Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-110

§5463 Encouraging Voluntary Assistance for Poland and Hungary

Title 22 › CHAPTER 63 — SUPPORT FOR EAST EUROPEAN DEMOCRACY (SEED) › SUBCHAPTER V — ADDITIONAL SEED PROGRAM ACTIONS › § 5463

Last updated Sep 23, 2026|Official source

Summary

The President should push for a nationwide drive for money and nonperishable food. Community, religious, school, and youth groups should collect these donations to help Poland and refugees from Romania who are in Hungary. The President should use all available powers, including section 402 of title 10 (about moving humanitarian supplies), and Defense Department resources (including the National Guard) to transport noncash donations to Poland. He should seek more authority if needed and encourage private groups like the Polish‑American Congress to help with transport.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §5463

Foreign Relations and Intercourse, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Encouraging private contributions

It is the sense of the Congress that the President should take all possible steps to encourage across the Nation a massive outpouring of private contributions of money and nonperishable foods, to be collected by civic, religious, school, and youth organizations, for assistance to Poland and to refugees from Romania who are in Hungary.

(b)Transportation to Poland of private contributions

In further of subsection (a), the President—

(1)using all available authorities, including section 402 of title 10 (relating to transportation of humanitarian relief supplies), should use resources of the Department of Defense (including the National Guard) to transport nonfinancial private contributions to Poland,

(2)should request additional authorities as needed for the use of those resources for that purpose; and

(3)should encourage maximum participation by such recognized private and voluntary organizations as the Polish-American Congress in the transportation of nonfinancial private contributions to Poland.

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22 U.S.C. § 5463

Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Sep 23, 2026

Release point: 119-110