April 16, 2025

Letter from Senator Grassley to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi requesting information to assist Congress to review enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) against The People’s Forum and Code Pink.

The letter emphasizes that both organizations received significant funding from Neville Roy Singham, whom the letter alleges “works closely with the Chinese government media machine and is financing its propaganda worldwide.” It also highlights examples of both organizations’ activities that could be construed as sympathetic to China. The letter concludes that both organizations have been funded and influenced by foreign principals (Mr. Singham and the “communist Chinese government”) and have engaged in “covered political activities that directly advance the communist Chinese government’s political and policy interests.”

March 26, 2025

Letter from Senator Jim Banks to U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi to urge the Department to “investigate Code Pink for potential violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), due to growing evidence of Code Pink’s deep connections with the CCP.”

It asks the Attorney General to provide information about Code Pink’s registration status and what efforts they are taking to counter the CCP’s “efforts to expand its influence in the United States through funding far-left entities that oppose U.S. foreign policy interests and advocate the interests of foreign adversaries.” According to Senator Banks, the letter was written after Code Pink activists disrupted a Senate Select Committee on intelligence screaming that “The greatest threat to global safety is Israel.” 

November 21, 2024

Letter from Ranking Member Ted Cruz of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation to the U.S. Attorney General asking for documents about whether “the UK-based non-profit Centre for the Governance of Artificial Intelligence” has registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and for the Justice Department’s “communications with the Centre or other ‘foreign counterparts’ as part of the DOJ’s ‘Justice AI’ initiative.”

The letter states that the Centre is a UK-based organization and so a foreign principal under FARA. It claims the organization engaged in “political activities” under FARA, including co-hosting a conference in San Francisco on “frontier AI safety frameworks” and providing public comments to the U.S Government in request for information regarding national AI policies. 

October 28, 2024

Letter from Representatives Jim Banks, Elise Stefanik, Carlos Gimenez, and Robert Wittman urging the Justice Department to investigate current and former leaders of the Henan Association of Eastern America for alleged violations of FARA and urging the Secretary of State to designate the group as a foreign mission for alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

October 8, 2024

Letter from Senators Grassley, Ernst, Cruz, and Scott requesting that the Justice Department and FBI investigate the National Students for Justice in Palestine, and affiliated student chapters, for potential violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

July 10, 2024

Letter from Senator Lindsay Graham (Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee) and Senator Marco Rubio (Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence) to the U.S. Attorney General calling on the Justice Department to investigate 18 U.S. nonprofits for potential violations of FARA for allegedly accepting money from Neville Roy Singham, an American philanthropist based in China.

The letter claims that Singham has “been funding and supporting various extremist entities in the United States with the express aim of causing havoc in our country” including “not only far-left, pro-CCP entities, but also radical, antisemitic entities” including those engaged in Pro-Palestine protests.

February 8, 2024

Letter from Chairman Comer to the Justice Department stating that the House Oversight Committee is exercising oversight over the administration and enforcement of FARA by the Department.

The letter claims the Department has considered extralegal factors in passing on or delaying enforcement of FARA against Al Jazeera and Tik Tok. It requests information from the Department about its enforcement practices, including in relation to these two entities.

February 5, 2024

Letter from Representatives Stefanik, Banks, and Waltz asking the Justice Department to investigate the International Crisis Group for potential FARA violations for its alleged connections with the Iranian government.

December 8, 2023

Letter from Senator Grassley and ten other U.S. Senators to the Attorney General calling on the Justice Department to investigate whether Chinese Students and Scholars Associations (CSSAs) operating on U.S. university campuses should register under FARA.

November 8, 2023

Letter from Representatives Josh Gottheimer and Don Bacon to the Attorney General requesting the Justice Department provide an update on its FARA enforcement actions against AJ+ and urging the Department require Tiktok to register under FARA because of its connections to China and noting its alleged anti-Israel bias.

August 8, 2023

Letter from Senator Rubio to Attorney General Garland asking the Justice Department to investigate nine U.S. nonprofits for potentially being foreign agents of the Chinese communist party for allegedly receiving money from Neville Roy Singham.

