Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Appropriations Act of 1982
Public Law 97-121 · H.R. 4559 · 97th Congress · began in the House
Signed by Ronald Reagan (R) on Dec 29, 1981 · Economics and Public Finance
Sponsor: Rep. Clarence Long (D-MD-2)
Cosponsors: None
Passage votesYeaNay
- HouseRecorded vote: 217 yea, 201 nay217–201
- SenateRecorded vote: 55 yea, 34 nay55–34
Data notes
The final version of the law, as each chamber passed it. A chamber that passed it by voice vote or unanimous consent has no count. “Method not stated” means the record does not say how the chamber voted. Where the record has a member-by-member vote, the “Who voted for it” section shows who voted yea.
Summary
The Congressional Research Service’s plain-language summary of what the law does.
Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1982 - Title I: Multilateral Economic Assistance - Appropriates fiscal year 1982 funds to the President for the U.S. contributions to the: (1) Inter-American Development Bank; (2) International Bank for Reconstruction and Development; (3) International Finance Corporation; (4) International Development Association; (5) Asian Development Bank and the Asian Development Fund; and (6) African Development Fund. Specifies the maximum amount of callable capital stock to which the U.S. Governors of such Banks may subscribe. Limits the salary of the U.S. Directors of such banks. Appropriates a specified sum for international organizations and programs. Prohibits using such funds for the United Nations Fund for Science and Technology or the U.N. Decade for Women. Earmarks a specified amount for the U.N. Development Program. Limits the amount of such funds available for the U.N. Children's Fund and the U.N. Environment Program.
Title II: Bilateral Economic Assistance - Makes fiscal year 1982 appropriations to the Agency for International Development for development assistance programs relating to: (1) agriculture, rural development, and nutrition; (2) voluntary population planning; (3) health programs; (4) education and human resources development, with a specified amount earmarked for scholarships for South African students; (5) energy and selected development activities; (6) science and technology; (7) loan allocation, with specified repayment periods for loan recipients based on a country's per capita gross national product; (8) American schools and hospitals abroad; (9) international disaster assistance, with a specified amount earmarked for earthquake relief and reconstruction in southern Italy; (10) the Sahel development program, with a specified amount earmarked for the African Development Foundation; (11) the Economic Support Fund, with specified sums earmarked for Egypt, Israel, Sudan, Poland, Tunisia, Costa Rica, and Cyprus; (12) peacekeeping operations; (13) the operating expenses of the Agency for International Development, with a prohibition on using such funds to create a separate agency within the International Development Cooperation Agency without prior notification of Congress; (14) trade and development programs; (15) housing and credit guaranty programs; and (16) international narcotics control.
Appropriates a specified sum to the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund.
Prohibits using any of the funds appropriated for voluntary population planning programs for the World Health Organization's Special Program of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction.
Prohibits using any of the funds appropriated for the Economic Support Fund for the Special Retirements Fund.
Makes certain Polish currencies held by the United States available for use in Poland to serve U.S. interests.
Makes appropriations for fiscal year 1982 for the Inter-American Foundation and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), with limitations on OPIC's direct and guaranteed loans.
Appropriates fiscal year 1982 funds for the Peace Corps.
Appropriates fiscal year 1982 funds to the Department of State for migration and refugee assistance. Earmarks a specified amount of such funds for aid for refugees and displaced persons in Africa. Limits the amount of such funds available for the administrative expenses of the State Department's Office of Refugee Programs.
Title III: Military Assistance - Appropriates fiscal year 1982 funds to the President for: (1) military assistance; (2) international military education and training; (3) foreign military credit sales, with specified amounts earmarked for Egypt and Israel and with limitations on the amounts of direct and guaranteed loans.
Title IV: Export-Import Bank of the United States - Authorizes the Export-Import Bank to make expenditures without regard to fiscal year limitations, unless otherwise specified. Prohibits expenditures for nuclear exports to any country that has detonated a nuclear explosive after enactment of this Act. Specifies limitations on the amounts of direct and guaranteed loans and on administrative expenses.
