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.
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.
As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Democrat Joseph Biden of Delaware got the most time for questions.
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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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.
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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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?
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.
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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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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President of the Foreign Relations Committee Guillermo Carmona defended the agreement, saying that it was the only way to make it possible for Argentine legal officials to question Iranian suspects in Tehran.
As a young member of a Foreign Relations Committee, I wrote and I said and I believed then what I believe now: That a rising China is a positive, positive development, not only for China but for America and the world writ large.
Unlike the unfriendly reception Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice received yesterday at the Foreign Relations Committee from Democrats and Republicans alike, Gates actually heard some words of encouragement.
Richard Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in his opening statement.
Joseph Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the committee would examine the deal.
Jesse Helms, the powerful chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is determined to block it.
Ellen Bork, a former staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, writes about Asia.
Welsh sent a letter to all members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee March 27, detailing his charges.
On Tuesday, Menendez became chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, succeeding Sen.
Biden will replace Senator John Kerry, the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who was here this week.
The United States has not adequately prepared for postwar reconstruction, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Sunday.
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