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handle is hein.crs/govenza0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Congressional ____ *.Research Service Fast Track Senate Procedures for Considering Human Rights and Security Assistance Resolutions January 12, 2024 Section 502B(c)(1) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. §2304(c)), as amended, establishes a parliamentary mechanism whereby the House or Senate can formally request a statement from the Secretary of State regarding human rights in a specific nation. After receiving that statement, Congress may then consider separate legislation terminating, restricting, or continuing security assistance to that nation. A simple resolution requesting such a statement, and a subsequent joint resolution regulating security assistance to the nation in question, are, under the Act, both subject to consideration in the Senate under fast track parliamentary procedures that limit debate, bar amendment, and preclude a filibuster of the legislation. The Act does not establish any special parliamentary procedures governing House consideration of either type of resolution. Under 22 U.S.C. @2304(c), upon the request of either the House Foreign Affairs or Senate Foreign Relations Committees, or by simple resolution (H.Res. or S.Res.) passed by the House or Senate, a formal request for information on human rights in a specific country can be made of the Department of State. The Secretary of State, with the assistance of the Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, is required to provide a statement to both chamber's foreign affairs committees within 30 days of receiving the request. The Act states that any such statement shall include: all available information about the observance of, and respect for, human rights and fundamental freedom in that country, and a detailed description of practices by the recipient government with respect thereto; the steps the United States has taken to (1) promote respect for and observance of human rights in that country, and (2) discourage any practices which are inimical to internationally recognized human rights, and publicly or privately call attention to, and disassociate the United States and any security assistance provided for such country from, such practices; whether, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, notwithstanding any such practices, (1) extraordinary circumstances exist which necessitate a continuation of security assistance for such Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov IN12300 CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress

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