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The United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations is a standing committee of the U.S. Senate charged with leading foreign-policy legislation and debate in the Senate. It is generally responsible for authorizing and overseeing foreign aid programs; arms sales and training for national allies; and holding confirmation hearings for high-level positions in the Department of State. [1]
Shaheen has been the only, or one of two, women on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee since she joined in 2009. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) overlapped with Shaheen until she left in 2017. Sen.
WASHINGTON - The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted on Thursday to move forward New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, Trump’s pick to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, for a floor vote.
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be secretary of state, reacts on the day he testifies during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on ...
The Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism is one of seven subcommittees of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Jurisdiction [ edit ]
The freshman senator will take up the gavel for the influential Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism, according to sources familiar ...
The subcommittee deals with all matters concerning U.S. relations with the countries in Europe and the European Union, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and regional intergovernmental organizations like the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (except the states of Central Asia that are within the jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs).
The top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is threating to block all action on nominees and legislation in the committee unless progress is made to pass sanctions against the ...