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United States · United States Congress · 4 October 2001
Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish and maintain on the Arlington Naval Annex, Virginia, a memorial dedicated to the men and women who lost their lives as a result of the terrorist attack on the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
United States · United States Congress · 4 October 2001
Amends the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 to designate Pennsylvania State route 60 as part of the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways.
United States · United States Congress · 4 October 2001
United States Defense of Freedom Bond Act of 2001 - Amends Federal law to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to issue "United States Defense of Freedom Bonds," in response to the acts of terrorism perpetrated against the United States on September 11, 2001, to aid in the funding of the war against terrorism.
United States · United States Congress · 4 October 2001
Office of Homeland Security Act of 2001 - Establishes the Office of Homeland Security within the Executive Office of the President. Requires the Director of the Office to: (1) create a national strategy for homeland security, to include all aspects of prevention and response to terrorist activities; (2) develop a national budget for homeland security; (3) review Federal activities to insure effective implementation of such strategy; (4) coordinate Federal homeland security activities to remove duplication and gaps; (5) certify Federal agency counterterrorism budgets; (6) direct development of a comprehensive national assessment of the threat to homeland security; (7) oversee interagency information sharing; and (8) establish a center within the Office to disseminate information learned from homeland security exercises. Establishes a Homeland Security Advisory Council to advise the President and Director on the creation and implementation of the national strategy, and the Director on the operation of the Office. Requires the Director to review additional legal authorities needed to prevent and respond effectively to terrorist threats, including the role of the Department of Defense and the imposition of regulations on civilian populations and private entities during a state of emergency.
Austria · National Council · 3 October 2001
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Anton Gaál, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Landesverteidigung betreffend Vorkommnisse an der Universität Salzburg <i>(Verletzung eines Demonstranten durch einen</i> <i>Bundesheer-Offizier bei einer gemeinsamen Veranstaltung der</i> <i>Österreichischen Offiziersgesellschaft des Vereins</i> <i>"Salzburger Wehrgeschichtliches Museum und des</i> <i>Österreichischen Kameradschaftsbundes)</i>
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 2001
Small Business Leads to Economic Recovery Act of 2001 - Small Business Emergency Loan Assistance Act of 2001 - Amends the Small Business Act to provide assistance to small business concerns affected by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, including through: (1) deferment of repayment and forgiveness of interest on new and existing disaster loans; (2) a temporary loan program; and (3) the temporary suspension of guarantee fees. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the limitation and phase-out threshold for expensing depreciable business assets; (2) allow expensing of computer software; (3) shorten the computer/software depreciation recovery period; (3) increase the depreciation limits for business vehicles and the allowable deduction for business meals; (4) exclude government-guaranteed capital borrowed by Debenture Small Business Investment Companies from debt for purposes of unrelated business taxable income; and (5) repeal the alternative minimum tax on individuals and increase its availability to small corporations by raising the ceiling for the gross receipts test. Increases small business set-aside opportunities in military construction, Federal agency procurement, and emergency sole source procurement.
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 2001
Veterans' Benefits Act of 2001 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to increase, as of December 1, 2001, the rates of veterans' disability compensation, additional compensation for dependents, the clothing allowance for certain disabled adult children, and dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and children. Authorizes the Secretary, prior to October 1, 2001, to sell real property acquired as the result of a default on a loan guaranteed or made by the Secretary. Makes permanent: (1) a monthly pension limit for certain veterans receiving Medicaid-covered nursing home care; (2) certain veteran's health care and medication copayment requirements; and (3) the authority for the Department of Veterans Affairs to recover the cost of certain care and services furnished to a veteran in connection with a non-service-connected disability.
