---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 8231"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "8231"
heading: "Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/8231"
units:
  - "Chapter 89 — Advancing Democratic Values"
  - "Subchapter III — Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion and the Internet Website of the Department of State"
---

# §8231. Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion


Congress commends the [Secretary](/usc/22/8203.md?p=7) for creating an [Advisory Committee](/usc/22/4502.md?p=2) on Democracy Promotion, and it is the sense of Congress that the Committee should play a significant role in the [Department](/usc/22/8203.md?p=5)’s transformational diplomacy by advising the [Secretary](/usc/22/8203.md?p=7) regarding [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) efforts to promote democracy and democratic transition in connection with the formulation and implementation of [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) [foreign](/usc/22/3146.md?p=1) policy and [foreign](/usc/22/3146.md?p=1) assistance, including reviewing and making recommendations on—

- (1) how to improve the capacity of the [Department](/usc/22/8203.md?p=5) to promote democracy and human rights; and
- (2) how to improve [foreign](/usc/22/3146.md?p=1) assistance [programs](/usc/22/3383.md?p=6) related to the promotion of democracy.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 110–53, title XXI, § 2131, Aug. 3, 2007, 121 Stat. 533.)