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Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act of 2012 - Directs the President to establish guidelines regarding the establishment of measurable goals, performance metrics, and monitoring and evaluation plans for U.S. foreign assistance.
Requires such guidelines to provide direction to federal departments and agencies that administer U.S. foreign assistance relating to: (1) resource monitoring, (2) project and program evaluation, and (3) analysis of findings and generalizations and their applicability to proposed project and program design. Requires: (1) each appropriate federal department or agency to begin using such guidelines within one year after their establishment, and (2) the President to submit a related report to Congress within 18 months.
Directs the President to require the Secretary of State to establish and maintain an Internet website to make publicly available comprehensive and accessible information on U.S. foreign assistance programs on a country-by-country and program-by program basis.
Authorizes a department or agency to use up to 5% of its foreign development assistance funds for activities under this Act.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 3159 as passed House amended on Dec 30, 2012. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
House Dec 30, 2012
Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act
Passed · Two-thirds required
390 Yea 0 Nay 41 not voting
Crossed both parties No voting member broke with their own party.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
431 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 3159 and vote against it. 30 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 3159 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
14 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.