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 2001
Department of Veterans Affairs Nurse Recruitment and Retention Enhancement Act of 2001 - Amends the Department of Veterans Affairs employee incentive scholarship program to: (1) repeal a provision requiring commencement of participation in the program prior to December 31, 2001; (2) reduce from two years to one the required period of continuous Department employment for program participation; (3) revise scholarship amounts; and (4) increase from three to six years the number of school years for which a scholarship may be paid while limiting the total payment to the cost of three years of full-time coursework. Repeals a provision terminating on December 31, 2001, the education debt reduction program. Increases the maximum debt reduction amount under such program and allows the annual adjustment of such amount. Allows the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, until December 31, 2001, to expand the number of individuals eligible under such program. Authorizes additional pay for Saturday duty for health care professionals in the Department's Veterans Health Administration (VHA). Allows unused sick leave to be included in the annuity computation for VHA registered nurses. Directs the Secretary to: (1) evaluate the efficacy of the Department's nurse managed health care clinics; (2) establish a nationwide policy on the staffing of Department medical facilities; (3) report on the use of authorities for retaining experienced nurses; and (4) report on mandatory overtime required of licensed nurses and nurse assistants providing direct patient care.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 2001
TRICARE Benefits Modernization Act of 2001 - Directs the Secretary of Defense to: (1) terminate the individual case management program under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS); and (2) integrate its beneficiaries and services into the TRICARE program (a Department of Defense managed care program). Makes limits on custodial care under the case management program inapplicable to domiciliary or custodial care incident to other authorized health care. Requires the Secretary to provide long-term health care benefits under TRICARE so as to integrate such benefits with those provided under TRICARE on a less than long-term basis. Allows post-hospital extended care services in a skilled nursing facility to continue for as long as is medically necessary and appropriate. Provides extended health care benefits for military dependents who have a serious physical disability or any extraordinary physical or psychological condition (currently limited to moderately or severely mentally retarded dependents). Outlines benefits provided and copayment requirements. Allows a dependent, in order to receive outpatient mental health services under a TRICARE contract in excess of the amount available in that year, to convert any unused period of inpatient mental health benefit still available. Makes a physician's determination that a service or supply is medically or psychologically necessary for a TRICARE patient conclusive, unless clearly erroneous. Prohibits such determinations from being subject to peer review. Includes orthotic devices, hearing aids, and rehabilitative therapy among the TRICARE services authorized for military dependents. Outlines types of durable medical equipment authorized to be provided.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 2001
Provide Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (PATRIOT) Act of 2001 - Amends the Federal criminal code to: (1) apply a court order for a pen register or trap and trace devices to any person or entity providing wire or electronic communication service in the United States whose assistance may facilitate execution of the order; (2) allow a trap and trace device to identify the source (but not the contents) of a wire or electronic communication; (3) permit seizure of voice mail messages under a warrant; (4) make it lawful to intercept the wire or electronic communication of a computer trespasser in certain circumstances; (5) allow subpoenas for records of electronic communications to include temporarily assigned network addresses; (6) provide for nationwide service of search warrants for electronic evidence; and (7) permit electronic communication and remote computing service providers to make emergency disclosures to a governmental entity of customer electronic communications to protect life and limb. Amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to: (1) authorize 90-day orders of electronic surveillance and search warrants regarding non-U.S. persons under foreign intelligence surveillance; (2) require a court order approving an electronic surveillance to direct any person to furnish necessary information, facilities, or technical assistance in circumstances where the Court finds that the actions of the surveillance target may have the effect of thwarting the identification of a specified person; (3) require an application for an electronic surveillance order or search warrant to certify that a significant purpose (currently, the sole or main purpose) of the surveillance is to obtain foreign intelligence information; and (4) authorize the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (or designee) to apply for an court order requiring production of certain business records for foreign intelligence and international terrorism investigations. Makes it lawful for foreign intelligence information obtained as part of a criminal investigation to be provided to any Federal law-enforcement-, intelligence-, protective-, national-defense, or immigration personnel, or the President or Vice President. Repeals the requirement that the FBI Director (or designee) certify the existence of specific and articulable facts that a person or entity is believed to be a foreign power or its agent when requesting a wire or electronic communication service provider or consumer reporting agency to provide access to telephone toll, electronic communication, and other specified transactional records for counterintelligence purposes. Authorizes the President to: (1) block during an investigation any rights, power, or privilege with respect to, or transactions involving, any property in which any foreign country or foreign national has any interest; and (2) confiscate any property (subject to U.S. jurisdiction) of a foreign country, organization, or national against whom U.S. armed forces may be used pursuant to a statute authorizing use of force, or that has been involved in an armed attack against the United States. