FOREIGN INVESTMENTS

Bills and resolutions

Employment: provide for work authorization for nonimmigrant spouses of treaty traders and treaty investors (see S. 1890), S13944 [20DE] (see H.R. 2277), H3464 [21JN]

Financial institutions: amend banking laws relative to offshore activities, investments, and certain bank affiliations (see H.R. 2273), H3464 [21JN]

Insurance: require foreign insurance companies to disclose dealings with Holocaust victims, submit requests on claims by such individuals, and prohibit business dealings with companies failing to comply with requests (see H.R. 3408), H8948 [5DE]

Taxation: prevent companies from reinsuring income in Bermuda or other tax havens to avoid paying U.S. income tax (see H.R. 1755), H2021 [8MY]

———treatment of certain transfers of intangible property for foreign tax credit limitation purposes (see S. 1863), S13943 [20DE] (see H.R. 1515), H1498 [4AP]

———treatment of foreign investments through U.S. regulated investment companies (see H.R. 1267), H1294 [28MR]

Telecommunications: strengthen limitation on transfer of telecommunications licenses to foreign companies with government ownership (see S. 1668), S11612 [8NO] (see H.R. 3268), H7959 [8NO]

Remarks in House

Bureau of Public Debt: report on public debt relative to foreign ownership and detailed cost data, H4559 [25JY]

Employment: provide for work authorization for nonimmigrant spouses of treaty traders and treaty investors (H.R. 2277), H5357 [5SE], E1595 [6SE]

Financial institutions: amend banking laws relative to offshore activities, investments, and certain bank affiliations (H.R. 2273), E1396 [23JY], E1554 [3AU]

Foreign policy: authorize trade and investment policy relative to sub-Saharan Africa, H8289, H8291, H8294, H8298 [16NO]

Mexico: prohibition on foreign investment in energy production, H5364 [5SE]

Taxation: prevent companies from reinsuring income in Bermuda or other tax havens to avoid paying U.S. income tax (H.R. 1755), E755 [8MY]

———treatment of certain transfers of intangible property for foreign tax credit limitation purposes (H.R. 1515), E568 [5AP]

———treatment of foreign investments through U.S. regulated investment companies (H.R. 1267), E468 [28MR]

Telecommunications: strengthen limitation on transfer of telecommunications licenses to foreign companies with government ownership (H.R. 3268), E2088 [15NO]

Remarks in Senate

Employment: provide for work authorization for nonimmigrant spouses of treaty traders and treaty investors (H.R. 2277), S14063 [20DE]

———provide for work authorization for nonimmigrant spouses of treaty traders and treaty investors (S. 1890), S13980 [20DE]

Taxation: treatment of certain transfers of intangible property for foreign tax credit limitation purposes (S. 1863), S13945 [20DE]

Telecommunications: strengthen limitation on transfer of telecommunications licenses to foreign companies with government ownership (S. 1668), S11625 [8NO]

Reports filed

Nonimmigrant Spouses of Treaty Traders and Treaty Investors Work Authorization: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (H.R. 2277), S13145 [13DE]

Work Authorization for Nonimmigrant Spouses of Treaty Traders and Treaty Investors: Committee on the Judiciary (House) (H.R. 2277) (H. Rept. 107-187), H5332 [2AU]

Texts of

H.R. 2277, provide for work authorization for nonimmigrant spouses of treaty traders and treaty investors, H5357 [5SE]

S. 1863, tax treatment of certain transfers of intangible property for foreign tax credit limitation purposes, S13946 [20DE]