Title 22Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73

§6210 Preservation of American jobs

Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 71— - UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING › § 6210

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Congress wants U.S. Information Agency and Broadcasting Board leaders, when reorganizing overseas services, to avoid cutting U.S. jobs and to move as many positions back as possible, consistent with consolidation goals.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §6210

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It is the sense of the Congress that the Director of the United States Information Agency and the Chairman of the Board for International Broadcasting should, in developing the plan for consolidation and reorganization of overseas international broadcasting services, limit, to the maximum extent feasible, consistent with the purposes of the consolidation, elimination of any United States-based positions and should affirmatively seek to transfer as many positions as possible to the United States.

Legislative History

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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

United States Information Agency (other than Broadcasting Board of Governors and International Broadcasting Bureau) abolished and functions transferred to Secretary of State, see section 6531 and 6532 of this title.

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Citation

22 U.S.C. § 6210

Title 22Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73