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to broaden the scope of aliens ineligible for admission and deportable due to terrorist activities. Defines "terrorist organization" as: (1) a designated foreign terrorist organization; or (2) a group of two or more individuals which engages in, or has a significant subgroup which engages in, specified terrorist-related activities. Provides for the mandatory detention until removal from the United States (regardless of any relief from removal) of an alien certified by the Attorney General as a suspected terrorist or threat to national security. Limits judicial review to habeas corpus proceedings in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Broadens visa information disclosure provisions. Authorizes appropriations for increased Border Patrol and Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) personnel on the Canadian border. Provides for the sharing of certain FBI criminal history extracts with the Department of State and the INS. Provides for: (1) special immigrant status for certain alien victims of terrorist activities; and (2) humanitarian relief for certain surviving alien spouses and children of U.S. citizens killed by such activities. (Excludes terrorists or family members from such benefits.) Amends the Federal criminal code to: (1) extend the statute of limitations for Federal terrorism and specified other offenses without limit; (2) provide for alternative maximum penalties for terrorism crimes; (3) make the penalties for attempts and conspiracies the same as the penalties for terrorism offenses; (4) make specified terrorism crimes Racketeer Influenced And Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute predicates; (5) prescribe penalties for knowing possession in certain circumstances of biological agents, toxins, or delivery systems, especially by certain restricted persons; (6) prescribe penalties for support of terrorism through expert advice or assistance, and for harboring any person known to have committed or to be about to commit a terrorism offense; (7) increase to $10,000 the minimum civil damages recoverable for violations of prohibitions against unlawful governmental access to or disclosure of stored wire and electronic communications and transactional records; (8) declare additional extraterritorial Federal jurisdiction over any Federal terrorism offense involving a U.S. national or directed at U.S. security or interests; and (9) establish Federal jurisdiction over crimes committed at U.S. facilities abroad. Amends the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to permit: (1) Federal magistrates in any district in which terrorism-related activities may have occurred to issue search warrants for searches within or outside the district; and (2) disclosure to specified Federal personnel of Federal grand jury matters pertaining to terrorism or national security. Qualifies a Federal terrorism offense for collection of DNA for identification. Establishes criminal penalties for: (1) interference with a Federal law enforcement agent engaged in specified protective functions of a special agent of the Department of State and the Foreign Service; and (2) conduct directed against an individual under the protection of such special agents. Amends Federal criminal law to: (1) extend money laundering penalties to the laundering of the proceeds of terrorism; and (2) subject to civil forfeiture all assets, foreign or domestic, of terrorist organizations. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury until January 1, 2004, to disclose to Federal law enforcement agencies, in accordance with specified requirements, tax return information that may be related to terrorism and national security investigations, including the Department of Justice, Department of the Treasury, and Federal intelligence agencies for use by officers and employees (including State or local law enforcement personnel part of a Federal team) who are personally and directly engaged in such an investigation or response. Provides for tax return information disclosures pursuant to an ex parte order by a Federal district court judge or magistrate. Amends Federal criminal law to subject to U.S. extraterritorial jurisdiction any fraud and related activity in connection with access devices (e.g., credit cards). Provides for emergency funding of specified Office of Justice programs, rewards by the Attorney General and the Department of State, Immigration and Naturalization Service overtime. Urges a $25 million State Department reward for Osama bin Laden and other leaders of the September 11 attacks. Amends the Reclamation Recreation Management Act of 1992 to set criminal penalties for violation of security regulations for reclamation dams, facilities, and resources. Authorizes certain officer and employees within a Reclamation project or on Reclamation lands to carry firearms, make arrests, issue warrants, and conduct investigations. Authorizes the FBI Director to expedite the employment of translators to support counterterrorism investigations and operations without regard to applicable Federal personnel requirements and limitations, but subject to necessary security requirements. Directs the Inspector General of the Department of Justice to appoint a Deputy Inspector General for Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, and the FBI to review allegations of abuse of civil rights, civil liberties, and racial and ethnic profiling by government employees and officials.
