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Sens. Cruz, Risch, Colleagues Introduce Bill to Expand Prohibitions on Use of Foreign Assistance Funding for Abortions
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relation Committee, Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Todd Young (R-Ind.), and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) this week introduced the American Values Act, legislation to permanently enact and expand existing prohibitions on the use of U.S. foreign assistance to pay for the performance or promotion of abortion services overseas.
Upon introduction, Sen. Cruz said: In light of the Biden administration s decision to reverse the Mexico City Policy, which means that American taxpayer dollars will now fund organizations overseas that encourage abortion, this bill would expand and permanently prohibit American foreign aid to be used to fund abortions. This bill is especially timely, as the Chinese Communist Party is forcing a
February 04, 2021 MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES This memorandum reaffirms and supplements the principles established in the Presidential Memorandum of December 6, 2011 (International Initiatives to Advance the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Persons). That memorandum, for the first time, directed executive departments and agencies (agencies) engaged abroad to ensure that United States diplomacy and foreign assistance promote and protect the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons everywhere. This memorandum builds upon that historic legacy and updates the 2011 memorandum. All human beings should be treated with respect and dignity and should be able to live without fear no matter who they are or whom they love. Around the globe, including here at home, brave lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI+) activists are fighting for equal protection under the law, freedom fr
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Senators Relaunch Bid To End The Cuba Trade Embargo
Law360 (February 5, 2021, 10:47 PM EST) The chair of the Senate Finance Committee introduced a bill Friday that aims to normalize the U.S. trade relationship with Cuba in one shot, repealing the 1961 trade embargo and protecting areas targeted by Trump administration regulations.
The 12-page bill, titled the United States-Cuba Trade Act of 2021, was authored by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., with backing from three Democratic co-sponsors. If passed, the bill would delete Section 620(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, and press reset on presidential actions addressing Cuba under the Trading With the Enemy Act, the legislation underpinning the Cuban Assets Control Regulations. Those regulations.
On February 3, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Federal Republic of Germany v. Philipp, No. 19–351, holding that the expropriation exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.