HR 755 · 107th Congress 2001–2003, ended

Global Democracy Promotion Act of 2001

Introduced Feb 27, 2001 Originated House Sponsor Nita M. Lowey D-NY

Latest action · Feb 27, 2001 Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedFeb 27, 2001
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Global Democracy Promotion Act of 2001 - Declares that, in eligibility determinations for certain assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, foreign nongovernmental organizations shall not be: (1) ineligible for such assistance solely on the basis of health or medical services (including counseling and referral services) provided by them with non-U.S. Government funds if such services do not violate the laws of the country in which they are being provided, and would not violate U.S. Federal law if provided in the United States; and (2) subject to requirements relating to the use of non-U.S. Government funds for advocacy and lobbying activities other than those that apply to U.S. nongovernmental organizations receiving such assistance.

Cosponsors 131

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 27, 2001 to Mar 20, 2002; 72 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-WA	Adam Smith	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-CA	Barbara Lee	Original	Feb 27, 2001
R-NY	Benjamin A. Gilman	Original	Feb 27, 2001
I-VT	Bernard Sanders	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-MA	Bill Delahunt	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-MI	Carolyn C. Kilpatrick	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-NY	Carolyn McCarthy	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-FL	Carrie P. Meek	Original	Feb 27, 2001
R-CT	Christopher Shays	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-TX	Ciro D. Rodriguez	Original	Feb 27, 2001
R-MD	Constance A. Morella	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-MI	David E. Bonior	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-NC	David E. Price	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-AL	Earl F. Hilliard	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-NY	Edolphus Towns	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-CA	Fortney Pete Stark	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-NY	Gary L. Ackerman	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-CA	George Miller	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-CA	Henry A. Waxman	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-CA	Howard L. Berman	Original	Feb 27, 2001
R-PA	James C. Greenwood	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-MA	James P. McGovern	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-VA	James P. Moran	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-CA	Jane Harman	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-WA	Jim McDermott	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-MI	John Conyers, Jr.	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-ME	John Elias Baldacci	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-MA	John F. Tierney	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-MA	John W. Olver	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-NY	Jose E. Serrano	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-NY	Joseph Crowley	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-PA	Joseph M. Hoeffel	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-FL	Karen L. Thurman	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-MO	Karen McCarthy	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-TX	Ken Bentsen	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-CA	Lynn C. Woolsey	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-MI	Lynn N. Rivers	Original	Feb 27, 2001
R-IL	Mark Kirk	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-TX	Martin Frost	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-MA	Martin T. Meehan	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-NY	Maurice D. Hinchey	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-CA	Michael M. Honda	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-CA	Mike Thompson	Original	Feb 27, 2001
R-CT	Nancy L. Johnson	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-CA	Nancy Pelosi	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-HI	Neil Abercrombie	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-HI	Patsy T. Mink	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-FL	Peter Deutsch	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-NJ	Robert Menendez	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-FL	Robert Wexler	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-IL	Rod R. Blagojevich	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-NJ	Rush Holt	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-CA	Sam Farr	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-MI	Sander M. Levin	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-OH	Sherrod Brown	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-OH	Stephanie Tubbs Jones	Original	Feb 27, 2001
R-CA	Stephen Horn	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-ME	Thomas H. Allen	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-OH	Tom Sawyer	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren	Original	Feb 27, 2001
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		Feb 28, 2001
D-WA	Rick Larsen		Feb 28, 2001
D-CA	Robert T. Matsui		Feb 28, 2001
D-NJ	Frank Pallone, Jr.		Mar 1, 2001
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks		Mar 1, 2001
D-NJ	Robert E. Andrews		Mar 1, 2001
D-LA	William J. Jefferson		Mar 1, 2001
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay		Mar 1, 2001
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		Mar 7, 2001
D-MA	Barney Frank		Mar 7, 2001
D-TX	Charles A. Gonzalez		Mar 7, 2001
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne		Mar 7, 2001
D-CA	Ellen O. Tauscher		Mar 7, 2001
R-CT	Rob Simmons		Mar 7, 2001
D-AZ	Ed Pastor		Mar 8, 2001
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel		Mar 8, 2001
D-CA	Susan A. Davis		Mar 13, 2001
D-CA	Calvin M. Dooley		Mar 21, 2001
D-FL	Corrine Brown		Mar 21, 2001
D-GA	Cynthia A. McKinney		Mar 21, 2001
D-KS	Dennis Moore		Mar 21, 2001
D-CA	Hilda L. Solis		Mar 21, 2001
D-WA	Jay Inslee		Mar 21, 2001
D-GA	John Lewis		Mar 21, 2001
D-WA	Norman D. Dicks		Mar 21, 2001
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		Mar 21, 2001
R-NY	Sue W. Kelly		Mar 21, 2001
D-CA	Bob Filner		Mar 22, 2001
D-IN	Julia Carson		Mar 22, 2001
D-WI	Ron Kind		Mar 22, 2001
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel		Mar 27, 2001
D-NJ	Steven R. Rothman		Mar 27, 2001
D-WI	Tammy Baldwin		Mar 27, 2001
D-MN	Bill Luther		Apr 4, 2001
D-MA	Edward J. Markey		Apr 4, 2001
D-TX	Gene Green		Apr 4, 2001
D-CA	Lois Capps		Apr 4, 2001
D-WI	Thomas M. Barrett		Apr 4, 2001
D-CO	Diana DeGette		Apr 24, 2001
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Apr 24, 2001
D-MN	Martin Olav Sabo		Apr 24, 2001
D-VA	Rick Boucher		Apr 24, 2001
D-CA	Xavier Becerra		Apr 24, 2001
D-MD	Albert Russell Wynn		May 1, 2001
R-IL	Judy Biggert		May 1, 2001
D-NV	Shelley Berkley		May 1, 2001
D-NY	Steve Israel		May 1, 2001
D-CA	Tom Lantos		May 1, 2001
D-MD	Benjamin L. Cardin		May 3, 2001
D-MN	Betty McCollum		May 3, 2001
D-CA	Juanita Millender-McDonald		May 3, 2001
D-CA	Brad Sherman		May 8, 2001
D-IL	Danny K. Davis		May 8, 2001
D-OR	Darlene Hooley		May 8, 2001
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		May 8, 2001
D-IL	Lane Evans		May 8, 2001
D-CA	Joe Baca		May 16, 2001
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		Mar 20, 2002
D-WA	Brian Baird		Mar 20, 2002

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Foreign Affairs Committee	Referred Feb 27, 2001

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

Feb 27, 2001Introduced in House
Feb 27, 2001Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Printed hearings 1

Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.

Number	Hearing	Committee	Held
S. Hrg. 107-315	Clean Air Act Oversight Issues564 pages	Environment and Public Works Committee	Mar 21, 2001–Aug 1, 2001

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 367	Global Democracy Promotion Act of 2001	Identical bill	Aug 1, 2001

Titles 4

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To prohibit the application of certain restrictive eligibility requirements to foreign nongovernmental organizations with respect to the provision of assistance under part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
Short Titles as Introduced: Global Democracy Promotion Act of 2001
Popular Titles: Mexico City Policy bill; Abortion Gag Order bill

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: International Affairs.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Feb 27, 2001Introduced in House

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