---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 10433"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "10433"
heading: "Appropriate congressional committees and leadership defined"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/10433"
units:
  - "Chapter 111 — Australia, United Kingdom, and United States (aukus) Security Partnership"
  - "Subchapter III — Aukus Submarine Transfer Authorization Act"
---

# §10433. Appropriate congressional committees and leadership defined


In this chapter, the term “[appropriate congressional committees](/usc/22/10401.md?p=1) and leadership” means—

- (1) the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives; and
- (2) the majority leader of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 118–31, div. A, title XIII, § 1354, Dec. 22, 2023, 137 Stat. 522.)