A joint resolution to express the sense of the Congress with regard to eradicating world hunger in the 1990s.

Summary

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should work with other nations, agencies, and private voluntary organizations to overcome hunger in the 1990's by supporting efforts to: (1) eliminate deaths from famine through a commitment to humanitarian food aid, the expansion of famine prevention systems, and efforts to provide safe passage of food in areas of armed conflict; (2) reduce by 50 percent chronic hunger among the world's poorest people; (3) decrease by 50 percent malnutrition among women and children through efforts to enhance child survival and to reduce nutritional anemia in women; and (4) eradicate major nutritional deficiency diseases by providing vitamin A to prevent blindness and death and by providing iodine to prevent goiter and cretinism.

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Timeline

1. 25 September 1990

   Introduced

   Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 25 September 1990

   Introduced

   Introduced in Senate

   Source: IntroReferral

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Versions

• Introduced in Senate · undated · Official file

Documents

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• Introduced in Senate (text)

  Introduced in Senate · EN

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 25 September 1990

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Sponsors

• Sen. Pell, Claiborne [D-RI] · D · Sponsor
• Sen. Chafee, John H. [R-RI] · R · Sponsor
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