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Rep. Fascell, Dante B. [D-FL-19]

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Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 761 (97th)passed

An amendment to permit the FCC to list criteria for making compensation to broadcasters adversely affected by this program. The amendment makes suggestions of what criteria may be established, although the Commission is not limited to those suggestions. They include: a) threshold loss of service to any compensation recommendation, b) duration, stability, and extent of Cuban interference, and c) limits on the type and extent of reimbursable expenses.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 229 (97th)passed

An amendment to the D.C. Committee amendment. The amendment sets out conditions for the location of foreign missions in the District of Columbia. The location of foreign missions shall be subject to the District of Columbia Foreign Missions Commission, which is created by this amendment as an independent agency of the District. Its members are to be a) five members of the D.C. Zoning Commission, Chairman of the National Capital Planning Commission, and the Secretary of Defense. The amendment sets criteria to be employed in granting foreign missions permission to locate their facilities, and provides for an appeal process.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 718 (98th)open

An amendment to the SMITH (NJ) amendment to remove the provision in the SMITH (NJ) amendment that permits use of funds in China's population planning programs if the President certifies that the programs do not include forced or coerced abortion. It substitutes language that prohibits the use of the funds in population planning programs in China and prohibits contributing the funds to international organizations or private or voluntary organizations that carry out such programs in China if the programs include forced or coerced abortion.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 571 (100th)passed

An amendment comprised of several amendments en bloc to accomplish the following: To reauthorize $10 million for agricultural assistance to Poland, and $1 million for projects to promote democratic values in Poland while alsoattempting to improve the quality of life there through various funding mechanisms; to require the State Department to assess the risk of the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons, and to report thereon; to express the sense of the Congress that the U.N. has failed to address the human rights abuses in Cuba in a responsible manner, and to condemn countries that have voted against consideration of Cuban abuse of human rights in the U.N.; to require the State Department to include in its annual human rights report an assessment of the observance of internationally recognized child labor rights by countries receiving U.S. aid; to direct the Comptroller General to report on the process of interagency review of certain agreements with controlled countries; to express the sense of the Congress that no uranium compounds in any form which are derived from South African ore shall be imported into the U.S.; to require the President to report to Congress on sources and uses of Soviet hard currency; to express the sense of the Congress against the Soviet policy on Jewish emigration; to commend the President for pressing the Soviet Union to adhere to its commitments to respect internationally recognized human rights; to direct the President to insure that the Congress is provided with reports containing full and compatible information on the status of all loans, credits, loan guarantees, and all other forms of repayable financial assistance provided.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 565 (100th)passed

An amendment comprised of several amendments en bloc to accomplish the following: To require that local currencies raised with U.S. aid be used for development purposes; to prohibit assistance to communist countries unless the President determines and reports that such assistance is vital to U.S. security, and that the government of the recipient country is taking steps to reduce economic reliance on Marxist-Leninist principles; to prohibit foreign assistance to any country which has in effect a Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation with the Soviet Union unless the President determines that such assistance is in the national interest of the U.S.; to direct the President to report to Congress every 3 months on the progress of countries receiving humanitarian aid to free themselves of the need for further assistance; to express the sense of the Congress that the vital national interests and security of the United States would be jeopardized if the U.S. became dependent on communist countries as the source for essential minerals and metals; and, to direct the President to report to Congress every 3 years on the impact and effectiveness of the U.S. economic assistance provided during each 3 year period.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 547 (100th)passed

An amendment consisting of six amendments en bloc to address the concerns of AID officials about the provision of development assistance under the Africa title of the bill; to conform the Africa title to the Continuing Resolution; to state that the President should encourage European and other allies to join the United States in applying the sanctions against South Africa outlined in the Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986, and to require the President to submit a report to Congress on progress in gaining such international support for sanctions; to earmark for FY 1988 no less than the $1.5 million used in FY 1987 for in-country natural resources and environmental training in sub-Saharan Africa; to earmark an additional $85 million from the Economic Support Fund in each of fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for assistance for sub-Saharan Africa; and to insert language regarding aid to Tunisia.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 534 (100th)passed