Germany · German Bundestag · 28 September 2001
Germany · German Bundestag · 28 September 2001
Austria · National Council · 26 September 2001
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Rudolf Parnigoni, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Landesverteidigung betreffend die Garnisonen Horn und Weitra
Austria · National Council · 26 September 2001
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Helmut Dietachmayr, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Landesverteidigung betreffend Stationierung der "Draken" bzw. "Drakennachfolger" in Hörsching
Austria · National Council · 26 September 2001
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Anton Gaál, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Landesverteidigung betreffend die Situation der Verpflegsversorgung im österreichischen Bundesheer
Austria · National Council · 26 September 2001
Antrag der Abgeordneten Anton Gaál, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend ein Bundesgesetz, mit dem das Wehrgesetz 1990 geändert wird
Germany · German Bundestag · 26 September 2001
Zehn Jahre Stasi-Unterlagen-Gesetz - zehn Jahre BStU, Behörde im Wandel, Akteneinsicht, Arbeitsweise der Behörde, Themen in der öffentlichen Debatte: Unterlagen über Personen der Zeitgeschichte, Aussagekraft von MfS-Unterlagen, sog. "Rosenholz"-Unterlagen und die SIRA-Datenbank, zehn häufig gestellte Anfragen
United States · United States Senate · 25 September 2001
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 2001
Military Construction Appropriations Act, 2002 - Appropriates funds for FY 2002 for military construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure functions administered by the Department of Defense (DOD), namely: (1) military construction for the Army, Navy, and Air Force, DOD, the Army and Air National Guards, and the Army, Naval, and Air Force reserves; (2) the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Security Investment Program; (3) family housing for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force; (4) family housing, DOD; (5) the Department of Defense Family Housing Improvement Fund; (6) the Homeowners Assistance Fund, Defense; and (7) the Department of Defense Base Closure Account 1990. Specifies restrictions and authorizations regarding the use of funds appropriated in this Act and in other military construction appropriations Acts. Directs the Secretary of Defense to notify the appropriate congressional committees 30 days in advance of the plans and scope of any military exercise involving U.S. personnel if construction costs are anticipated to exceed $100,000. Provides for the transfer of lapsed unobligated military construction and family housing funds into the Foreign Currency Fluctuations, Defense account. Directs the Secretary to report to the congressional appropriations committees on actions proposed by DOD to encourage other member nations of NATO, Japan, Korea, and other U.S. allies in the Arabian Gulf to assume a greater share of the common defense burden of such nations and the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 2001
Authorizes the President to provide assistance (through the export of defense articles or defense services, export of dual-use items, or extension of international financial assistance) to Pakistan and India if the President determines that it is in the national interest of the United States and important to U.S. efforts to respond to, deter, or prevent acts of international terrorism.
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 2001
Show Your Pride in the Military Act of 2001 - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to accept monetary contributions for financing the repair of the Pentagon Reservation (the Pentagon and its related facilities) following the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. Requires the deposit of such contributions into the Pentagon Reservation Maintenance Revolving Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 2001
Makes continuing appropriations for FY 2002. Appropriates amounts for continuing, at the current rate of operations, projects or activities which were conducted in FY 2001 and for which appropriations, funds, or other authority would be available in: (1) the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002; (2) the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002; (3) the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2002; (4) the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2002; (5) the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002; (6) the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2002; (7) the Military Construction Appropriations Act, 2002; (8) the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002; (9) the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 2002; and (10) the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002. Appropriates amounts for continuing, at the current rate of operations, projects or activities which were conducted in FY 2001 and for which appropriations, funds, or other authority was made available under: (1) the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2001; (2) the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001; and (3) the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2001. Provides funding under this resolution until enactment into law of any covered appropriation or the applicable appropriations Act (without any provision for the covered appropriation) or October 16, 2001, whichever occurs first. Authorizes continuation of other specified activities through such date.
