Date: July 28, 1983
Subject: "Contras" Support
Description: Bloomfield (R-MI) amendment to permit U.S. covert action in Nicaragua to continue if the President submitted to Congress a new plan for interdiction of arms being shipped from or through Nicaragua to anti-government forces in El Salvador. This would allow continued U.S. support for the Contras as long as the Sandinista regime continues sending arms to the Salvadoran guerrillas.
Result: Amendment Rejected, 203-223
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