PlainBillCongress, translated.Legislation. Context. Public interest.Resolution agreed to in Senate with an amendment and an amendment to the Title and an amended preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4978-4979; text as passed Senate: CR S4979; text of measure as reported in Senate: CR S4978-4979)
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Version 01 · Reported to Senate with amendment(s) · May 23, 2002
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the United States should build on the idea behind President Bush's proposal for the Millennium Challenge Account and increase foreign assistance spending by at least 25 percent for the next five years, with the goal of reaching an amount equal to or exceeding three percent of the Federal budget by 2010 to promote its humanitarian, economic, and security interests around the world.Calls for the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development to: (1) conduct a top-to-bottom evaluation of current foreign assistance efforts to evaluate effectiveness; (2) work with private voluntary organizations, foundations, and corporations to identify areas where increased targeted foreign assistance could help reduce poverty and to promote equitable economic growth and the development of democratic institutions; and (3) report foreign assistance recommendations to appropriate congressional committees within six months.
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Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA] · D–CA
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Resolution agreed to in Senate with an amendment and an amendment to the Title and an amended preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4978-4979; text as passed Senate: CR S4979; text of measure as reported in Senate: CR S4978-4979)
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Resolution agreed to in Senate with an amendment and an amendment to the Title and an amended preamble by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S4978-4979; text as passed Senate: CR S4979; text of measure as reported in Senate: CR S4978-4979)
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 389.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Biden with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title and with an amended preamble. Without written report.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Biden with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title and with an amended preamble. Without written report.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12007)
Introduced in Senate
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