S. 3437: Restoring America's Integrity Act

110th Congress · introduced 2008-08-01 · Armed Forces and National Security · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence. (text of measure as introduce: CR S8045)

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Where it came from: introduced 2008-08-01 · official record
Who proposed it: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA] · what a sponsor is
What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence. (text of measure as introduce: CR S8045) Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

Restoring America's Integrity Act

Plain summary

Restoring America's Integrity Act - Prohibits any individual in the custody or control of personnel of the intelligence community (IC) or element or instrumentality thereof, regardless of nationality or physical location, from being subject to any treatment or technique of interrogation not authorized by the U.S. Army Field Manual on Human Intelligence Collector Operations. Requires the head of an IC element or instrumentality who detains or has control of such an individual to notify the International Committee of the Red Cross and provide access to such individual in a manner consistent with practices of the Armed Forces. Prohibits the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from permitting a CIA contractor or subcontractor to carry out an interrogation (instead requiring a CIA employee to do so).

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Official text

Restoring America's Integrity Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)

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Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA] · 6 cosponsors

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Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Ron Wyden (D-OR)

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Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
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Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-110s3437.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/110/s>

Record fed-us-cong110-s3437 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong110 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong110