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Possible duplicate article[edit]

Hey guys, I'm pretty sure this would be considered notable enough to get its own article, but I don't really know what I'm doing so correct me if I'm wrong. The article on the Foreign assistance act of 1961 doesn't really go into detail about this amendment, and I think its notable in its own right because it demonstrates a very famous use of the power of the purse to tell the executive to 'stick it', and of course, because it played the decisive role in the fall of Saigon a year later. IforgotAboutSemiProtection (talk) 19:50, 13 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

..this can't seriously not have its own article by now. Am I missing it somewhere, is it under a different name? Somebody please contact me on my talk page if this article already exists elsewhere. I'm going to hold off on spending my time writing a whole article on this if it already exists. IforgotAboutSemiProtection (talk) 20:18, 13 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Update : There is an article on the Hughes-Ryan Amendment to the Foreign Assistance act of 1974, which that article seems to somewhat misleadingly represent as a law of its own (to my knowledge, it is not). I will work on that article as well as I continue to expand this one. At some point in the future I think that article may need to be renamed, or even later in the future, as the content of this article grows, merged into this one - but a merger is not going to happen any time soon, there is a lot of work to do here. IforgotAboutSemiProtection (talk) 21:01, 7 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]