Date: March 12, 1996
Subject: State Department Authorization
Description: Adoption of the conference report on the bill to require the President to abolish one of three international affairs agencies (the Agency for International Development, the U.S. Information Agency or the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency) and to shift its activites to the State Department. The measure would authorize $6.5 billion for fiscal 1996 and $6.5 billion for fiscal 1997 for the State Department, related agencies, and various foreign aid programs. The legislation also would ban funding for the forced repatriation of Indochinese boat people and grant political asylum to refugees fleeing countries with coercive population regimes, like China.
Result: Conference Report Agreed to, 226-172
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