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 2001
Sets forth the rule (modified closed) for the consideration of H.R. 2586 (FY 2002 Department of Defense funding authorization).
United States · United States Senate · 21 September 2001
United States · United States Senate · 21 September 2001
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 2001
Intelligence to Prevent Terrorism Act of 2001 - Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to require the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) to establish requirements and priorities for, and manage the analysis and dissemination of, all foreign intelligence collected under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (the Act). Requires the inclusion of international terrorist activities within the scope of foreign intelligence under the Act. Authorizes any officer or employee of the intelligence community to establish and maintain intelligence relationships to acquire information on terrorists and terrorist organizations. Provides temporary authority to defer the submission to Congress of certain reports on intelligence and intelligence-related matters. Excludes from the definition of "electronic surveillance" the interception of instructions to electronic devices solely for the operation of such devices. Provides the duration of an order for the electronic surveillance or physical search of an agent of a foreign power. Requires the Attorney General or head of any other Federal department or agency to expeditiously disclose to the DCI any foreign intelligence acquired in the course of a criminal investigation. Requires the DCI and Secretary of the Treasury to jointly report to Congress on the feasibility and desirability of reconfiguring the Foreign Asset Tracking Center and the Office of Foreign Assets Control to provide for the analysis and dissemination of foreign intelligence relating to the financial capabilities and resources of international terrorist organizations. Requires the DCI to establish and maintain the National Virtual Translation Center for timely and accurate translations of foreign intelligence for elements of the intelligence community. Requires the Attorney General to provide a program of training to Government officials regarding the identification and use of foreign intelligence.
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 2001
Expresses the sense of Congress that in light of the attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001: (1) the United States steel industry is vital to the national security interests of the United States; and (2) the United States should place a priority on using steel produced in the United States in order to help rebuild our Nation and support any future military efforts in response to such attacks.
Germany · German Bundestag · 21 September 2001
Germany · German Bundestag · 21 September 2001
Germany · German Bundestag · 21 September 2001
Germany · German Bundestag · 21 September 2001
United States · United States Congress · 20 September 2001
Military Construction Appropriations Act, 2002 - Appropriates funds for FY 2002 for military construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure functions administered by the Department of Defense (DOD), namely: (1) military construction for the Army, Navy, and Air Force, DOD, the Army and Air National Guards, and the Army, Naval, and Air Force reserves; (2) the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Security Investment Program; (3) family housing and related operation and maintenance for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force; (4) family housing, DOD; (5) the Department of Defense Family Housing Improvement Fund; (6) the Homeowners Assistance Fund, Defense; and (7) the Department of Defense Base Closure Account 1990. Specifies restrictions and authorizations regarding the use of funds appropriated in this Act and in other military construction appropriations Acts. Directs the Secretary of Defense to notify the appropriate congressional committees 30 days in advance of the plans and scope of any military exercise involving U.S. personnel if construction costs are anticipated to exceed $100,000. Provides for the transfer of lapsed unobligated military construction and family housing funds into the Foreign Currency Fluctuations, Defense account. Directs the Secretary to report to the congressional appropriations committees on actions proposed by DOD to encourage other member nations of NATO, Japan, Korea, and other U.S. allies in the Arabian Gulf to assume a greater share of the common defense burden of such nations and the United States. Prohibits any entity from expending funds appropriated by this Act unless such entity agrees to comply with the Buy American Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 September 2001
Purple Heart Stamp Act of 2001 - Directs the U.S. Postal Service to issue a semipostal (first-class postage stamp sold at a premium) in order to afford the public a convenient way to contribute to funding for the veterans programs and services offered by the Military Order of the Purple Heart of the United States of America, Incorporated.