An amendment comprised of several amendments en bloc to earmark $3.5 million for verification and peacekeeping activities in support of the Central American peace agreement; express the sense of Congress that economic growth, development, and prosperity is possible in Central America if appropriate free-market reforms are initiated by nations of the region and supported by Western free-market democracies; express the sense of Congress that the government and the private sector in El Salvador must work together in a cooperative and constructive manner in solving that country's problems; express the sense of Congress that the Chilean Government should end its oppression of trade unions, opposition political parties, and freedom of expression; increase the funds earmarked for the Inter-American Development Bank by $4 million; express the sense of Congress that Nicaragua should undertake certain reforms to bring about lasting peace, pluralism, and democracy in that country; express the support of Congress for the Arias peace initiative; authorize $3 million for the Peace Corps program in Costa Rica; express the sense of Congress that unless or until the Nicaraguan Government is in full compliance with the Central American Peace Agreement, the countries of Western Europe should not provide any direct assistance to the Government of Nicaragua; suspend most assistance to Haiti until the democratic processes set forth in the constitution of Haiti are adhered to by the Government of Haiti; and, to place restrictions on assistance to Panama.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 541 (100th)passed

An amendment to express congressional concern about the recent assassination of Herbert Anaya Sanabria, who served as president of El Salvador's non-governmental Human Rights Commission. It instructs the President to offer investigative assistance of U.S. agencies to the Government of El Salvador. The amendment also requires the President to report to the Congress not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and on every 90th day thereafter during fiscal years 1988 and 1989, on efforts made by the government of El Salvador to identify and bring to trial the murderers of Herbert Anaya.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 507 (100th)passed

An amendment comprised of three amendments offered en bloc to earmark $8 million for a vitamin A deficiency program for children in developing countries, and to change the effective date of the earmarking provisions in the bill for basic education funds for developing countries from FY 1989 to 1988. The amendment also calls upon the President to exert U.S. leadership to achieve the earliest possible negotiation of an international convention to conserve the earth's biological diversity, and would require the President to submit a report to Congress on the progress in negotiating such a convention. Finally the amendment makes certain minor changes in the bill's provisions promoting assistance to micro-enterprises in the Third World.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 496 (100th)passed

An amendment consisting of several amendments en bloc to provide restrictions on transfers of Stinger missiles to the extent that the U.S. shall not transfer Stingers to any foreign military or paramilitary force except to NATO countries unless specifically authorized to do so by Congress. The amendment also limits Saudi Arabian acquisition of F-15 aircraft to models A,B,C, and D; prohibits sale, transfer or upgrades to the F-15E, and limits the total Saudi possession of F-15's to 60 at any one time. Finally, the amendment provides for authority to allow the Defense Security Assistance Agency and the Department of Defense to honor their loan guarantee contracts and to make all payments to the Federal Financing Bank according to originally specified payment schedules.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 455 (101st)passed

An amendment comprised of several amendments en bloc to: strike provisions in the bill which repeal the existing gap setting most FY 1990 State Department and USIA funds at FY 1989 levels or lower; remove the current law requirement that funds for the Board for International Broadcasting cannot be provided without prior authorization; provide that the $7.3 million authorized for the U.S. pavilion at the World's Fair in Seville, Spain also be spent for the U.S. pavilion at the World's Fair in Genoa, Italy; authorize $10 million in FY 1991 funds for the creation of a North-South Center in Florida; provide the Defense Department with the authority to finance the leasing of up to 11 UH-1H (Huey) helicopters to Bolivia and Peru for anti-narcotics purposes; and restore the Administration's authority to transfer up to 10% of military aid to economic aid accounts.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 274 (101st)passed

An amendment in the nature of a substitute which consists of the text of H.R. 3361 and which authorizes the same amounts as the bill for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and the On-Site Inspection Agency; revises the policy language in the bill governing OSIA to comply with the Administration requirements; states that OSIA should receive policy guidance through an interagency process established by the President, and that the Defense Secretary should provide OSIA with policy guidance from the interagency process; specifies that the ACDA Director should provide recommendations to the interagency process; and, in addition, requests, rather than requires, the creation of a working group on arms control verification and a report on a new Implementation and Compliance Bureau within ACDA.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 106 (101st)passed

An en bloc amendment consisting of several amendments to: clarify the authority granted in the bill with respect to existing law and make technical amendments to a previously adopted en bloc amendment; condemn Chinese assistance to the Kmer Rouge; express the sense of Congress that the U.S. give the highest national priority to accounting for Americans still missing in Southeast Asia; provide that $2 million of funds made available in the bill for development assistance shall be used for humanitarian assistance for displaced Burmese students on the Thai-Burma border.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 112 (101st)passed

An en bloc amendment consisting of several amendments to: express the sense of Congress that the U.S. should work toward the elimination of the policy of apartheid in South Africa; continue to promote direct talks between the Angolan opposition leaders; commend President Mobutu of Zaire for his efforts to achieve stability in southern Africa; condemn the abuse of human rights by the Government of Ethiopia; and commend the Government of Kenya for its contribution to promoting regional stability in East Africa.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 107 (101st)passed

