SENATORS COONS, WARREN, COLLEAGUES INTRODUCE LEGISLATION TO STRENGTHEN THE FOREIGN CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT, COUNTERING PRESIDENT TRUMP'S NARROWED ENFORCEMENT OF LANDMARK ANTI-BRIBERY LAW

WASHINGTON, March 11 -- Sen. Chris Coons issued the following press release:

U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.), co-Chair of the Senate Law Enforcement Caucus and a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Andy Kim (D-N.J.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee, and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led their colleagues in introducing the FCPA Reinforcement Act to strengthen enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) of 1977.

Congress passed the FCPA unanimously in response to revelations of widespread bribery of foreign officials by U.S. companies, recognizing that such corruption impos...