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106th Congress
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Food and Medicine for the World Act of 1999
Introduced: February 11, 1999
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Became law
Feb 11, 1999
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Feb 11, 1999
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1448-1449)
Feb 11, 1999
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Food and Medicine for the World Act of 1999 - Prohibits, with specified exceptions, the President from imposing a new unilateral agricultural sanction, or a new unilateral sanction with respect to medicine, medical supplies, or medical equipment, against a foreign country, unless: (1) not less than 60 days before the sanction is proposed to be imposed, the President makes a specified report to Congress; and (2) Congress enacts a joint resolution approving the report.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1