Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 63 — Support for East European Democracy (seed)
§ 5463. Encouraging voluntary assistance for Poland and Hungary
Statutory text
Encouraging private contributions
It is the sense of the Congress that the President should take all possible steps to encourage across the Nation a massive outpouring of private contributions of money and nonperishable foods, to be collected by civic, religious, school, and youth organizations, for assistance to Poland and to refugees from Romania who are in Hungary.
Transportation to Poland of private contributions
In further 1 of subsection (a), the President—
using all available authorities, including section 402 of title 10 (relating to transportation of humanitarian relief supplies), should use resources of the Department of Defense (including the National Guard) to transport nonfinancial private contributions to Poland,2
should request additional authorities as needed for the use of those resources for that purpose; and
should encourage maximum participation by such recognized private and voluntary organizations as the Polish-American Congress in the transportation of nonfinancial private contributions to Poland.
Footnotes
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.
Support for East European Democracy (SEED) Act of 1989
Pub. L. 101–179 title VI § 603 · 103 Stat. 1298
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 5463
(Pub. L. 101–179, title VI, § 603, Nov. 28, 1989, 103 Stat. 1319.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 101–179, title VI, § 603, Nov. 28, 1989, 103 Stat. 1319.)
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