Sentences with phrase «house foreign affairs»

Led by opponents of women's health, the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted 23 — 17 yesterday to eliminate U.S. funding for to UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing on February 7, 2012 on Export Controls, Arms Sales and Reform: Balancing U.S. Interests, Part II.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce said Monday he will not seek re-election this year, adding his name to a growing list of senior Republican lawmakers who have chosen to retire in what is shaping up to be a difficult election year for the GOP.

First elected to Congress in 2016, Rep. Adriano Espaillat is serving his first term in Congress where he serves as a member of the influential U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and the House Select Committee on Small Business.

Adler most recently served as the communications director for the Democratic side of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, outright opposes any intervention.

Freshman Rep. Lee Zeldin has positioned himself as a foreign policy firebrand with his tough talk on taking out ISIS, but the Long Island Republican has skipped out from his assignment as a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which is charged with dealing with national security foreign policy.

In January, the DCCC highlighted allegations that Zeldin missed more than half of full House Foreign Affairs Committee hearings in his first year in Congress, that were first reported by the New York Post.

But Higgins, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, says the U.S. can not impose itself in every conflict.

I'm not sure about legal actions a citizen should take if they disagreed with the economic help, but you could write the members of House Foreign Affairs Committee.

He serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the House Armed Services Committee and previously served as the mayor of Glen Cove, New York, and as Nassau County Executive.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Ed Royce announced he will not run for reelection, boosting Democrats» chances of winning his Southern California district as they work to regain control of the majority this year.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee — including three New Yorkers — recorded a bipartisan video in support of Team USA that's headed to Sochi.

«What we're experiencing is an unprecedented, highly coordinated, deliberate and systematic attack intended to drive us out,» the Christian charity's lead attorney Stephen Oakley told the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted last week to pass two resolutions: one calling for support of the creation of an international war crimes tribunal to prosecute those involved in Syria, and the other calling the crimes perpetrated by ISIS against Christians and other minorities there «war crimes,» «crimes against humanity,» and «genocide.»

In December, Compassion went before the House Foreign Affairs Committee to discuss some the obstacles they had been facing while serving children in India.

Last week, representatives from Compassion International went before the House Foreign Affairs Committee and talked to them about their obstacles with serving children in India, mainly that the Indian government's regulations would result in the organization being driven out of the country because of a lack of access to funds.

Last week, representatives from Compassion International went before the House Foreign Affairs Committee and talked to them about their obstacles with serving children in India, mainly that the Indian government's...

«My elder brother was taken away by these thugs without any reasoning and then they came back and started beating up my nephew, and they used stakes and violently beat him up,» Chen told the House Foreign Affairs Committee from his hospital room.

NBR's Abraham Denmark to Testify at House Foreign Affairs Asia Subcommittee Hearing on Rebalance to Asia (February 24 2015)

Cummings said in the letter, which he wrote with the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Eliot Engel, that «it appears that General Flynn violated federal law by omitting this trip and these foreign contacts from his security clearance renewal application in 2016 and concealing them from security clearance investigators who interviewed him as part of the background check process.»

Said Rep. Ed Royce, R - Calif., chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee: «I am very concerned by reports of deep cuts that could damage efforts to combat terrorism, save lives, and create opportunities for American workers.»

Not exact matches

This past Tuesday I had the honour of being invited to testify before the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs of Canada's House of Commons.

In response to Russian provocations, the Pentagon is developing new unmanned systems, a new long - range bomber, a new long - range stand - off cruise missile, and a number of innovative technologies, McKeon said in testimony to a joint hearing of the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committees.

Bob Nault, who heads the House of Commons foreign affairs committee, will be taking his blunt assessment directly to Capitol Hill in the coming days.

Now, after stints as environment minister and government House leader, Baird has the job his friends say he long coveted: foreign minister for a Prime Minister who increasingly sees foreign affairs as an area where this government can make a mark.

And with John Baird away from the House of Commons, opposition questions directed at Mr. Clement are now being handled by Deepak Obhrai, the parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

«That this House expresses profound concern that, despite voting 279 in favour and none against the motion calling on the Government to refer genocidal atrocities of Daesh to the United Nations Security Council on 14 April 2016, still, no such referral has been made; recalls the words of the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in an article in the Telegraph on 27 March 2016, Daesh are engaged in what can only be called genocide of the poor Yazidis, though for some baffling reason the Foreign Office still hesitates to use the term genocide; and calls on the Government to ensure that the unanimous will of Parliament is implemented with urgency.»

They testified before the US House of Representatives» Foreign Affairs Committee.

Roger Liddle is a Labour Whip and a frontbench spokesperson on Europe and Foreign Affairs in the House of Lords.

A few clear - sighted politicans at Westminster probably realise that once all four of the UK nations (ie including England) exercise extensive devolved powers, the UK becomes a federation — and a necessary consequence of that is a massive transfer of powers from Westminster to the four national parliaments and governments, leaving the House of Commons (together with the successor to the House of Lords) and the Westminster government with only very limited functions — basically foreign affairs, defence, and co-ordination of all - UK matters that transcend the borders of the four nations.