August 3, 2023

Letter from Representative Comer and Senator Cruz to the Justice Department asking them to provide information regarding potential FARA registration of prominent U.S. environmental nonprofits and funders for their alleged connections to China.

July 28, 2023

Letter from nine members of House of Representatives to the Justice Department detailing alleged influence of Iranian government at certain U.S. mosques and asking how the Department is using FARA to “go after” the alleged influence of the Iranian regime in the U.S.

February 2, 2023

Letter from three members of Congress calling on House leadership to suspend the press credentials of Al Jazeera at the U.S. Capitol for failing to register under FARA.

Letters from 2022 to 2020

Letter from Senator Chuck Grassley and three other U.S. Senators asking why the Justice Department has not required the Brookings Institution to register under FARA because of funding it has received from the government of Qatar to develop the Brookings Doha Center (August 16, 2022)

Letter from Representative Chip Roy asking the Justice Department to investigate whether LIV Golf is in violation of FARA because of its funding from the Government of Saudi Arabia and use of LIV Golf to enhance the government’s brand (July 11, 2022)

Letter from Senator Chuck Grassley and four other U.S. Senators asking the Justice Department why Al Jazeera Media Network, AJ+, and Rightly have not yet registered under FARA (July 1, 2022)

Letter from Senator Chuck Grassley asking the Justice Department to investigate whether Hunter Biden should have registered as a foreign agent for his connections with CEFC China Energy Co. Ltd. (November 9, 2020)

Letter from Representative Gooden to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) asking them to investigate whether environmental groups should have to register under FARA because of allegations that they were receiving foreign funding from either Russia or China and engaging in political activities in the US. (See letter in response from EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler stating that they will refer the matter to the Justice Department’s FARA Unit.) (October 8, 2020)

Letter from Senator Loeffler asking the Justice Department to investigate the use of U.S. nonprofit organizations by the Chinese government to interfere with or influence U.S. elections or policy. The letter does not name any specific U.S. nonprofit suspected of this activity but does call for any entity that has engaged in lobbying or “political activity” that has received Chinese funds to be reviewed for any potential violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. (October 8, 2020)

Letter from Senator Tom Cotton and Representative Mike Gallagher asking the Justice Department to investigate whether lobbyists for Chinese technology companies have to register under FARA after they were designated as Chinese military firms (September 15, 2020)

Letter from Representative Liz Cheney asking the Justice Department to investigate whether U.S. environmental groups are conduits of “foreign influence” because she claims their “anti-fracking” agendas align with the interests of Russia and China (September 4, 2020)

Letter from Senator Robert Menendez asking the Justice Department to investigate whether former Congressman David Rivera should have registered as a foreign agent for past work in relation to Venezuela (May 18, 2020)

Letter from Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer asking the Justice Department to investigate whether Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell should have registered as a foreign agent for past work (February 25, 2020)

Letter from 8 Senators and 27 Representatives calling on the Justice Department to investigate alleged violations of FARA by China Daily (February 6, 2020)

Letter from Representative Banks requesting Justice Department respond whether Xinhua News Agency should register as a foreign agent (January 22, 2020)

Letter from Senators Cotton, Cruz, and Braun requesting Justice Department investigate the National Iranian American Council (January 13, 2020)

Letters Prior to 2020

Letter from Sen. Rubio to Justice Department to investigate former Secretary of State John Kerry (Sept. 18, 2018)

Letter from 18 House members and 1 Senator requesting Justice Department investigate Al Jazeera (March 6, 2018)

Letter from 7 U.S. Senators requesting Justice Department investigate Chinese media organizations (Jan. 16, 2018)

In 2018, as part of an investigation into foreign influence of U.S. environmental nonprofits, the House Natural Resources Committee investigated whether four prominent U.S. environmental organizations needed to register as “foreign agents” under FARA. The investigation ended when Democrats took over the Committee in 2019.

• Letter to Earthjustice (Oct. 1, 2018)
• Letter to World Resources Institute (Sept. 5, 2018)
• Letter to Center for Biological Diversity (June 20, 2018)
• Letter to NRDC (June 5, 2018) (and here, July 16, 2018)