Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 104 — Venezuela Assistance
§ 9701. Findings; sense of Congress in support of the Interim President of Venezuela
Statutory text
Findings
Congress makes the following findings:
Venezuela’s electoral event on was characterized by widespread fraud and did not comply with international standards for a free, fair, and transparent electoral process.
Given the fraudulent nature of Venezuela’s electoral event, Nicolás Maduro’s tenure as President of Venezuela ended on .
The National Assembly of Venezuela approved a resolution on that terminated Nicolás Maduro’s authority as the President of Venezuela.
On , the President of the National Assembly of Venezuela was sworn in as the Interim President of Venezuela.
Sense of Congress
It is the sense of Congress—
to support the decisions by the United States Government, more than 50 governments around the world, the Organization of American States, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the European Parliament to recognize National Assembly President Juan Guaidó as the Interim President of Venezuela;
to encourage the Interim President of Venezuela to advance efforts to hold democratic presidential elections in the shortest possible period; and
that the Organization of American States, with support from the United States Government and partner governments, should provide diplomatic, technical, and financial support for a new presidential election in Venezuela that complies with international standards for a free, fair, and transparent electoral process.
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.
Department of Labor Appropriations Act, 2020
Pub. L. 116–94 div. J title I § 111 · 133 Stat. 2534
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 9701
(Pub. L. 116–94, div. J, title I, § 111, Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 3030.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 116–94, div. J, title I, § 111, Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 3030.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 111. None of the funds in this Act shall be used to enforce the definition of corresponding employment found in 20 CFR 655.5 or the three-fourths guarantee rule definition found in 20 CFR 655.20, or any references thereto. Further, for the purpose of regulating admission of temporary workers under the H–2B program, the definition of temporary need shall be that provided in 8 CFR 214.2(h)(6)(ii)(B).
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Short Title
Pub. L. 116–94, div. J, title I, § 101, , 133 Stat. 3030, provided that: “This title [enacting this chapter and amending provisions set out as a note under section 1701 of Title 50, War and National Defense] may be cited as the ‘Venezuela Emergency Relief, Democracy Assistance, and Development Act of 2019’ or the ‘VERDAD Act of 2019’.”