He will be accompanied by the ministers of Power, Works and Housing, Petroleum, Environment, Justice, Trade and Investment, Finance and Foreign Affairs, as well as the National Security Adviser.

She has worked previously with the Indian Ministry of External Affairs and the United States House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs.

which was purported to have been released by the Communications Bureau of the Flagstaff House, designated Dr George Adja - Sipa Yankey to replace Seth Terkper as the Finance Minister; Dr Ekwow Spio - Garbrah to replace Ms Hanna Tetteh as Foreign Affairs Minister, whilst Ms Tetteh was supposedly moved to the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection to replace Nana Oye Lithur whose fate was not clarified in the statement.

A few days later Tory grandee Lord Salisbury went further, proposing that the Commons become an English parliament and the Lords become the UK house for a remnant of reserved subjects like defence and foreign affairs.

But the prime minister also included some of the Liberal party's old guard, putting former party leader Stéphane Dion in foreign affairs and giving one of his closest advisers, MP Dominic LeBlanc, the role of government leader in the House of Commons.

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In its 2013 report on US - UK relations, the House of Commons foreign affairs select committee concluded that «there is little historical evidence that taking a different stance to the US, or declining to comply with US preferences on specific issues, damages the UK government's relationship with Washington in any long - term way».

While addressing journalists after the meeting, the Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama, disclosed that «President Muhammadu Buhari in his capacity as the mediator of the crisis in The Gambia hosted a meeting today with certain ECOWAS Presidents here in the State House.

«Gary Ackerman is a solid progressive who is, if the Democrats take back the House, poised to assume important leadership roles in protecting the integrity of our financial system and strengthening the U.S. - Israel relationship as a senior member of the House Financial Services and Foreign Affairs committees.»

While inaugurating the Ossai - led Ethics Committee alongside the Foreign Affairs after the House resolution at plenary on Tuesday, 21st June, Dogara had described the assignment as a very serious one where many people had already made their conclusion that the three accused lawmakers were wrong.

In a strongly worded statement Congressman Eliot Engel, Ranking Member of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs, has denounced the Republican majority in the House of Representatives for trying to keep the Homeland Security Appropriations Act hostage in order to -LSB-...]

A presenter with TV3 Network Limited, Komla Klutse has blasted former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hannah Tetteh for daring to ask if any Ghanaian media house was going to send reporters to cover the crisis in The Gambia.

Shadow First Secretary of State, Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills Angela Eagle MP Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer John McDonnell MP Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Seema Malhotra MP Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham MP Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn MP Opposition Chief Whip Rosie Winterton MP Shadow Secretary of State for Health Heidi Alexander MP Shadow Secretary of State for Education Lucy Powell MP Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Owen Smith MP Shadow Secretary of State for Defence Maria Eagle MP Shadow Lord Chancellor, Shadow Secretary of State for Justice Lord Falconer of Thoroton Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Shadow Minister for the Constitutional Convention Jon Trickett MP Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Lisa Nandy MP Shadow Leader of the House of Commons Chris Bryant MP Shadow Secretary of State for Transport Lilian Greenwood MP Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Vernon Coaker MP Shadow Secretary of State for International Development Diane Abbott MP Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland Ian Murray MP Shadow Secretary of State for Wales Nia Griffith MP Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Kerry McCarthy MP Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities Kate Green MP Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Michael Dugher MP Shadow Minister for Young People and Voter Registration Gloria De Piero MP Shadow Minister for Mental Health Luciana Berger MP Shadow Leader of the House of Lords Baroness Smith of Basildon Lords Chief Whip Lord Bassam of Brighton Shadow Attorney General Catherine McKinnell MP Shadow Minister without Portfolio Jonathan Ashworth MP Shadow Minister for Housing and Planning John Healey MP

On the strength of the recommendations of the committee, which were adopted by the House, the House «directs the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Nigerian consulate in South Africa to work together with their South African counterparts, where expedient, in helping to quickly resolve matters regarding passports as well as regularising migrant status of Nigerians, particularly those with South African spouses.»

«The House directs the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to do a reminder on the compensation claims of Nigerians involved in the 2015 attacks, while efforts are sustained in quantifying subsequent destructions.

Appearing before the House of Commons foreign affairs select committee, Johnson took the opportunity to hit back at the chairman for subtly slamming his modus operandi.

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The President, who will be accompanied by the ministers of Power, Works and Housing, Petroleum, Environment, Justice, Trade and Investment, Finance and Foreign Affairs, as well as the National Security Adviser, will also meet with Nigerian professionals in the UAE before returning to Abuja on Tuesday, January 19.

At 3 p.m., Rep. Adriano Espaillat and members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs will hold a press conference to discuss the Administration's requested cuts to the international affairs budget, Room 2172, Rayburn House Office Building, WashingtoAffairs will hold a press conference to discuss the Administration's requested cuts to the international affairs budget, Room 2172, Rayburn House Office Building, Washingtoaffairs budget, Room 2172, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C.