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[Laws in effect as of January 2, 2001]
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[CITE: 22USC2680-1]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
                     CHAPTER 38--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
 
Sec. 2680-1. Deadline for responses to questions from 
        Congressional committees
        

(a) In general

    An officer or employee of the Department of State to whom a written 
or oral question is addressed by any member of a committee specified in 
subsection (b) of this section, acting within his official capacity, 
shall respond to such question within 21 days unless the Secretary of 
State submits a letter to such member explaining why a timely response 
cannot be made.

(b) Specified committees

    The committees referred to in subsection (a) of this section are the 
Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on 
Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.

(Pub. L. 102-138, title I, Sec. 196, Oct. 28, 1991, 105 Stat. 684.)

                         Change of Name

    Committee on Foreign Affairs of House of Representatives treated as 
referring to Committee on International Relations of House of 
Representatives by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note 
preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress.