Title V: General Provisions - Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for: (1) financing construction of any water or related land resource development project which has not met specified standards; (2) pensions for persons who have served in the armed forces of any recipient country; (3) procurement contracts which do not permit termination for U.S. convenience; (4) dues of any member of the United Nations; (5) the transfer of appropriated funds among international lending organizations; (6) financing nuclear exports for providing nuclear training assistance to foreign nationals; (7) assisting countries to violate human rights; (8) assistance to Mozambique (unless it would further U.S. foreign policy interests), Angola, Cambodia, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam, Syria, Libya, Iraq, or South Yemen; (9) obligation under an appropriation account to which they were not appropriated, without prior congressional approval; (10) unauthorized publicity purposes within the United States; (11) obligation beyond the current fiscal year, unless otherwise permitted; (12) assistance to countries which are more than one year in default on loan payments to the United States; (13) international financial institutions which do not make available to the U.S. representatives information concerning loans or documents; (14) any government which aids or abets international terrorism; (15) assisting the production of commodities for export, if such commodities will likely be in surplus on world markets and will cause substantial injury to U.S. producers; and (16) the obligation of specified funds for programs not justified or in excess of the amount justified, without prior congressional notification.
Limits the use of appropriated funds for: (1) obligation during the last month of availability; (2) official residence expenses, entertainment expenses, and representation allowances of the Agency for International Development; and (3) consulting services.
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. executive directors of specified international financial institutions to oppose assistance for the production of export commodities in surplus on World markets if such assistance will cause substantial injury to U.S. producers.
Prohibits using appropriated funds for lobbying for abortion.
Who voted for it
Every House member of the 97th Congress on the ideology compass. Highlighted: the 222 who voted yea on final passage. Faded: everyone else, including those who voted nay, did not vote, or had not yet taken office.
222 yea206 nay5 present or did not vote
Democrats who voted yea(127)
- Rep. Bill ClayD-MO-1
- Rep. Martin SaboD-MN-5
Rep. Tom HarkinD-IA-5- Rep. Parren MitchellD-MD-7
- Rep. George CrockettD-MI-13
- Rep. Mickey LelandD-TX-18
- Rep. Mervyn DymallyD-CA-31
- Rep. Louis StokesD-OH-21
- Rep. Phillip BurtonD-CA-6
Rep. Charlie RangelD-NY-19- Rep. William GrayD-PA-2
- Rep. Frederick RichmondD-NY-14
- Rep. Theodore WeissD-NY-20
- Rep. Harold FordD-TN-8
- Rep. John SeiberlingD-OH-14
- Rep. Don EdwardsD-CA-10
- Rep. Anthony BeilensonD-CA-23
- Rep. William FordD-MI-15