An en bloc amendment consisting of several amendments which: commend the President for his actions with respect to human rights violations in China; instruct the Overseas Private Investment Corporation to continue the suspension of financial support to China; direct the President to suspend funds made available to the Trade and Development Agency for activities in China; continue the suspension of the exportation to China of a variety of items, including satellites, munititions, crime control equipment, and nuclear material or facilities.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 98 (101st)passed

An en bloc amendment made in order by the rule and comprised of several amendments to: Provide development assistance for Lebanon; expressing the sense of Congress that the U.N. should undertake a new initiative promoting the resettlement of New Famagusta by its former inhabitants; expressing the concern of Congress regarding human rights violations by the government of Yugoslavia; and condemning the use of excessive and lethal force by Soviet troops in their suppression of peaceful demonstrations in the Georgian Republic of Tbilisi.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 78 (101st)passed

An amendment comprised of several amendments en bloc to encourage a variety of transportation options, particularly those which are nonmotorized and low cost in nature, as real solutions for the mobility needs of poor people in developing countries; to improve pre-project planning and environmental impact assessments of projects by making use (as appropriate) of United States technical expertise, primarily in the private sector; and, to clarify the definition of the word "school" for the purposes of the bill to include any institution which provides activities of daily life training, vocation education, and related services to the mentally retarded.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 71 (101st)passed

An amendment comprised of several amendments en bloc to specify that the definition of foreign aid in the narcotics title does not include commodity agricultural export programs; to extend coverage of the bill's fair pricing provisions on military sales to cover non-recurring research and development costs; to revise procurement standards provisions as suggested by the Committee on Government Operations; to specify that all earmarks in the bill only refer to FY 1990 and FY 1991 funds; to eliminate the transfer of $5 million from the private sector revolving fund to the Trade and Development program and increase the overall earmark for TDP from $5 million to $30 million; provide that only Peru, Bolivia, and Columbia may receive a waiver of current law requiring a suspension of aid to countries which fall behind on debt repayments under certain conditions; eliminate the bill's provision specifying how the bill's earmarks for specific countries would be affected by Gramm-Rudman sequestration; retain the $20 million earmark for the Anglo-Irish International Fund, but remove the specification that the funds come from the Economic Support Fund; and, to delete the bill's provision permitting the re-obligation of funds that have been de-obligated.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 146 (102nd)passed

Amendments en bloc: 1) authorize assistance for the modernization of defense capabilities of countries of NATO's southern flank; 2) permit the transfer of excess United States military equipment to eligible drug-producing nations to encourage the establishment of cooperative military-law enforcement national counternarcotics programs in those nations; 3) authorize the transfer of non-lethal excess defense articles and small arms to friendly countries and to international and private organizations in order to protect and maintain wildlife habitats; 4) set an annual ceiling on transfers of excess defense articles; 5) add language supporting the inclusion of India, Pakistan, and China to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; 6) make Pakistan eligible for certain narcotics control and food assistance programs; 7) provide for terminating U.S. foreign aid to any country that uses it for unauthorized purposes; 8) set limitations on procurement outside the U.S.; 9) call for increasing assistance to the American University in Lebanon; 10) revise language condemning the attacks against those in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabach; 11) authorize technical assistance for any governmental agency or nongovernmental organization in the USSR that promotes democratic reforms, human rights and market-oriented reforms; 12) revise the l.st of countries that must be covered in a presidential certification on arms transfers; 13) express the sense of Congress concerning human rights violations in India; 14) express the sense of Congress concerning Japan's defense of air space and sea lanes; 15) authorize a GAO study of the impact of redirecting foreign assistance funds to domestic programs; and 16) add restrictions on security assistance to countries having an offensive chemical weapons program.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 131 (102nd)passed

