Date: May 19, 1980
Subject: Nicaragua Aid / Human Rights
Description: Zorinsky (D-NE) motion to table (kill) the Helms (R-NC) amendment to prohibit special aid to Nicaragua unless the President determined that Nicaragua was abiding by the American Bill of Rights. The Helms amendment challenged the vague, selectively-applied "human rights" considerations of the Carter foreign policy.
Result: Motion to Table Agreed to, 46-33
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