HELP Commission

This section may be cited as the “HELP Commission Act”. Therefore, a commission should be established to bring together the best minds associated with development and humanitarian assistance to make a comprehensive review of— The Commission shall— The Commission shall be composed of 21 members as follows: To the extent or in the amounts provided in advance in appropriations Acts— Chapter 10 of title 5 shall not apply to the Commission. In this section, the term “United States development assistance” means— The Commission shall terminate 30 days after the submission of its report under subsection (f). Not later than April 1, 2004, and April 1 of each third year thereafter, the President shall transmit to the Congress a report that analyzes, on a country-by-country basis, the impact and effectiveness of United States economic assistance furnished to each country during the preceding 3 fiscal years. The report shall include the following for each recipient country: An analysis of the impact of United States economic assistance during the preceding 3 fiscal years on economic development in that country, with a discussion of the United States interests that were served by the assistance. The analysis shall be done on a sector-by-sector basis to the extent possible and shall identify any economic policy reforms that were promoted by the assistance. The analysis shall— The report required by this section shall identify— In this subsection, the term “United States economic assistance” means any bilateral economic assistance, from any budget functional category, that is provided by any department or agency of the United States to a foreign country, including such assistance that is intended—