Date: July 26, 1979
Subject: Panama Canal Treaties
Description: Helms (R-NC) amendment to prohibit treaty-mandated payments to Panama from canal revenues if either the U.S. President or Congress determined that Panama was directly or indirectly interfering in the affairs of another nation. The amendment would guarantee that Canal funds would not be laundered into financing Panamanian adventurism such as that evident in the Sandinista takeover of Nicaragua.
Result: Amendment Rejected, 22-73
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