The Helms Amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act, sometimes called simply the Helms Amendment, is a 1973 amendment, passed by the U.S. Congress in the...
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1973, the United States Congress passed the Helms Amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act. It states that, "no foreign assistance funds may be used to pay...
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Helms Amendment may refer one of two legislative actions initiated by US Senator Jesse Helms: Helms Amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act, US legislation...
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have taken effect in 2027. Abortion in the United States Helms Amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act, an amendment from 1973 that restricts US federal...
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The Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (Libertad) Act of 1996 (Helms–Burton Act), Pub. L. 104–114 (text) (PDF), 110 Stat. 785, 22 U.S.C. §§ 6021–6091)...
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from the aspects Bush disagreed with, namely the Mack Amendment. Despite Bush's efforts to pass the Cuban Democracy Act, Clinton still won the support...
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addition to Majority Whip Don Nickles, including powerful Foreign Relations chairman Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC). Despite initial opposition from the State...
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required USAID to eliminate all support for abortion. A further amendment of the Foreign Assistance Act in 1974 prohibited assistance for police, thus...
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Reproductive justice (category Feminism and the family)
examples: The Mexico City Policy, also known by some critics as the Global Gag Rule, and the related Helms Amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act, are controversial...
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Joe Biden (redirect from 47th Vice President of the United States)
marriage rights while in the Senate and voted for the Defense of Marriage Act, but opposed proposals for constitutional amendments that would have banned...
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the bill on March 8, 2001. Senators Frist, Jesse Helms (R-North Carolina), Hillary Clinton (D-New York), and Joseph Biden (D-Delaware) sponsored the bill...
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United States embargo against Cuba (redirect from Economic impacts of the U.S. embargo against Cuba)
Act of 1917, the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, the Cuban Assets Control Regulations of 1963, the Cuban Democracy Act of 1992, the Helms–Burton Act of...
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The Teller Amendment was an amendment to a joint resolution of the United States Congress, enacted on April 20, 1898, in reply to President William McKinley's...
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Military Government of Cuba (category Pages using infobox country or infobox former country with the flag caption or type parameters)
conditions of the amendment prohibited Cuba from signing any treaty allowing foreign powers to use the island for military purposes. The United States...
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funds disbursed to the states without violating the Tenth Amendment. United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995) The Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 is unconstitutional...
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introduced as an amendment to the Build Back Better Act and the legislative text was substituted. All Democrats in the Senate and House voted for the bill while...
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US Senate career of Joe Biden (category Pages containing links to subscription-only content)
legislative action to limit busing. That year, Helms proposed an anti-integration amendment to an education bill that would stop the Department of Health...
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Majority Whip at the time. It was quickly cosponsored by other senators, including Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair Jesse Helms. IRFA provided a...
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response to the Helms-Burton Act, the Foreign Extraterritorial Measures Act was amended to permit Canadians sued under the Helms-Burton Act, to counter-sue...
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Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2015 No. 40/2015 – Criminal Justice (Mutual Assistance) (Amendment) Act 2015 No. 41/2015 – Motor Vehicle...
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power for the first time in his presidency to veto the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act. The bill would have repealed the Dickey–Wicker Amendment, thereby...
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New Frontier (redirect from Manpower Development and Training Act)
Vaccination Assistance Act (1962) provided for the vaccination of millions of children against a number of diseases. The Social Security Act Amendments of 1963...
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the power to fully remove the embargo. The U.S. government passed the Helms–Burton Act in 1996, formally codifying the regulations such that only the...
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Ted Kennedy (redirect from The Lion of the Senate)
the nation's housing; the amendment strengthened the ability of the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity to enforce the Act and expanded the protected...
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Lend-Lease (redirect from An Act to Further Promote the Defense of the United States)
Lend-Lease, formally the Lend-Lease Act and introduced as An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States (Pub. L. 77–11, H.R. 1776, 55 Stat. 31, enacted...
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Public Health Service Act. The Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome amendments were compiled as Title II - Programs with Respect to Acquired Immune Deficiency...
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United States Department of Agriculture (redirect from An Act to Establish a Department of Agriculture)
crs/crsmthmatal0001&i=11. Helms, Douglas. "Eroding the Color Line: The Soil Conservation Service and the Civil Rights Act of 1964." Agricultural History...
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Assassination of John F. Kennedy in popular culture (category Works about the assassination of John F. Kennedy)
2023). "The Day Scott Bakula Leapt Into Lee Harvey Oswald : An interview with 'Quantum Leap' creator Donald Bellisario on why Oswald acted alone". Book...
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Prostitution in Thailand (redirect from Sex tourism to Thailand)
or coercion) remains legal and is not subject to punishment under Thai law. The Penal Code Amendment Act (No. 14), B.E. 2540 (1997) does not state that...
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Assassination of John F. Kennedy (redirect from The Assassination of JFK)
soon materialized as the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Confusion surrounding Johnson's succession led to the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the U.S Constitution,...
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