Rep. James OberstarD-MN-8- Rep. Cardiss CollinsD-IL-7
- Rep. William BrodheadD-MI-17
- Rep. David BoniorD-MI-12
- Rep. Julian DixonD-CA-28
- Rep. Victor FazioD-CA-4
- Rep. Harold WashingtonD-IL-1
- Rep. Jonathan BinghamD-NY-22
Rep. George MillerD-CA-7- Rep. Gus HawkinsD-CA-29
- Rep. Paul SimonD-IL-24
- Rep. Benjamin RosenthalD-NY-8
- Rep. William LehmanD-FL-13
- Rep. Toby MoffettD-CT-6
Rep. John DingellD-MI-16- Rep. Henry ReussD-WI-5
- Rep. James ScheuerD-NY-11
Rep. Daniel AkakaD-HI-2- Rep. Richard OttingerD-NY-24
- Rep. Robert MatsuiD-CA-3
- Rep. William CoyneD-PA-14
Rep. Henry WaxmanD-CA-24
Rep. Dale KildeeD-MI-7- Rep. Claude PepperD-FL-14
- Rep. Michael LowryD-WA-7
- Rep. James HowardD-NJ-3
- Rep. Sidney YatesD-IL-9
- Rep. George DanielsonD-CA-30
- Rep. John MoakleyD-MA-9
- Rep. Thomas DowneyD-NY-2
- Rep. Stephen SolarzD-NY-13
- Rep. Bruce VentoD-MN-4
Rep. Dave ObeyD-WI-7- Rep. Robert EdgarD-PA-7
- Rep. Joseph AddabboD-NY-7
Rep. Chuck SchumerD-NY-16- Rep. Norman MinetaD-CA-13
- Rep. Albert GoreD-TN-4
- Rep. Bernard DwyerD-NJ-15
Rep. Barbara MikulskiD-MD-3
Rep. Ed MarkeyD-MA-7- Rep. Robert MollohanD-WV-1
- Rep. Geraldine FerraroD-NY-9
Rep. Steny HoyerD-MD-5- Rep. Anthony CoelhoD-CA-15
- Rep. Martin FrostD-TX-24
- Rep. Charles PriceD-IL-23
- Rep. Thomas FoleyD-WA-5
- Rep. Dante FascellD-FL-15
- Rep. James WrightD-TX-12
- Rep. Morris UdallD-AZ-2
- Rep. Matthew McHughD-NY-27
- Rep. Joseph SmithD-PA-3
- Rep. Mario BiaggiD-NY-10
- Rep. Frank AnnunzioD-IL-11
- Rep. Nicholas MavroulesD-MA-6
- Rep. Howard WolpeD-MI-3
- Rep. James MattoxD-TX-5
- Rep. Adam BenjaminD-IN-1
- Rep. Dennis HertelD-MI-14
Rep. Ron WydenD-OR-3- Rep. Peter PeyserD-NY-23
- Rep. John FaryD-IL-5
- Rep. Joseph MinishD-NJ-11
- Rep. Gillis LongD-LA-8
Rep. John MurthaD-PA-12- Rep. William RatchfordD-CT-5
- Rep. James BlanchardD-MI-18
- Rep. Tom LantosD-CA-11
- Rep. Bill AlexanderD-AR-1
- Rep. Henry NowakD-NY-37
- Rep. Leo ZeferettiD-NY-15
- Rep. Lindy BoggsD-LA-2
- Rep. Clement ZablockiD-WI-4
- Rep. Leslie AspinD-WI-1
- Rep. Daniel RostenkowskiD-IL-8
Rep. Norm DicksD-WA-6- Rep. Robert RoeD-NJ-8
- Rep. Allan SwiftD-WA-2
- Rep. Don BonkerD-WA-3
- Rep. Donald PeaseD-OH-13
- Rep. Timothy WirthD-CO-2
- Rep. Edward BolandD-MA-2
- Rep. Jerry PattersonD-CA-38
- Rep. John LaFalceD-NY-36
- Rep. Sam GejdensonD-CT-2
- Rep. Stanley LundineD-NY-39
- Rep. Robert ShamanskyD-OH-12
- Rep. Michael SynarD-OK-2
- Rep. Cecil HeftelD-HI-1
- Rep. David BowenD-MS-2
- Rep. Michael BarnesD-MD-8
- Rep. Berkley BedellD-IA-6
- Rep. Clarence LongD-MD-2
- Rep. Tony HallD-OH-3
- Rep. Samuel StrattonD-NY-28
- Rep. Gus YatronD-PA-6
- Rep. Daniel MicaD-FL-11
- Rep. Thomas LukenD-OH-2
- Rep. Romano MazzoliD-KY-3
- Rep. Don FuquaD-FL-2
- Rep. Charles WilsonD-TX-2
- Rep. Daniel GlickmanD-KS-4
Rep. Bill NelsonD-FL-9- Rep. Philip SharpD-IN-10
- Rep. Lee HamiltonD-IN-9
- Rep. Jake PickleD-TX-10
- Rep. John BreauxD-LA-7
- Rep. Andy IrelandD-FL-8
Republicans who voted yea(94)
- Rep. Harold HollenbeckR-NJ-9
- Rep. Claudine SchneiderR-RI-2
- Rep. Bill GreenR-NY-18
- Rep. Matthew RinaldoR-NJ-12
- Rep. Jim JeffordsR-VT
- Rep. Lawrence DeNardisR-CT-3
