Executive orders, proclamations, memoranda, determinations, and other instruments — filter by administration, type, and theme.
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President Clinton waived congressionally mandated sanctions against India that would have otherwise blocked U.S. assistance to four specific programs: the South Asia Regional Initiative/Energy, the Presidential Initiative on Internet for Economic Development, the Financial Institution Reform and Expansion program, and the United States Educational Foundation in India Environmental Exchange. The waiver was issued under authority granted by the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2000.
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This executive order establishes a 15-member White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy within the Department of Health and Human Services. The Commission is tasked with providing recommendations to the President on how public policy can maximize benefits of complementary and alternative medicine through education, research, information dissemination, and access. The Commission will automatically terminate two years from the signing date unless extended by the President.
This memorandum delegates presidential authority under a 1999 appropriations act to the Secretary of Defense for transmitting reports to Congress on U.S.-Russia cooperative projects, requiring concurrence from the Secretary of State and OMB clearance before submission. The authority may be redelegated no lower than the Under Secretary level.
President Clinton authorized a drawdown of up to $37.6 million in Defense Department articles and services to provide emergency disaster assistance to Southern Africa, specifically Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Botswana. The determination was made under Section 506(a)(2) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.