; (C) the Committee on Finance of the Senate ; (D) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives ; (E) the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives ; and (F) the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives . (2) Foreign assistance The term foreign assistance means foreign assistance authorized under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 ( 22 U.S.C. 2251 et seq.). (3) Foreign state The term foreign state has the meaning given such term in section 1603(a) of title 28, United States Code. (4) Intelligence community The term intelligence community has the meaning given such term in section 3(4) of the National Security Act of 1947 ( 50 U.S.C. 3003(4) ). (5) Public corruption The term public corruption means the unlawful exercise of entrusted public power for private gain, including by bribery, nepotism, fraud, or embezzlement. (6) Rule of law The term rule of law means the principle of governance in which all persons, institutions, and entities, whether public or private, including the state, are accountable to laws that are— (A) publicly promulgated; (B) equally enforced; (C) independently adjudicated; and (D) consistent with international human rights norms and standards. 4. Sense of Congress regarding international standards It is the sense of Congress that the foundation for foreign states to fight corruption, kleptocracy, and illicit finance includes— (1) the United Nations Convention against Corruption, done at New York October 31, 2003; (2) recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force comprising the International Standards on Combating Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism & Proliferation; (3) (A) the Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, done at Paris December 17, 1997 (commonly referred to as the Anti-Bribery Convention )