incurred in pursuing a claim on their behalf against a foreign government or other foreign entity. Such reimbursements shall be credited to the appropriation account against which the expense was initially charged.
In fiscal year 2001 and thereafter reimbursements for services provided to the press in connection with the travel of senior-level officials may be collected and credited to this appropriation and shall remain available until expended.
The Secretary of State may prescribe duties for the Assistant Secretaries and the clerks of bureaus, as well as for all the other employees in the department, and may make changes and transfers therein when, in his judgment, it becomes necessary.
There shall not be employed in the Department of State or in connection with said Department in the District of Columbia any personal services other than those which shall be specifically authorized or appropriated for.
The Secretary of State is authorized to establish a Foreign Service fellowship program at the Department of State. The Foreign Service fellowship program shall provide a fellowship, for not less than 4 months, for academics in the area of international affairs who are members of the faculty of institutions of higher education. Such program shall give priority consideration in the award of fellowships to individuals teaching in programs in international affairs which serve significant numbers of students who are from cultural and ethnic groups which are underrepresented in the Foreign Service.
All moneys received by the Secretary of State from foreign governments and other sources, in trust for citizens of the United States or others, shall be deposited and covered into the Treasury.
The Secretary of State shall determine the amounts due claimants, respectively, from each of such trust funds, and certify the same to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall, upon the presentation of the certificates of the Secretary of State, pay the amounts so found to be due.
Each of the trust funds covered into the Treasury as aforesaid is appropriated for the payment to the ascertained beneficiaries thereof of the certificates provided for in this section.
During the current fiscal year and hereafter, the Secretary of State shall have discretionary authority to pay tort claims in the manner authorized by section 2672 of title 28 when such claims arise in foreign countries in connection with the overseas operations of the Department of State.
In order to insure appropriate representation at meetings of international fisheries commissions, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce or of the Interior as appropriate may designate from time to time Alternate United States Commissioners to the North Pacific Fur Seal Commission, the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, the International Pacific Halibut Commission, the International Whaling Commission, the Commission for the Conservation of Shrimp in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, and any similar commission (other than the International Commission for the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries and the International North Pacific Fisheries Commission) established pursuant to a convention between the United States and other governments. Alternate United States Commissioners may exercise, at any meeting of the respective Commission or of the United States Section thereof, all powers and duties of a United States Commissioner in the absence of a duly designated Commissioner for whatever reason. The number of such Alternate United States Commissioners that may be designated for any such meeting shall be limited to the number of authorized United States Commissioners that will not be present. In the event that there are Deputy United States Commissioners pursuant to the convention or statute, such Deputy United States Commissioners shall have precedence over any Alternate Commissioners so designated pursuant to this section.
Alternate United States Commissioners shall receive no compensation for their services. They may be paid travel expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence at the rates authorized by section 5703 of title 5 when engaged in the performance of their duties.
The provisions of section 287e of this title, and regulations thereunder, applicable to expenses incurred pursuant to sections 287 to 287e of this title, may be applicable to the obligation and expenditure of funds in connection with United States participation in the International Civil Aviation Organization.
The exchange allowances or proceeds derived from the exchange or sale of passenger motor vehicles in possession of the Foreign Service abroad, in accordance with section 503 of title 40, shall be available without fiscal year limitation for replacement of an equal number of such vehicles.
The Secretary of State may allocate or transfer to any department, agency, or independent establishment of the United States Government (with the consent of the head of such department, agency, or establishment) any funds appropriated to the Department of State, for direct expenditure by such department, agency, or independent establishment for the purposes for which the funds were appropriated in accordance with authority granted in this Act or under authority governing the activities of such department, agency, or independent establishment.
The Secretary of State is authorized to enter into contracts in foreign countries involving expenditures from funds appropriated or otherwise made available to the Department of State, without regard to the provisions of section 6306 of title 41: Provided, That nothing in this section shall be construed to waive the provisions of section 431 of title 18.
Appropriated funds made available to the Department of State for expenses in connection with travel of personnel outside the continental United States, including travel of dependents and transportation of personal effects, household goods, or automobiles of such personnel shall be available for such expenses when any part of such travel or transportation begins in one fiscal year pursuant to travel orders issued in that year, notwithstanding the fact that such travel or transportation may not be completed during that same fiscal year.
If the amount appropriated (or made available in the event of a sequestration order issued pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Public Law 99–177; [2 U.S.C. 900 et seq.])) for a fiscal year pursuant to any authorization of appropriations provided by an Act other than an appropriation Act is less than the authorization amount and a provision of that Act provides that a specified amount of the authorization amount shall be available only for a certain purpose, then the amount so specified shall be deemed to be reduced for that fiscal year to the amount which bears the same ratio to the specified amount as the amount appropriated (or made available in the event of sequestration) bears to the authorization amount.
The Secretary of State, with the approval of the Office of Management and Budget, shall prescribe the maximum rates of per diem in lieu of subsistence (or of similar allowances therefor) payable while away from their own countries to foreign participants in any exchange of persons program, or in any program of furnishing technical information and assistance, under the jurisdiction of any Government agency, and said rates may be fixed without regard to any provision of law in limitation thereof.
If it has been finally determined by a court or Federal agency that a person intentionally affixed a label bearing a “Made in America” inscription, or any inscription with the same meaning, to any product sold in or shipped to the United States that is not made in the United States, that person shall be ineligible to receive any contract or subcontract from the Department of State, pursuant to the debarment, suspension, and ineligibility procedures in subpart 9.4 of chapter 1 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations.
A determination by the Department to use procedures other than competitive procedures under section 3304 of title 41 in order to meet emergency security requirements, as determined by the Secretary or the Secretary’s designee, including physical security upgrades, protective equipment, and other immediate threat mitigation projects, shall not be subject to challenge by protest under either subchapter V of chapter 35 of title 31 or section 1491 of title 28.