- Rep. Margaret HecklerR-MA-10
- Rep. Silvio ConteR-MA-1
- Rep. Marc MarksR-PA-24
- Rep. Charles DoughertyR-PA-4
- Rep. Stewart McKinneyR-CT-4
- Rep. Benjamin GilmanR-NY-26
- Rep. Frank HortonR-NY-34
- Rep. Jim LeachR-IA-1
- Rep. Hamilton FishR-NY-25
Rep. Chris SmithR-NJ-4- Rep. Carl PursellR-MI-2
- Rep. Joel PritchardR-WA-1
- Rep. Thomas RailsbackR-IL-19
- Rep. Donald MitchellR-NY-31
Rep. Olympia SnoweR-ME-2- Rep. George O’BrienR-IL-17
- Rep. William ClingerR-PA-23
- Rep. Arlen ErdahlR-MN-1
- Rep. Harold SawyerR-MI-5
- Rep. Millicent FenwickR-NJ-5
- Rep. Donald ClausenR-CA-2
- Rep. Jack EdwardsR-AL-1
- Rep. Thomas EvansR-DE
- Rep. Norman LentR-NY-4
- Rep. Guy MolinariR-NY-17
- Rep. Paul FindleyR-IL-20
Rep. Ralph RegulaR-OH-16- Rep. Marge RoukemaR-NJ-7
Rep. Frank WolfR-VA-10- Rep. Thomas TaukeR-IA-2
- Rep. John PorterR-IL-10
- Rep. John RhodesR-AZ-1
- Rep. John StantonR-OH-11
- Rep. Chalmers WylieR-OH-15
- Rep. Guy Vander JagtR-MI-9
- Rep. Elwood HillisR-IN-5
- Rep. Sidney MorrisonR-WA-4
- Rep. James CourterR-NJ-13
- Rep. Raymond McGrathR-NY-5
- Rep. James CoyneR-PA-8
- Rep. Doug BereuterR-NE-1
- Rep. Bobbi FiedlerR-CA-21
- Rep. Robert CoughlinR-PA-13
- Rep. William CarneyR-NY-1
- Rep. Clarence BrownR-OH-7
- Rep. Edward WeberR-OH-9
- Rep. George WortleyR-NY-32
- Rep. Henry HydeR-IL-6
- Rep. Robert McCloryR-IL-13
- Rep. Edward MadiganR-IL-21
- Rep. Larry WinnR-KS-3
- Rep. Newton GingrichR-GA-6
- Rep. William BroomfieldR-MI-19
- Rep. Carroll CampbellR-SC-4
- Rep. Robert LivingstonR-LA-1
- Rep. Willis GradisonR-OH-1
- Rep. Arlan StangelandR-MN-7
- Rep. Jack KempR-NY-38
- Rep. John ErlenbornR-IL-14
- Rep. William LoweryR-CA-41
- Rep. Thomas CorcoranR-IL-15
- Rep. Edwin ForsytheR-NJ-6
- Rep. Gregory CarmanR-NY-3
- Rep. Robert MichelR-IL-18
- Rep. Michael OxleyR-OH-4
- Rep. Thomas HagedornR-MN-2
- Rep. John LeBoutillierR-NY-6
- Rep. Clair BurgenerR-CA-43
- Rep. Tom BlileyR-VA-3
- Rep. Bill ThomasR-CA-18
- Rep. Robert LagomarsinoR-CA-19
Rep. Jerry LewisR-CA-37- Rep. Barry GoldwaterR-CA-20
Rep. Daniel CoatsR-IN-4- Rep. Barber ConableR-NY-35
- Rep. Thomas LoefflerR-TX-21
- Rep. Mark SiljanderR-MI-4
- Rep. William FrenzelR-MN-3
- Rep. Robert DornanR-CA-27
Rep. Judd GreggR-NH-2- Rep. Edward DerwinskiR-IL-4
- Rep. John HilerR-IN-3
- Rep. Manley ButlerR-VA-6
- Rep. Richard CheneyR-WY
- Rep. Thomas HartnettR-SC-1
- Rep. Robert BadhamR-CA-40
- Rep. James CollinsR-TX-3
- Rep. Walter JohnstonR-NC-6
Data notes
The House’s recorded vote on the final version of the law (roll call 348 in Voteview), matched to the vote the record cites and checked against its totals. Positions are each member’s DW-NOMINATE score for that Congress, as on the Ideology page; left to right is more liberal to more conservative. Paired and announced yea votes count as yea. Lists follow the compass, most liberal first. 1 yea vote was cast by members of neither major party and is highlighted on the compass but not listed. A name links to a profile only for members of the current Congress. A law passed by voice vote or unanimous consent has no member list, and neither does a vote Voteview has not yet recorded.
