---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 3313"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "3313"
heading: "Congressional oversight"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/3313"
units:
  - "Chapter 48 — Taiwan Relations"
---

# §3313. Congressional oversight

- (a) **Monitoring activities of Senate Foreign Relations Committee, House Foreign Affairs Committee, and other Congressional committees—** The Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, and other appropriate committees of the Congress shall monitor—
  - (1) the implementation of the provisions of this chapter;
  - (2) the operation and procedures of the Institute;
  - (3) the legal and technical aspects of the continuing relationship between the United States and [Taiwan](/usc/22/3314.md?p=2); and
  - (4) the implementation of the policies of the United States concerning security and cooperation in East Asia.
- (b) **Committee reports to their respective Houses—** Such committees shall report, as appropriate, to their respective Houses on the results of their monitoring.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–8, § 14, Apr. 10, 1979, 93 Stat. 20.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective as of January 1, 1979, see section 18 of Pub. L. 96–8, set out as a note under section 3301 of this title.