PlainBillCongress, translated.Legislation. Context. Public interest.Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Congressional Research Service
Version 00 · Introduced in House · Mar 30, 1995
Calls for the President, in discussions or negotiations with the Government of North Korea pursuant to the implementation of the October 21, 1994, United States-Democratic People's Republic of Korea Agreed Framework (Framework), to uphold the following minimum conditions relating to nuclear nonproliferation: (1) all spent fuel from the graphite-moderated nuclear reactors and related facilities of North Korea should be removed from the territory of North Korea; (2) the International Atomic Energy Agency should have freedom to conduct inspections that it deems necessary to account for the plutonium and other nuclear materials in North Korea before any nuclear components for a light water reactor or technical data are delivered to North Korea; (3) the dismantlement of all declared graphite-based nuclear reactors and related facilities in North Korea, including reprocessing units, should be completed in accordance with the Framework and in a manner that effectively bars in perpetuity their reactivation; and (4) the United States should suspend its obligations under the Framework if North Korea attempts to reload its existing five megawatt nuclear reactor or resumes construction of nuclear facilities other than those permitted to be built under the Framework. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the Republic of Korea is the only acceptable source for the major nuclear components for light water reactors to be provided to North Korea under the Framework; and (2) after enactment of this Act, the President should not take further steps toward upgrading diplomatic relations with, or relaxing trade and investment barriers imposed against, North Korea without action by the Government of North Korea to engage in a dialogue with the Government of the Republic of Korea, implementation of the North-South Joint Declaration on the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, and progress toward the achievement of several long-standing U.S. policy objectives regarding North Korea and the Korean Peninsula. Permits funds authorized to be appropriated or appropriated under any provision of law other than the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to be used to provide assistance to North Korea or the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization only if such assistance is provided under the terms and conditions of such Act.
People & committees
Rep. Bereuter, Doug [R-NE-1] · R–NE
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Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the resolution, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the resolution, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H9047-9050)
Mr. Bereuter moved to suspend the rules and pass the resolution, as amended.
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1531)
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 22 - 14.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended).
Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific.
Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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