To promote a thorough investigation of the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program.

SA 3440. Mr. ENSIGN (for himself, Mr. Graham of South Carolina, and Mr. Chambliss) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2400, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2005 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Services, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 272, after the matter following line 18, insert the following:

SEC. 1055. UNITED NATIONS OIL-FOR-FOOD PROGRAM

(a) Responsibility of Inspector General of the Department of Defense for Security of Documents.--(1) The Inspector General of the Department of Defense, in cooperation with the Director of the Defense Contract Audit Agency and the Director of the Defense Contract Management Agency, shall ensure, not later than June 30, 2004, the security of all documents relevant to the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program that are in the possession or control of the Coalition Provisional Authority.

(2) The Inspector General shall maintain copies of all such documents in the United States at the Department of Defense.

(b) Cooperation in Investigations.--Each head of an Executive agency, including the Department of State, the Department of Defense, the Department of the Treasury, and the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority shall, upon a request in connection with an investigation of the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program made by the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee on Governmental Affairs, the Select Committee on Intelligence, or other committee of the Senate with relevant jurisdiction, promptly provide to such chairman access to such information and documents under the control of such agency as are responsive to the request, and assistance relating to access to and utilization of such information and documents.

(c) Information from the United Nations.--(1) The President shall instruct the Secretary of State and the United States Representative to the United Nations to request from the United Nations copies of all audits and core documents related to the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program.

(2) It is the sense of Congress that, pursuant to section 941(b)(6) of the United Nations Reform Act of 1999 (title IX of division A of H.R. 3427 of the 106th Congress, as enacted into law by section 1000(a)(7) of Public Law 106-113; 113 Stat. 1501A-480), the Comptroller General of the United States should have full and complete access to financial data relating to the United Nations, including information related to the financial transactions, organization, and activities of the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program.

(3) The Secretary of State shall facilitate the providing of access to the Comptroller General to the financial data described in paragraph (2).

(d) Review of Oil-for-Food Program by Comptroller General.--(1) The Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct a review of United States oversight of the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program. In accordance with Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards, the review should not interfere with any ongoing investigations or inquiries related to the Oil-for-Food program.

(2) The head of each Executive agency shall fully cooperate with the review under this subsection.

(e) Executive Agency Defined.--In this section, the term “Executive agency” has the meaning given that term in section 105 of title 5, United States Code.