Austria · National Council · 19 September 2001
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Anton Leikam, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Landesverteidigung betreffend Flüge des Kärntner Landeshauptmannes Jörg Haider mit Bundesheerhubschraubern
United States · United States Congress · 19 September 2001
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2002 for: (1) procurement, including aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and chemical agents and munitions destruction; (2) research, development, test and evaluation; (3) operation and maintenance, including defense working capital funds; (4) the Armed Forces Retirement Home; and (5) active and reserve military personnel, including authorized end strengths. Increases as of January 1, 2002, the rates of military basic pay. Extends certain bonus and special and incentive pay authorities. Authorizes: (1) an accession bonus program for officers with critical skills; and (2) certain travel and transportation allowances. Sets forth provisions or requirements concerning: (1) commissaries and nonappropriated fund instrumentalities; (2) active and reserve military personnel policy, including the discharge or retirement of reserve personnel for years of service or age; (3) military education and training, including medical training; (4) military decorations, awards, and commendations; (5) retirement and survivor benefits; (6) military health care; (7) acquisition policy and management, including acquisition workforce development; (8) general contracting procedures and limitations; (9) Department of Defense (DOD) organization and management; (10) funds for combatant commands for combating terrorism; (11) reporting requirements, including a report on DOD policies, plans, and procedures for combating terrorism; (12) DOD civilian personnel authority, including authority for additional intelligence personnel; (13) matters relating to other nations, including cooperative threat reduction programs; (14) military construction, military family housing, military land conveyances, and defense base closures and realignment; and (15) Department of Energy national security authorizations. Authorizes the President to dispose of specified obsolete and excess materials in the National Defense Stockpile.
United States · United States Congress · 19 September 2001
Ballistic Missile Defense Act of 2001 - Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of ballistic missile defense funding under the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2002 for any activity inconsistent with the requirements of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 (ABM Treaty) unless such Treaty is modified in a way which permits such activity or the President certifies the failure of good faith efforts to develop a new strategic framework or modify such treaty. Requires the passage of a joint resolution specifically authorizing such obligation or expenditure. Sets forth the program elements required to be submitted in support of any budget requests for activities of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization. Requires budget justification materials to also specify the amounts requested for specific categories of systems and established programs. Permits the Secretary of Defense to obligate additional funds for an established program or class of systems, subject to specified limits and notification requirements. Directs the Secretary to submit to the congressional defense committees an annual program plan and an annually updated baseline document for the ballistic missile defense research and development program.
Germany · German Bundestag · 19 September 2001
Terroristische Angriffe vom 11. September 2001 kein Krieg gegen die USA, sondern ein Krieg gegen die zivilisierte Welt, Solidarität mit den USA, VN-Resolution 1368, Beschluss des NATO-Rats, zum Bündnisfall, Bekämpfung des Terrorismus, Konfliktlösung im Nahen Osten, keine religiöse Rechtfertigung der terroristischen Gewalt, Optimierung der Sicherheit des Luftverkehrs, Unterbindung der Finanzströme des Terrors, Maßnahmen zur Stärkung der inneren Sicherheit, Schaffung eines zeitgemäßen Zuwanderungsrechts, Anteilnahme für die deutschen Opfer und ihre Angehörigen, Überwindung der Angst durch Zuversicht
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 2001
Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2002 for the conduct of intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the: (1) Central Intelligence Agency; (2) Department of Defense; (3) Defense Intelligence Agency; (4) National Security Agency; (5) Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force; (6) Departments of State, the Treasury, and Energy; (7) Federal Bureau of Investigation; (8) National Reconnaissance Office; and (9) National Imagery and Mapping Agency. Specifies that the amounts authorized and the authorized personnel ceilings as of September 30, 2002, for such activities are those specified in the classified Schedule of Authorizations. Allows the Director of Central Intelligence, with the approval of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to authorize employment of civilian personnel in excess of the number authorized for FY 2002 (by not more than two percent) when necessary to the performance of important intelligence functions. Authorizes appropriations for the Community Management Account of the Director of Central Intelligence for FY 2002, as well as for full-time personnel for elements within such Account. Earmarks a specified amount of such funds for the National Drug Intelligence Center. Authorizes appropriations for FY 2002 for the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability Fund. Specifies that the authorization of appropriations by this Act shall not be deemed to constitute authority for the conduct of any intelligence activity which is not otherwise authorized by the Constitution or laws of the United States. Amends the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act to repeal a provision exempting the actions involving the identification and blocking of assets of significant foreign narcotics traffickers from judicial review. Requires the Attorney General to carry out a comprehensive review of current protections against the unauthorized disclosure of classified information. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 to require the President to make a certification to Congress (currently, only a determination) with respect to illicit drug trafficking before foreign agents may interdict, with immunity, an aircraft in that country's airspace. Extends through FY 2003 the Central Intelligence Agency Voluntary Separation Pay Act.
