Sentences with phrase «house foreign affairs committee»

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.

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.

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

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

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».

«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.

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.»

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.

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.

«Considering the fact that no findings have linked the detainee to any terror group, and the importance of the Agreement to the strengthening of the bond between... Ghana and the government of the United States... the Committee wishes to recommend to the House to adopt its report and ratify the agreement... on the Resettlement in Ghana of two (2) former Guantanamo Bay detainees,» the Foreign Affairs Committee Report said.

Lord President and Leader of the House with lots of media performances and an important cabinet committee role on domestic issues (keep him away from foreign affairs) could suit him well.

Among those elected as committee chairs were Ian Austin (education), Mike Gapes (foreign affairs), Julie Elliott (housing and planning) and Chris Leslie (Treasury).

President Buhari had with him the Governors of Ogun and Plateau; the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Justice, Industry, Trade and Investment; the Chairpersons of Senate and House of Representatives committees on international relations; the Director - General of the National Intelligence Agency, NIA; the Chief of Defence Staff and Nigeria's Ambassador to the United States.

Engel: «Devil's in The Details» on Trump's Plans by David Greene Congressman Eliot Engel spoke briefly on President Donald Trump's speech to a joint session of Congress, just days after the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs -LSB-...]

In statement on the White House blog last week, President Obama thanked the bill's co-sponsors in the House and Senate and the leaders of Foreign Affairs and Agriculture committees for their continued support for Feed the Future, which he described as a «game - changing development initiative.»

At 10.00 am on Nov 19, 2009, the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs is going to hold a hearing titled «Is it Time to Lift the Ban on Travel to Cuba?

Daria Zhuk, 27, came forward in February — one of several female journalists to level claims of harassment against Leonid Slutsky, head of the powerful foreign affairs committee in the Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament.

In 2000, however, the House of Commons Select Committee on Foreign Affairs found that the war was illegal, though it offered by way of mitigation the conclusion that: «NATO's military action, if of dubious legality in the current state of international law, was justified on moral grounds.»

The letter was signed by Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr., ranking member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Rep. Eliot Engel, ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Rep. Bennie Thompson, ranking member of the House Committee on Homeland Security.