Section 1651 of title 42 shall not apply with respect to such contracts as the Secretary of State may determine which are contracts with persons employed to perform work for the Department of State or the Foreign Service on an intermittent basis for not more than 90 days in a calendar year.
For the purpose of assuring continued operation of the facilities hereinafter described for international broadcasting as a means of achieving the objectives of the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 [22 U.S.C. 1431 et seq.] under authority of that Act, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, as successor to Defense Plant Corporation, shall transfer, without regard to the provisions of the Surplus Property Act of 1944, as amended, and without reimbursement or transfer of funds, to the Secretary of State (hereinafter referred to as the “Secretary”) all of its right, title, and interest in and to the facilities known as Plancors 1805, 1985, and 1986 located in Butler County, Ohio, in the vicinity of Delano, California, and Dixon, California, respectively, together with the equipment and other property appurtenant thereto. For the purposes of sections 2681 to 2683 of this title, the Secretary is authorized to acquire property or rights or interests therein necessary or desirable for the operation of such facilities by purchase, lease, gift, transfer, condemnation, or otherwise.
Whenever the Secretary finds that the operation of the facilities authorized by sections 2681 to 2683 of this title to be transferred is no longer necessary or desirable, he shall report such fact to Congress with his recommendations for the disposition of such facilities.
The Department of State shall assume all obligations of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation covering operations of said facilities, equipment, and appurtenant property outstanding at the date of transfer.
The Secretary of State is authorized to use appropriated funds for unusual expenses similar to those authorized by section 5913 of title 5 incident to the operation and maintenance of the living quarters of the United States Representative to the Organization of American States.
It is the sense of the Congress that the position of United States ambassador to a foreign country should be accorded to men and women possessing clearly demonstrated competence to perform ambassadorial duties. No individual should be accorded the position of United States ambassador to a foreign country primarily because of financial contributions to political campaigns.
Each fiscal year (beginning with fiscal year 1977), the Secretary of State may use funds appropriated for the American Sections, International Joint Commission, United States and Canada, for representation expenses and official entertainment within the United States for such American Sections.
Any expenditure for any gift for any person of any foreign country which involves any funds made available to meet unforeseen emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service shall be audited by the Comptroller General and reports thereon made to the Congress to such extent and at such times as he may determine necessary. The representatives of the Government Accountability Office shall have access to all books, accounts, records, reports, files, and all other papers, things, or property pertaining to such expenditure and necessary to facilitate the audit.
The Secretary of State may authorize the principal officer of a Foreign Service post to provide for the use of Government owned or leased vehicles located at that post for transportation of United States Government employees and their families when public transportation is unsafe or not available or when such use is advantageous to the Government.
Whenever the Secretary of State determines that educational facilities are not available, or that existing educational facilities are inadequate, to meet the needs of children of United States citizens stationed outside the United States who are engaged in carrying out Government activities, the Secretary may, in such manner as he deems appropriate and under such regulations as he may prescribe, establish, operate, and maintain primary schools, and school dormitories and related educational facilities for primary and secondary schools, outside the United States, make grants of funds for such purposes, or otherwise provide for such educational facilities. The authorities of the Foreign Service Buildings Act, 1926 [22 U.S.C. 292 et seq.], and of paragraphs (h) and (i) of section 2670 of this title, may be utilized by the Secretary in providing assistance for educational facilities. Such assistance may include physical security enhancements and hiring, transporting, and payment of teachers and other necessary personnel. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, where the child of a United States citizen employee of an agency of the United States Government who is stationed outside the United States attends an educational facility assisted by the Secretary of State under this section, the head of that agency is authorized to reimburse, or credit with advance payment, the Department of State for funds used in providing assistance to such educational facilities, by grant or otherwise, under this section.
The Secretary of State may pay, without regard to section 5702 of title 5, subsistence expenses of (1) special agents of the Department of State who are on authorized protective missions, whether at or away from their duty stations, and (2) members of the Foreign Service and employees of the Department who are required to spend extraordinary amounts of time in travel status. The authorities available to the Secretary of State under this section with respect to the Department of State shall be available to the Broadcasting Board of Governors and the Administrator of the Agency for International Development with respect to their respective agencies, except that the authority of clause (2) shall be available with respect to those agencies only in the case of members of the Foreign Service and employees of the agency who are performing security-related functions abroad.
The Secretary may transfer to and merge with “Emergencies in the Diplomatic and Consular Service” for rewards payments and for expenses of rewards programs unobligated balances of funds appropriated under “Diplomatic and Consular Programs” for this fiscal year and for each fiscal year on and after December 26, 2007, at no later than the end of the fifth fiscal year after the fiscal year for which any such funds were appropriated or otherwise made available.
A passport may not be denied issuance, revoked, restricted, or otherwise limited because of any speech, activity, belief, affiliation, or membership, within or outside the United States, which, if held or conducted within the United States, would be protected by the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
The Secretary is authorized to charge a fee for use of the George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center of the Department of State. Amounts collected under this section (including reimbursements and surcharges) shall be deposited as an offsetting collection to any Department of State appropriation to recover the costs of such use and shall remain available for obligation until expended.
The Secretary is authorized to charge a fee for use of the diplomatic reception rooms of the Department of State. Amounts collected under this section (including reimbursements and surcharges) shall be deposited as an offsetting collection to any Department of State appropriation to recover the costs of such use and shall remain available for obligation until expended.
The Secretary shall include in the annual Congressional Presentation Document and the Budget in Brief a detailed accounting of the total collections received by the Department of State from all sources, including fee collections. Reporting on total collections shall also cover collections from the preceding fiscal year and the projected expenditures from all collections accounts.