The Delaware senator has held two of the most important jobs in Washington: chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Kerry's hearing Thursday is in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, of which he is the chairman.
The President took the opportunity to update the chair and the ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee on the status of our negotiations with the Russians on START.
William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, dragged members of President Lyndon Johnson's administration before his committee to expose some of the weaknesses that were only starting to become apparent in the administration's Vietnam policies.
As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Democrat Joseph Biden of Delaware got the most time for questions.
While the exact reasons for this are not definitively stated, it is worth observing, for example, that even Chairman Kerry and Ranking Member Lugar of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee both staunch advocates of the New START treaty with Russia last year allowed testimony before their committee from two known treaty skeptics (though they were vastly outnumbered by witnesses in support of the treaty).
Incredibly, the voices of such critics were not afforded an opportunity to be heard when, in the Fall of 2003, the Foreign Relations Committee last considered the Law of the Sea Treaty and approved a resolution of ratification.
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Jesse Helms, R-North Carolina, the second Republican to enter the chamber and the former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, walked in with the help of his cane and made his way directly to his seat without a word to anyone.
Senator Inhofe, Chairman of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, held the hearing in response to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's exclusion of treaty critics from testifying.
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In his current role as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Kerry has traveled the globe on behalf of the Obama administration to mend frayed relationships.
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Even before the deal was announced, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, chairwoman of the House Foreign Relations Committee, had already called for ending US financing of the PA in light of its refusal to negotiate peace with Israel or recognize Israel's right to exist.
Lugar, R-Indiana, is minority leader of the Foreign Relations Committee and worked with Obama last year to expand a program aimed at destroying weapons of mass destruction in the former Soviet Union.
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As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Leahy has been outspoken in his support of UNESCO and has actively sought a political solution to reverse the funding cut.
Jesse Helms (R-NC) the incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee whose concerns about a Golan deployment are a matter of record ought to dissuade the Clinton Administration from making any commitments along these lines before the 104th Congress takes office.
Last week, Indiana Senator and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Richard Lugar wrote a letter to US Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, urging the State Department do more to help American families bring their children home, specifically citing the families adopting children from Vietnam.
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But the uncomfortable fact is that Mr Helms, as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has a voice in foreign policy almost as loud as that of the president himself, and sometimes louder.
Joe Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that if the president disagrees so strongly with the idea of talking to Iran, then he needs to fire his secretaries of state and defense, both of whom Biden said have pushed to sit down with the Iranians.
The Menges Hemispheric Security Project was asked to submit a statement for the hearing before the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee of the House Committee on Foreign Relations on US-Colombia Relations.
Together we can again provide the doubters -- prove the doubters wrong who never tire of tedious question that from my first -- as a young senator, chairman of the European Affairs Subcommittee of Foreign Relations Committee, attended my first meeting on NATO in 1976 and the question was: Whither NATO?
Frank Ruddy, noted in today's Washington Times, such a step was made necessary by the ideologically motivated and vindictive refusal over many months of Senator Christopher Dodd -- the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Western Hemisphere Subcommittee -- to afford Mr. Reich the courtesy of a confirmation hearing, let alone a vote in committee or on the Senate floor.
Bob Corker, R-Tennessee, ranking member of the influential Senate Foreign Relations Committee, for instance, last month called for an expansion of the scope of the authorization.
These bills will be managed by the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Sen.
One of the strongest supporters of expansion is Republican Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee.
Please share this letter with your colleagues and include it in the record of the Foreign Relations Committee's deliberations on the Bolton re-nomination.
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The Lugar-Helms feud dates back to at least 1994 when the North Carolina senator invoked his seniority and assumed chairmanship of the Foreign Relations Committee.
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Mr Kerry, former Massachusetts senator and 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, has spent almost three decades in the US Senate as a member of the Foreign Relations Committee.
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And Obama, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, questioned whether the conditions set by U.S. commanders for withdrawal would lead to a war that could last 20 to 30 years.
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We request that you share this assessment of Secretary Bolton with your colleagues and ensure that it is reflected in the record of the Foreign Relations Committee's deliberations on his nomination.
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Richard Lugar is chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.
Barack Obama, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, questioned whether the conditions set by U.S. commanders for withdrawal would lead to a war that could last 20 to 30 years.
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