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legal/us/code/title-50/chapter-40/section-2361.md

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+type: "LegalText"
+title: "50 U.S.C. § 2361"
+description: "Sense of Congress concerning contracting policy"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 50
+title_name: "WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE"
+chapter_number: "40"
+chapter_name: "DEFENSE AGAINST WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION"
+section: "2361"
+citation: "50 U.S.C. § 2361"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
+source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc50@119-100.zip"
+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t50/s2361"
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+retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
+confidence: "official"
+tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
+---
+
+# 50 U.S.C. § 2361 - Sense of Congress concerning contracting policy
+
+## Text
+
+It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of State, to the extent authorized by law, should—
+
+(1) contract directly with suppliers in independent states of the former Soviet Union when such action would—
+
+(A) result in significant savings of the programs referred to in subchapter III; and
+
+(B) substantially expedite completion of the programs referred to in subchapter III; and
+
+(2) seek means to use innovative contracting approaches to avoid delay and increase the effectiveness of such programs and of the exercise of such authorities.
+
+(Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title XIV, § 1451, Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2730.)