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      "title": "Foreign Aid Authorization: The Technical Assistance, Trade Promotion, and Anti-Corruption Act of 2000",
      "summary": "For one of the few times during the past 15 years, legislation was reported in the Senate\nauthorizing\nbroad portions of U.S. foreign assistance programs. In the absence of foreign aid authorizations,\nCongress has overseen and funded the program through annual Foreign Operations appropriations\nbills.  S. 2382 , the Technical Assistance, Trade Promotion, and Anti-Corruption Act of\n2000, as reported by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 7, selectively authorizes a\nrange of foreign aid activities, updates permanent foreign assistance laws, expands several aid\ninitiatives such as those to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, launches new initiatives,\nand repeals obsolete legislation.  S. 2382  incorporates a number of provisions previously\napproved by the Senate or some that have been enacted annually within appropriation bills, but never\nin permanent statute. Although  S. 2382  is not a comprehensive foreign assistance\nauthorization bill addressing each aid program, it represents the first broad foreign aid measure\nreported by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee since 1995, and would be the first of this type\nof legislation debated by the full Senate in a decade.\n   S. 2382  is selective in its approach. It authorizes amounts for HIV/AIDS,\ntuberculosis, and microenterprise programs for FY2001, but does not set funding ceilings for overall\ndevelopment assistance spending out of which these three programs will be drawn. It provides no\nauthorizations for several other major economic aid accounts.  S. 2382  provides a more\ncomprehensive authorization for military assistance than for other foreign aid activities. It establishes\nfunding levels for both Foreign Military Financing and International Military Education and Training\nactivities and for several nonproliferation programs, earmarking amounts for selected countries, and\nupdating various security assistance authorities.  S. 2382  further incorporates a number\nof aid and foreign policy initiatives approved previously by the Senate, including the Trade Sanctions\nReform and Export Enhancement Act, the Sudan Peace Act, and the Serbia Democratization Act. \nThe bill would also enact into permanent law a number of provisions approved each year in Foreign\nOperations Appropriation bills.  S. 2382  addresses about one-third of the President's\nproposed $15.1 billion foreign assistance budget for FY2001. Funding for each program included in\n S. 2382  is authorized at or above levels requested by the Administration. Within the\nsecurity aid accounts,  S. 2382  earmarks specific amounts for certain high priority\nrecipients, including Israel, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, and new NATO members.\n  Some major issues addressed in  S. 2382  are: sanctions policy reforms for\nagriculture and medicine, population aid, Sudan, HIV/AIDS initiatives, tuberculosis control efforts;\nbiotechnology in agriculture, debt relief for the world's poorest nations, World Bank and IMF\noperations, Serbia sanctions and democratization aid, microenterprise assistance, nonproliferation and\nexport control aid, and assistance to Israel. The bill also addresses many other topics, not covered\nin this report.\n  While further Senate action on  S. 2382  has stalled, Congress has considered, and\nin a few cases enacted as separate bills, several of the major issues initially incorporated in\n S. 2382 .",
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