1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Combatting Foreign Influence Act of 2019 . 2. Findings; sense of Congress (a) Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) Foreign powers and agents are increasingly targeting the United States with malign foreign influence operations and campaigns. (2) In 2016, Kremlin and Kremlin-linked actors interfered in the presidential election and in response the intelligence community, including the Director of National Intelligence in the 2019 World Wide Threat Assessment, has repeatedly warned that such malign foreign influence operations and campaigns pose a growing threat to the national security of the United States. (b) Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that— (1) the operations of the Malign Foreign Influence Response Center should be integrated with existing task forces at individual agencies that have mandates and resources which are limited by their particular mission and budget in order to have an effective whole of government approach to countering malign foreign influence operations and campaigns; (2) the intelligence community and Congress should work together to resolve existing legal limitations on elements of the intelligence community to monitor malign foreign influence operations and campaigns; (3) the intelligence community and Congress should ensure that appropriate legal authorities are in place to protect the privacy and civil liberties of citizens of the United States; and (4) lessons learned from post-9/11 counterterrorism experiences should be applied to countering threats from malign foreign influence operations and campaigns. 3. Malign Foreign Influence Response Center (a) Establishment The National Security Act of 1947 ( 50 U.S.C. 3001 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 119B the following new section: 119C. Malign Foreign Influence Response Center (a) Definitions In this section: (1) Appropriate congressional committees The term appropriate congressional committees means— (A) the congressional intelligence committees