§ 4501. Findings and declarations

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1983

   Soviet-Eastern European Research and Training Act of 1983

   Pub. L. 98–164 title VIII § 802 · 97 Stat. 1017

   Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 4501

   Pub. L. 98–164, title VIII, § 802, Nov. 22, 1983, 97 Stat. 1047

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 98–164, title VIII, § 802, Nov. 22, 1983, 97 Stat. 1047

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 802. findings and declarations The Congress finds and declares that— (1) factual knowledge, independently verified, about the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries is of the utmost importance for the national security of the United States, for the furtherance of our national interests in the conduct of foreign relations, and for the prudent management of our domestic affairs; (2) the development and maintenance of knowledge about the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries depends upon the national capability for advanced research by highly trained and experienced specialists, available for service in and out of Government; (3) certain essential functions are necessary to ensure the existence of that knowledge and the capability to sustain it, including— (A) graduate training; (B) advanced research; (C) public dissemination of research data, methods, and findings; (D) contact and collaboration among Government and private specialists; and (E) firsthand experience of the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries by American specialists, including on site conduct of advanced training and research to the extent practicable; and (4) it is in the national interest for the United States Government to provide a stable source of financial support for the functions described in this section and to supplement the financial support for those functions which is currently being furnished by Federal, State, local, regional, and private agencies, organizations, and individuals, and thereby to stabilize the conduct of these functions on a national scale, consistently, and on a long range unclassified basis.

2. 1993

   Act For Reform In Emerging New Democracies and Support and Help for Improved Partnership with Russia, Ukraine, and Other New Independent States

   Pub. L. 103–199 title III § 302(3) · 107 Stat. 2317

   Substituted · 22 U.S.C. § 4501(1); 22 U.S.C. § 4501(2); 22 U.S.C. § 4501(3)(E)

   Pub. L. 103–199 substituted “countries of Eastern Europe and the independent states of the former Soviet Union” for “Soviet Union and Eastern European countries”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pars. (1), (2), (3)(E). Pub. L. 103–199 substituted “countries of Eastern Europe and the independent states of the former Soviet Union” for “Soviet Union and Eastern European countries”.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (3) 22 USC 4501. in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3)(E) of section 802, by striking “Soviet Union and Eastern European countries” and inserting “countries of Eastern Europe and the independent states of the former Soviet Union”;

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision