Date: September 24, 1981
Subject: El Salvador
Description: Helms (R-NC) substitute to the Lugar (R-IN) amendment. The Helms amendment would have transformed proposed conditions on U.S. military aid to El Salvador into a statement of the sense of Congress that U.S. military aid should be used to encourage a peaceful and democratic solution of the civil war there, protect human rights and promote economic and political reforms.
Result: Amendment Rejected, 47-51
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