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This gave the President the power to block foreign deals after a CFIUS review. The committee was granted formal statutory authority by the Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007 and further strengthened in 2018 by the Foreign Investment Risk Review and Modernization Act. [3]
The Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (FEPA) enables US authorities to prosecute foreign officials who demand or accept bribes from a US citizen, US company, or within a US jurisdiction. Analysts stated that FEPA addresses a longstanding gap in US anti-bribery legislation by tackling the "demand" side of bribery.
Public Law 118-50 (referred to as the National Security Act, 2024 in drafts) is an appropriations bill enacted by the 118th Congress and signed into law by president Joe Biden on April 24, 2024. It provides $95.3 billion of foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, and includes the 21st Century Peace through Strength Act, which itself ...
The act was implemented by President George W. Bush's Executive Order 13456 on January 23, 2008. [1] The Act addresses many of the issues that have been the focus of concern since the 2005 report: it establishes transaction-specific and general Congressional notification requirements, creates rules that dictate how applications before CFIUS may be withdrawn, and specifically includes energy ...
Go after bribes and espionage, but leave mere speech alone.
Critics of the act say a forced sale under the threat of a ban may be a violation of the First Amendment or motivated by political opinions regarding the Israel–Hamas war, and that a comprehensive privacy legislation would be more appropriate than singling out TikTok. TikTok and ByteDance filed a lawsuit against the legislation on May 7, 2024.
The Exon–Florio Amendment 50 U.S.C. app 2170 is a law that was enacted by the United States Congress in 1988 to review foreign investment within the United States. (It was later amended by the SAFE Port Act of 2006 and the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018.)
Amendment 1 Exempts local laws or local constitutional amendments from the budget isolation resolution process. Mar 5 >50% 341,515 48.69% 359,850 51.31%: California: Legislature: Approved Proposition 1: Reforms the Mental Health Services Act and issues $6.38 billion in bonds for homeless individuals and veterans. Mar 5 >50% 3,636,678 50.18% ...