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 2001
United States Defense of Freedom Bond Act of 2001 Amends Federal law to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to issue United States Defense of Freedom Bonds in response to the acts of terrorism perpetrated against the United States on September 11, 2001.
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 2001
Authorizes: (1) the Secretary of the military department concerned to posthumously grant disability retirement for individuals who die in the line of duty while on active duty; and (2) the payment of an annuity to the dependent survivors of such individuals under the Survivor Benefit Plan.
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 2001
Authorization for Use of Military Force - Authorizes the President to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations, or persons. States that this Act is intended to constitute specific statutory authorization within the meaning of the War Powers Resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 2001
U.S.- India Security Cooperation Act of 2001 - Amends the Arms Export Control Act with respect to the prohibition on U.S. economic and military assistance to any previously non-nuclear-weapon state that detonates a nuclear explosive device. Limits such prohibition to such states that detonate such a device after May 13, 1998 (thus exempting India from such sanctions).
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 2001
Authorization for Use of Military Force - Authorizes the President to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations, or persons. States that this Act is intended to constitute specific statutory authorization within the meaning of the War Powers Resolution.
Germany · German Bundestag · 14 September 2001
Germany · German Bundestag · 14 September 2001
Germany · German Bundestag · 14 September 2001
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 2001
Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions concerning the death of a U.S. military or civilian employee resulting from a terrorist activity or military action to exempt such employee from income taxes if the activity or action occurred either inside or outside the United States. (Currently, the exemption from income taxes in such a situation is limited only to a death resulting from an activity or action which occurred outside the United States.) Makes the additional estate tax inapplicable in the case of a U.S. military or civilian employee who died as a result of wounds incurred in a terrorist activity or military action which occurred either inside or outside the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 2001
Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2002 for the conduct of intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the: (1) Central Intelligence Agency; (2) Department of Defense; (3) Defense Intelligence Agency; (4) National Security Agency; (5) Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force; (6) Departments of State, the Treasury, and Energy; (7) Federal Bureau of Investigation; (8) National Reconnaissance Office; and (9) National Imagery and Mapping Agency. Specifies that the amounts authorized and the authorized personnel ceilings as of September 30, 2002, for such activities are those specified in the classified Schedule of Authorizations, which shall be made available to the Senate and House Appropriations Committees and the President. Allows the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), with the approval of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to authorize employment of civilian personnel in excess of the number authorized for FY 2002 (by not more than two percent) when necessary to the performance of important intelligence functions. Requires notification of the congressional intelligence committees. Authorizes appropriations for the Intelligence Community Management Account for FY 2002, as well as for full-time personnel for elements within such Account. Authorizes appropriations for FY 2002 for the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability Fund. Specifies that the authorization of appropriations by this Act shall not be deemed to constitute authority for the conduct of any intelligence activity which is not otherwise authorized by the Constitution or laws of the United States. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the DCI should continue to direct that elements of the intelligence community should competitively award contracts in a manner that maximizes the procurement of products properly designated as having been made in the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 2001
Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to award the Purple Heart to civilian employees of the Department of Defense who are killed or wounded as a result of a terrorist attack on or after September 10, 2001.
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 2001
Declares that a state of war exists between the United States and: (1) any entity that committed acts of international terrorism against the United States on September 11, 2001, or that commits such acts thereafter; and (2) any country or entity that has provided or provides support or protection for any such entity. Authorizes and directs the President to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States and the resources of the U.S. Government to carry on war against such entities and countries. Pledges all such resources to bring the conflict to a successful termination.