Transcript for the July 2011 Public Meeting of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy The U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy held a public meeting from 10:00am to 12:00pm on July 12, 2011, at the Capitol Visitor’s Center, room SVC 203-02. The meeting included discussions on funding public diplomacy and the Smith-Mundt Act.…
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2009 Smith-Mundt Symposium On January 13, 2009, a week before President Obama was sworn in, nearly two hundred attended the Smith-Mundt Symposium at the Reserve Officers Association on Capitol Hill. This “discourse on America’s discourse” consisted of two keynotes and four panels and one of the most diverse group ever brought together on the subject.…
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Senator Edward Zorinsky (D-NE) Congressional Record of the 99th Congress, 1st Session, June 7, 1985 (legislative day of June 3, 1985): Mr. ZORINSKY. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that further reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment is as follows: On page 19,…
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Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 1972 DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION WITHIN UNITED STATES SEC. 204. The second sentence of section 501 of the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (22 U.S.C. 1461) is amended to read as follows: “Any such information (other than “Problems of Communism” which may continue to be sold by…
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