---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 9801"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "9801"
heading: "Appropriate congressional committees defined"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/9801"
units:
  - "Chapter 105 — Global Fragility"
---

# §9801. Appropriate congressional committees defined


In this chapter:

- (1) **Appropriate congressional committees—** The term “appropriate congressional committees” means—
  - (A) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and
  - (B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.
- (2) **Relevant Federal department or agency—** The term “relevant Federal department or agency” means the Department of State, the United States Agency for International Development, the Department of Defense, the Department of[^1] Treasury, and any other Federal department or agency the President determines is relevant to carry out the purposes of this chapter.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be followed by “the”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 116–94, div. J, title V, § 502, Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 3060.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title

Pub. L. 116–94, div. J, title V, § 501, Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 3060, provided that: “This title [enacting this chapter] may be cited as the ‘Global Fragility Act of 2019’.”