New to Podesta
October 03, 2011
Frank Lowenstein, staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and chief foreign-affairs adviser to Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass., is joining the Podesta Group as a...
Panel Director
September 20, 2011
William Danvers will be the new staff director for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass., announced. Danvers most recently was a senior adviser...
Cut, Cap, Balance High on This Weeks Agenda
July 17, 2011
A Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee will hear on Tuesday from administration officials about U.S. policy toward Yemen, where protestors are trying to oust the government of...
Life Insurers Pick Perkins For Vice President
July 06, 2011
the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He also advised the 2000 Bush-Cheney presidential campaign on U.S-Latin American policy. Perkins has a bachelors degree from...
Pressing Ahead, Ceiling or Not
July 24, 2011
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is expected to release its version of the fiscal 2012 foreign-relations authorization bill this week, although the exact timing wasnt clear...
Administration Defends Aid Programs in Afghanistan
June 09, 2011
Their comments follow a report released by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday finding that tens of billions in taxpayer dollars provided to Afghanistan over the...
House Close to Vote on Ending Libya Funding
June 22, 2011
The bill, drafted by Senate Foreign Relations Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass., and Armed Services ranking member John McCain, R-Ariz., would establish that the U.S. objective...
National Journal 11: 30 Extra
June 08, 2011
Democratic staff on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. SWIPE DELAY MEANS DEATH. The Senate is poised to take up and amendment from Sens. Jon Tester, D-Mont., and Bob...
The President Reaches for the Debt- Ceiling Deal
June 26, 2011
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee plans to meet on Tuesday to vote on at least seven resolutions dealing with Libya. The most well-known resolution, drafted by Foreign...
Spending Bills, Libya, And Weiner Loom
June 12, 2011
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee plans a meeting Thursday at which senators are expected to vote on competing resolutions about Libya operations. And the administration has...
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Syrian Exiles Lead Call to Arm the Opposition
May 12, 2012
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass., has called for setting up safe zones inside Syria, while also providing support to the opposition, reports...
Decision Time Coming on Syria
May 11, 2012
The GOP demands got an unexpected boost this week when Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass., a close administration ally, called for a more muscular...
Clooney Uses Star Power to Highlight Sudanese Crisis
March 14, 2012
Clooney, whose every move during testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was echoed by snapping from photographers cameras, recently returned from a trip to the...
North Korea Problem' Very Tough,' Obama Nominee Says
September 08, 2011
'' Solving this problem is very, very tough,'' one-time special coordinator on North Korea Wendy Sherman said during a confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee ...
Legislative Quagmire Grips Nuclear Security Pacts in U. S.
March 12, 2012
These treaties already won broad bipartisan support from the Senate in 2008 so passing simple legislation to implement them should be possible, Senate Foreign Relations Committee ...
McCaskill blasts Afghan Reconstruction
June 30, 2011
The hearing came on the heels of a report released by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee finding that tens of billions in taxpayer dollars provided to Afghanistan over the...
Senate Panel Authorizes Libya Operations, With Conditions
June 28, 2011
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a resolution on Tuesday authorizing U.S. military operations in Libya with limitations on President Obamas authority, including a...
Allen breaks with McCain on Syria
March 13, 2012
| Hotline On Call During his time in the Senate, Allen served alongside McCain on the Foreign Relations Committee. Both voted in favor of authorizing George W. Bush to send U.S. troops to...
Kerry Plans to Run for Reelection in 2014
August 04, 2011
| Hotline On Call Rumors have swirled that the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has been positioning himself to succeed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Foggy Bottom (...
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Lugars Downfall
May 11, 2012
Finally, the sin of being too focused on issues beyond Indianas borders caught up with Lugar, just as it did with previous Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairmenJ. William...
Shifting Winds
April 18, 2012
As a result, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has witnessed a slow erosion of its influence since the high times of the early Cold War, said Brian Etheridge, a historian...
The Internationalist
March 13, 2011
He has logged two tours as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. President Reagan included Lugar in a select group of Senate leaders he tapped to advise his...
What We Learned From the Surge
February 16, 2011
It seems to me, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joseph Biden, D-Del., said in hearings last week, that we are stuck where we started before the surge: with...
A Rocky Start For Transparency
January 26, 2009
raised,'' Clinton assured the Senate Foreign Relations Committee earlier this month. Clinton stressed that the agreement goes above and beyond existing disclosure requirements...
