International Health: Supplemental Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Eighty-sixth Congress, Second Session, on Joint Resolutions to Establish a National Institute for International Health and Medical Research (with Particular Reference to Availability of Foreign Currencies for Use in Connection with International Health Research). February 9, 1960U.S. Government Printing Office, 1960 - 63 páginas Considers establishment of an international health research program, to be financed primarily by U.S. counterpart funds. |
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abroad activities amounts appropriation acts Austria authorizations to spend available for U.S. balances budget BURNETT CAMPBELL committee Commodity Credit Corporation common defense Congress counterpart funds country-use Development Loan Fund dollar appropriations dollar equivalents economic development estimate excess currencies expend foreign currency expenditures financed fiscal year 1960 foreign countries foreign currencies received foreign currency programs grams HARVEY health research included international agreements June 30 KEVAN Law 480 currencies lend-lease loans and grants medical research ments method million Mutual Security Act Mutual security program nonexcess currencies normal operations overseas Pakistan proposed Public Law 480 purchasing country purposes receipts regular appropriation rencies repayments requirements ROBERTS ROGERS of Florida sale of surplus sales proceeds section 104 special foreign currency subcommittee surplus agricultural commodities surplus commodities TILLER tions U.S. agency programs U.S. dollars U.S. Government U.S. Information Agency U.S. programs United Arab Republic World Health Organization Yugoslavia
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Página 60 - II), not less than $175,000,000 shall be used to finance the export and sale for foreign currencies of surplus agricultural commodities or products thereof produced in the United States, in addition to surplus agricultural commodities or products transferred pursuant to the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, and in accordance with the standards as to pricing...
Página 9 - Act of 1967; (3) collect, collate, translate, abstract, and disseminate scientific and technological information and conduct research and support scientific activities overseas including programs and projects of scientific cooperation between the United States and other countries such as coordinated research against diseases common to all of mankind or unique to individual regions of the globe...
Página 37 - ... various governmental activities. Under an intergovernmental defense agreement, Japan has agreed to bear a part of the cost of our forces defending that country by contributing yen to assist in meeting some local costs. Sales of US Government surplus property and settlement of World War II lend-lease debts for foreign currencies are authorized under several laws and international agreements. Under the Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (Public Law 402), the...
Página 63 - Provided further, That the dollar value of the unexpended balances, as of June 30, 1960, of allocations of foreign currencies heretofore made available to the (name of bureau or agency) for the foregoing purposes of such section 104 ( ) is appro priated as of that date and shall be merged with this appropriation.
Página 34 - Need for foreign currencies. — The US Government carries on extensive activities abroad, involving almost every country in the world. In the normal course of these worldwide operations, it has need for and it acquires large amounts of currencies of many countries. Some of these currencies are acquired through Government agencies' activities ; others must be purchased. Recent estimates indicate that Government agencies will require about $2.3 billion of foreign currencies in 1961 to perform their...
Página 34 - Government in 1961 (as reported in the budget of the US Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1963, p.
Página 31 - V.8. fellows studying in foreign laboratories. — Administrative and review procedures are the same for applicants proposing to study abroad as for those trainIng in domestic institutions. Additional information, however, is required of applicants desiring to train in foreign laboratories. Such additional factors as the qualifications of the fellow to profit by study in a foreign country, and the -special techniques he would learn that could not be readily learned in a laboratory in the United States,...
Página 42 - US-owned currencies may be used for program purposes carried on by an appropriation if such use is charged to the appropriation. Under this provision, expenditure of foreign currencies has been controlled by including in the regular dollar appropriations of Federal agencies sums sufficient for the purchase of foreign currencies needed for their programs. Major exceptions to section 1415 have been made by the Congress in recent years.
Página 1 - HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND SAFETY OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE, Washington, DC The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10 am, in room 1334, New House Office Building, Hon.
Página 61 - ... such special and particular effort to include the setting aside of such amounts from sale proceeds and loan repayments under this title, not in excess of $1,000,000 a year in any one country for a period of not more than five years in advance, as may be determined by the Secretary of State to be required for the purposes of this subsection...