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HELP Commission Act

Introduced: October 8, 2003 See on congress.gov
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Oct 8, 2003
Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
Oct 8, 2003
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1998-1999)
Oct 8, 2003
Introduced in House
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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.

What's happening now October 8, 2003

Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 3286: HELP Commission Act. 108th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/108-HR-3286/
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