Foreign Investment, CFIUS, and Homeland Security : An Overview.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Foreign Affairs Division.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Executive-legislative relations.

Investments, Foreign.

Governmental investigations.

Civil defense--United States.

Civil defense.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (11 p), digital, PDF file)

monochrome

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2011.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This report is one in a series of updates. For the most recent coverage of this report series, please see 11-RS-22863 in the 2011 issue.

Provides overview of foreign direct investment in the U.S., and discusses role of Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. in reviewing and investigating foreign investments to maintain homeland security. Outlines Presidential authority to develop and implement direct investment policy; and summarizes P.L. 110-49, the Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007, which broadens Congressional oversight and emphasizes homeland security and critical infrastructure as key elements of national security that the President must consider when evaluating the national security implications of a foreign investment transaction.

Notes:

Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed May 2014). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.

CRS Report.

Other Format:

Microfiche version: Library of Congress. Foreign Affairs Division. Foreign Investment, CFIUS, and Homeland Security

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