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Senator Catherine Cortez-Masto (D-NV) was the 67th Senate co-sponsor. Following a unanimous vote for passage by the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, on the evening of 15 December 2021, the full U.S. Senate passed S. 1404, the Ghost Army Congressional Gold Medal Act. On 19 January 2022, the House of Representatives also ...
Also called the Dick Act, for sponsor Charles W. F. Dick, The 1903 law updated the Militia Act of 1792, though it left unresolved the key question of how to compel service of the militia outside the borders of the United States, which did not fall under the Constitutionally permitted uses of the militia "to execute the laws of the Union ...
A status of forces agreement (SOFA) is an agreement between a host country and a foreign nation stationing military forces in that country. SOFAs are often included, along with other types of military agreements, as part of a comprehensive security arrangement. A SOFA does not constitute a security arrangement; it establishes the rights and ...
Scowl. American punk band Scowl pulled out of SXSW on March 8. “We came to this decision in protest of the U.S. Army’s sponsorship of SXSW.As well as the involvement of RTX (formerly Raytheon ...
The State Partnership Program (SPP) is a joint program of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) and the individual states, territories, and District of Columbia. The program and the concept originated in 1993 as a simplified form of the previously established (1992) Joint Contact Team Program (JCTP). The JCTP aimed at assisting former ...
The G.I. Bill, formally known as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was a law that provided a range of benefits for some of the returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s). The original G.I. Bill expired in 1956, but the term "G.I. Bill" is still used to refer to programs created to assist American military veterans.
t. e. The United States has at various times in recent history provided support to terrorist and paramilitary organizations around the world. It has also provided assistance to numerous authoritarian regimes that have used state terrorism as a tool of repression. [1][2] American support for terrorists has been prominent in Latin America and the ...
The Mutual Defense Assistance Act was a United States Act of Congress signed by President Harry S. Truman on 6 October 1949. [1][2] For U.S. foreign policy, it was the first U.S. military foreign aid legislation of the Cold War era, and initially to Europe. [3] The Act followed Truman's signing of the Economic Cooperation Act (the Marshall Plan ...