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Senate panel oversteps power with move on Syrian policy

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has injected itself into U.S. foreign policy making regarding Syria.It's not the first time lawmakers have moved to pressure...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/guest-columns/2013-05-24/senate-panel-overst
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U.S. must not return to isolationism

...nature, timing and location of the next crisis, we have been wrong. In 1948, President Harry Truman and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Arthur Vandenberg ? an erstwhile isolationist ? came to a consensus that would shape our foreign...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/guest-columns/2013-04-28/us-must-not-return-
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Obama's 'Mission Accomplished'

...if things later go poorly. That's more than a theoretical possibility. As an investigation by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee found, Afghanistan has squandered the breathing space given it by the surge, making only modest progress...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/columnists/2011-06-23/obama%E2%80%99s-%E2%80
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Obama gets it from all sides

...D-R.I., protested to Joint Chiefs Chairman Mike Mullen: "I really remain unconvinced." At the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Dick Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Senate Democrat, advised Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/columnists/2011-06-24/obama-gets-it-all-side
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In two languages, U.S. Senate panel hears how women became sex slaves

...to wear and told what to do,'' said ''Maria'' a former sex slaves who wore a disguise before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Near Eastern and Southern Asian affairs subcommittee Tuesday. ''There would be armed men selling...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/040500/nne_0405000012.shtml
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Pentagon official says sale of destroyers to Taiwan not ruled out

...sophisticated radar capable of spotting missile launches deep within China. In fact, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said the administration has given Beijing ''a veto over Taiwan's defense request.'' Beijing bitterly...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/041900/nne_0419000015.shtml
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U.S. suspends security clearance of envoy to Israel

...to pull Indyk's clearance on Sept. 12, although no action was taken until Thursday. Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee requested a briefing on Indyk on Tuesday after an anonymous phone caller told a committee aide the department...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/092300/nne_0923000057.shtml
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Foreign policy finally stirs in presidential campaign

...Cheney said Bush deserved "a lot of credit for that." Marc Thiessen, spokesman for the GOP-controlled Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said administration officials told members of Congress in a briefing Wednesday that Clinton sent a letter...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/100700/pol_1007000024.shtml
Politics
Angry House votes to withhold payment of some U.N. dues

...State Department programs for the 2002 and 2003 fiscal years. A House vote is expected next week. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is still writing its version. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said President Bush "feels strongly...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/051101/gov_0511010016.shtml
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After successful test, missile defense shield still faces challenges

...security rather than improve it. And one domestic skeptic, Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, cautioned that "it's not a real-world test yet. And we have a long way to go, and we should continue...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/071601/gov_0716010022.shtml
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