Committees
The committees the bill was sent to, and what each did with it.
Appropriations Committee · House · markup by, referred to, reported bySubcommittee: National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Subcommittee
Data notes
A committee links to its page only where it exists in the current Congress; older and renamed committees are named without a link.
Timeline
From introduction to signing, newest first: the committees, the floor and the president. 30 actions.
- Dec 29, 1981Became lawBecame law · Became Public Law No: 97-121.
- Became lawBecame law · Signed by President.
- Dec 22, 1981PresidentPresident · Presented to President.
- Dec 16, 1981Resolving differencesResolving differences · Senate agreed to House amendments to Senate amendments 22, 23, 24, 25, 38, 62, 63, 89, and 138. By Voice Vote.
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 55-34. Record Vote No: 497.Senate roll call 497
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · Conference report agreed to in Senate: Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 55-34. Record Vote No: 497.Senate roll call 497
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · Conference report considered in Senate.
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · House Receded and Concurred With an Amendment in Senate Amendments 022, 023, 024, 025, 038, 062, 063, 089, 138.
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · House Receded and Concurred in Senate Amendments 053, 070, 073, 142.
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · House Agreed to Conference Report by Yea-Nay Vote: 217 - 201 (Record Vote No: 366).House roll call 366
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · Conference report agreed to in House: House Agreed to Conference Report by Yea-Nay Vote: 217 - 201 (Record Vote No: 366).House roll call 366
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · Conference Report 97-416 Filed in House.
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · Conference report filed: Conference Report 97-416 Filed in House.
- Dec 15, 1981Resolving differencesResolving differences · Conferees agreed to file conference report.
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · Conference committee actions: Conferees agreed to file conference report.
- Dec 14, 1981Resolving differencesResolving differences · House Agreed to Request for Conference and Speaker Appointed Conferees: Long (MD), Obey, Yates, McHugh, Lehman, Wilson, Dixon, Gray, Whitten, Kemp, Edwards (OK), Livingston, Lewis, Porter, Conte.
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · House Disagreed to Senate Amendments by Unanimous Consent.
- Dec 11, 1981Resolving differencesResolving differences · Senate requests a conference. Appoints conferees. Kasten; Hatfield; D'Amato; Rudman; Specter; Inouye; Johnston; Leahy; DeConcini; Proxmire.
- FloorFloor · Senate insists on its amendments by Voice Vote.
- FloorFloor · Received in the Senate. Deemed to have been read twice. The Senate action on S.1802 was incorporated into the bill and the bill as thus amended was deemed to have been read the third time and passed.
- FloorFloor · Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 199 - 166 (Record Vote No: 356).House roll call 356
- FloorFloor · House Agreed to Amendments Adopted by the Committee of the Whole.
- Dec 10, 1981FloorFloor · Rule Passed House.
- Sep 22, 1981CommitteeCommittee · Reported by House Appropriations Committee
- IntroducedIntroduced · Introduced in the House
- Sep 17, 1981CommitteeCommittee · Markup by House Appropriations Committee
- Jun 23, 1981CommitteeCommittee · Markup by National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee
- Jun 10, 1981CommitteeCommittee · Hearings by National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee
- Jan 15, 1981CommitteeCommittee · Referred to House Appropriations Committee
- CommitteeCommittee · Referred to National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee
Data notes
Shows the introduction, each committee and subcommittee step the source dates (referral, hearings, markup, report, discharge), and the floor, conference, presidential and became-law steps. Calendar placements, messages between the chambers, amendments and committee report numbers are not shown for laws before the 108th Congress. Two entries the source lists twice are shown once.
Official record
The bill’s full text and every action, including introduction and committee steps, are on Congress.gov. Data through Oct 7, 2026.










