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SJRES 34 104th Congress Senate

Vietnam POW/MIA Full Disclosure Act of 1995

Official title: A joint resolution prohibiting funds for diplomatic relations and most favored nation trading status with the Socialist Republic of Vietnam unless the Presiden… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A joint resolution prohibiting funds for diplomatic relations and most favored nation trading status with the Socialist Republic of Vietnam unless the President certifies to Congress that Vietnamese officials are being fully cooperative and forthcoming with efforts to account for the 2,205 Americans still missing and otherwise unaccounted for from the Vietnam War, as determined on the basis of all information available to the United States Government, and for other purposes.

Introduced: May 18, 1995 See on congress.gov
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May 18, 1995
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
May 18, 1995
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6928-6930)
May 18, 1995
Introduced in Senate
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 Latest action May 18, 1995

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Vietnam POW/MIA Full Disclosure Act of 1995 - Prohibits the usage of Federal funds to establish most-favored-nation trading status or to establish or maintain diplomatic relations with the Socialist Republic of Vietnam unless the President: (1) provides a listing of the Americans unaccounted for from the Vietnam War about whom Vietnam is most likely to be able to provide remains or additional information; (2) certifies that Vietnam is cooperating fully with regard to recovery and repatriation of American remains, resolution of discrepancies, live-sightings and field activities, implementation of trilateral investigations with the Lao, and provision of documents on POW/MIAs; and (3) certifies that Vietnam is being fully forthcoming in providing access to Central Committee-level records pertaining to Americans captured or held during the war in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.

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Grassley, Chuck
Iowa · May 18, 1995
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). S.J. Res. 34: Vietnam POW/MIA Full Disclosure Act of 1995. 104th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/104-SJRES-34/
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"S.J. Res. 34: Vietnam POW/MIA Full Disclosure Act of 1995." 104th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/104-SJRES-34/.
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S.J. Res. 34, 104th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/104-SJRES-34/.
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