---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 U.S.C. § 2357a"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
number: "2357a"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/2357a"
units:
  - "Chapter 40 — Defense Against Weapons of Mass Destruction"
  - "Subchapter IV–A — Nonproliferation Assistance Coordination"
---

# §2357a. Definitions

- (a) **Independent states of the former Soviet Union—** In this subchapter, the term “[independent states of the former Soviet Union](/usc/50/2302.md?p=2)” has the meaning given the term in [section 5801 of title 22](/usc/22/5801.md).
- (b) **Appropriate committees of Congress—** In this subchapter, the term “the appropriate committees of Congress” means the Committees on Foreign Relations, Armed Services, and Appropriations of the Senate and the Committees on International Relations, Armed Services, and Appropriations of the House of Representatives.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–228, div. B, title XIII, § 1333, Sept. 30, 2002, 116 Stat. 1449.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

Committee on International Relations of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Foreign Affairs of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 6, One Hundred Tenth Congress, Jan. 5, 2007.