3.0.0 3286 2023-01-15T07:32:53Z 2023-01-15T07:32:53Z House H HR 2003-10-08 108 hsfa00 Foreign Affairs Committee House Standing Referred to 2003-10-08T14:01:20Z 2003-10-08 Referred to the House Committee on International Relations. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsfa00 Foreign Affairs Committee 2003-10-08 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1998-1999) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2003-10-08 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2003-10-08 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress W000672 Rep. Wolf, Frank R. [R-VA-10] FRANK WOLF R VA R. 10 N H001022 Rep. Hyde, Henry J. [R-IL-6] HENRY HYDE R IL J. 6 2003-10-08 True R000486 Rep. Roybal-Allard, Lucille [D-CA-34] LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD D CA 34 2003-11-06 False S000248 Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-16] JOSE SERRANO D NY E. 16 2003-11-06 False S000672 Rep. Snyder, Vic [D-AR-2] VICTOR SNYDER D AR F. 2 2003-11-21 False E000092 Rep. Ehlers, Vernon J. [R-MI-3] VERNON EHLERS R MI J. 3 2003-12-08 False M000312 Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-3] JAMES MCGOVERN D MA P. 3 2003-12-08 False K000009 Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9] MARCY KAPTUR D OH 9 2003-12-08 False International Affairs Americans in foreign countries Armed Forces and National Security Citizen participation Congress Congressional reporting requirements Decision making Democracy Developing countries Economic assistance Education Elementary and secondary education Federal advisory bodies Foreign Trade and International Finance Free trade Government Operations and Politics Health International agencies Labor and Employment Nongovernmental organizations Occupational health and safety Performance measurement Security classification (Government documents) War International Affairs

00 2003-10-08 Introduced in House 2004-02-26T18:35:12Z HELP Commission Act - Establishes the Helping Enhance the Livelihood of People (HELP) Around the Globe Commission to: (1) identify objectives and beneficiaries of U.S. development assistance; (2) evaluate cases in which assistance has been successful; (3) study ways of expanding educational opportunities and investments in people, coordinating U.S. assistance programs with those of other countries and international organizations, ensuring the safety of development assistance workers, strengthening indigenous nongovernmental organizations in grassroots development, placing conditions on governments receiving assistance, and measuring results of targeting U.S. assistance to the least developed countries; (4) assess infrastructure needs; (5) study whether additional resources are needed for tangible results; (6) compare the effectiveness of increased and open trade with development assistance; (7) analyze how political pressures affect the assistance decision making process and how assistance decisions can involve more people of the recipient countries; (8) recommend standards for graduating recipient countries from U.S. assistance; (9) analyze whether assistance should be used to achieve foreign policy objectives; and (10) analyze how to evaluate the performance of the U.S. assistance programs, including in democratization efforts.

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