Amendments en bloc: 1) increase disaster assistance by $30 million; 2) make Appropriate Technology International eligible for funds as a private voluntary organization; 3) make three technical revisions to the cargo preference rules; 4) add foreign military financing to the policies the President should coordinate when allocating resources; 5) require the Secretary of Defense to monitor end-item use of defense equipment by recipient countries; 6) provide the President certain authority to reallocate uncommitted foreign military financing funds, and adds humanitarian objectives to the list of findings on arms transfers; 7) add language concerning military assistance being consistent with economic assistance objectives; 8) call for establishment of an arms registry within the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe; 9) make technical corrections to the International Narcotics Control Strategy Report required under the bill; 10) add language creating the Enterprise for the Americas Facility and Environment for the Americas Board; 11) add the International College in Lebanon to the list of American institutions in Lebanon that should receive assistance; 12) establish an Eastern European Business Information Center System; 13) establish a task force to reform the Agency for International Development application process for a.d to Eastern Europe; 14) add language stating the the U.S. should encourage Albania in its efforts to open its society to Western ideas; 15) add language condemning the attacks against those in Armenia and in Nagorno-Karabach; 16) add language regarding the policy of Saudi Arabia towards Israel; 17) require the President to report to Congress before any military assistance is given to Lebanon; 18) add language stating that the future of Taiwan should be settled in a manner acceptable to the people on Taiwan; 19) add language calling for increased economic cooperation between the U.S. and Japan; 20) add language supporting the admission of the Republic of Korea into the United Nations; 21) express the sense of Congress regarding coercive abortions in the People's Republic of China; 22) express the sense of Congress that the Republic of Angola should be commended for the signing of peace accords; 23) authorize funds for mine clearing operations in Angola; 24) add language supporting reconciliation and reconstruction in Ethiopia; and 25) call for the end of the production and distribution of neo-Nazi video games in Europe.

United States · United States Congress

Law· HRH.R. 6187 (102nd)enacted

International Narcotics Control Act of 1992

United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1992

International Narcotics Control Act of 1992 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize appropriations for international narcotics control for FY 1993 and 1994. Exempts maritime law enforcement operations in archipelagic waters from a prohibition on U.S. participation in foreign police actions. Makes a prohibition on the use of narcotics control funds for the procurement of weapons or ammunition inapplicable (subject to congressional notification requirements) to: (1) weapons or ammunition for the defensive arming of aircraft used for narcotics control purposes; or (2) firearms and related ammunition provided to Department of State employees for narcotics control activities. Requires the President (currently, the Secretary of State) to maintain records on aircraft use under this title. Authorizes foreign military financing assistance under the Arms Export Control Act to be made available to finance the leasing of aircraft. Permits the use of narcotics control assistance to acquire land or real property for foreign military or law enforcement forces through leases of up to two years. (Current law prohibits the use of such assistance for such acquisitions by any means.) Prohibits the use of such funds (over a specified amount) for construction of facilities for use by such forces unless the President notifies the appropriate congressional committees. Revises congressional reporting and certification requirements with respect to international narcotics control. Amends the International Narcotics Control Act of 1989 to make certain dollar limitations on law enforcement assistance for Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru inapplicable on this Act's enactment date. Repeals obsolete provisions of specified Acts. Makes prohibitions on the provision of assistance to foreign law enforcement agencies inapplicable, during FY 1993 and 1994, to: (1) transfers of defense articles and services for counternarcotics purposes; and (2) foreign military financing and international military education and training for narcotics-related purposes. Makes provisions of law that restrict assistance to countries inapplicable with respect to narcotics-related assistance, provided that the President notifies the appropriate congressional committees. Authorizes the transfer of excess defense articles to major drug-transit countries. Prohibits the transfer of excess defense articles for conservation and wildlife management purposes or for modernization of military capability to any major illicit drug producing country or drug-transit country in Latin America or the Caribbean. Excludes construction equipment from the definition of "excess defense articles" for purposes of restricting the transfer of such equipment to foreign countries. Authorizes military education and training for civilian personnel from other than ministries of defense if such education and training would contribute to cooperation between military and law enforcement personnel with respect to counternarcotics law enforcement. Amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to prohibit the Bank from guaranteeing, insuring, or participating in an extension of credit in connection with sales of defense articles or services to any country (currently, countries designated under a section of the Internal Revenue Code as economically less developed countries). Exempts from such prohibition articles or services sold before September 30, 1997. Adds to the list of criteria required for approval of such financing that the President determines that the purchasing country has complied with restrictions concerning end use of such articles or services and has not used them to engage in human rights violations.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 586 (102nd)referred

Commending the Ad Hoc Commission of El Salvador upon the completion of its work in compliance with the January 1992 Peace Accords and expressing the confidence of the House of Representatives in President Alfredo Cristiani as he undertakes the actions necessary to implement fully, and in a timely manner the recommendations of the Ad Hoc Commission.

United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1992

Commends the Ad Hoc Commission of El Salvador on the completion of its work. Expresses the confidence of the House of Representatives in President Alfredo Cristiani as he undertakes the actions necessary to implement the recommendations of the Commission. Reaffirms the U.S. commitment to continued support of the peace process in El Salvador.