[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5267 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5267

   To modify the waiver authority of the President regarding foreign 
           assistance restrictions with respect to Pakistan.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 26, 2002

 Mr. Ackerman introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                  Committee on International Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
   To modify the waiver authority of the President regarding foreign 
           assistance restrictions with respect to Pakistan.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. MODIFICATION OF WAIVER AUTHORITY.

    Section (1)(b) of the Act entitled ``An Act to authorize the 
President to exercise waivers of foreign assistance restrictions with 
respect to Pakistan through September 30, 2003, and for other 
purposes'', approved October 27, 2001 (Public Law 107-57), is amended 
to read as follows:
            ``(1) Waiver.--The President is authorized to waive, with 
        respect to Pakistan, any provision of the foreign operations, 
        export financing, and related programs appropriations Act for 
        fiscal year 2003 that prohibits direct assistance to a country 
        whose duly elected head of government was deposed by decree or 
        military coup, if the President determines and certifies to the 
        appropriate congressional committees that--
                    ``(A) the Government of Pakistan has conducted 
                elections for a national assembly and that the 
                elections were free and fair;
                    ``(B) the Government of Pakistan has complied with 
                its commitments to the United States to halt, 
                permanently and verifiably, cross-border terrorism into 
                India;
                    ``(C) such waiver is important to United States 
                efforts to respond to, deter, or prevent acts of 
                international terrorism; and
                    ``(D) such wavier would facilitate the transition 
                to democratic rule in Pakistan.''.
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