Topic: U.S. House Committee On Foreign Affairs

GOP lawmaker ends hold on aid to Palestinians

0 . A top House Republican has ended her hold on some $200 million in U.S. security assistance to the Palestinians.. . Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen ...
Key US lawmakers are blocking about $200 million in Palestinian aid in response to the territories' UN statehood bid, congressional aides said Saturday.Members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have frozen the funding "until the ...

Lawmaker: US seeks Saudi nuclear energy deal

0 . A House Republican says the Obama administration plans talks with Saudi Arabia about potential civil nuclear power deals.. . Rep. Ileana...

House panel backs ban on abortion funds

0 . A House panel on Thursday endorsed a ban on giving federal money to international groups that perform abortions or provide abortion ...
Fla Rep Ros-Lehtinen is first Cuban-American to head House Foreign Affairs CommitteeShe hung up on President Barack Obama. Twice. She thought it was a prank.In an expert stroke of political spin, she immediately sent out a press release explaining the apparent ...

Business urges action to lift Cuba travel ban

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top U.S. business group on Tuesday urged the House of Representatives to quickly approve a bill that chips away at the U.S. embargo on Cuba by ending decades of restrictions on travel to the island."It is ...

Active Congressional Session Focuses on Foreign Policy

The article presents an update on the activity in the 110th Congress in the U.S. It is said focusing on foreign policy which both illustrated by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee through an aggressive hearing ...
Make a comment Congratulations to Armenian Americans who won a resolution 23-22 from the House Foreign Affairs Committee today recognizing the...

U.S. Armenia genocide vote looms, angering Turkey

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. congressional panel headed on Thursday toward a vote on calling a 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces genocide despite a plea from the Obama administration to drop the matter and defuse a dispute with Turkey.The ...
<div id="subtitle">Correction: US-Armenian Genocide story</div><div><p>In a Feb. 27 story about a congressional panel preparing to vote on a resolution about World War I killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks, The Associated Press incorrectly named the House ...