This principle has become an "idee fixe" for the Greek lobby and an immutable feature of every subsequent foreign assistance bill.
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Representative Rohrabacher is pushing for an amendment to the foreign aid bill that would make money to Pakistan contingent on the release of Dr. Afridi.
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The House-Senate conference on the Foreign Operations appropriations bill could try to adopt an approach closer to that originally sought by the Clinton Administration.
UNRWA, with its role of UN enabler for the Palestinian war against Israel, was not the only target of the committee's foreign aid budget bill.
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As a general rule, such a powerful political coalition is able to work its will in the smoke-filled room of a House-Senate conference committee on the foreign operations appropriations bill.
On Tuesday, Scottish officials released a report saying a Libyan official had said Foreign Office minister Bill Rammell had told them Mr Brown did not want the Lockerbie bomber to die in a Scottish prison.
She said Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Minister Bill Rammell will raise the issue with the Laotian foreign minister when he visits the UK on 7 May.
U.S. Senators John McCain, an Arizona Republican, and Kay Hagan, a North Carolina Democrat, this morning introduced a bill that would dramatically reduce the taxes companies pay when they bring cash held in foreign countries back to the U.S. The bill temporarily would reduce the tax on repatriated foreign cash to 8.75%% from 35%.
This is because countries that tax companies on worldwide profits do not present the tax bill for foreign profits until these have been repatriated.
As MPs concluded report stage debate on the bill and began third reading, Foreign Secretary William Hague told MPs that the bill was a "significant and radical overhaul" of how decisions on Europe were made.
The bank also picked up the bill for their foreign trips.
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Aspects of the bill bearing on foreign dependency, depot-maintenance and contracting-out of Pentagon activities, for example, are matters on which there will likely be disagreement and room for vigorous debate even among people animated exclusively by the desire to secure the most transformed and capable U.S. military possible.
Last week, Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner, a Wisconsin Republican, said that he would introduce a bill to reform the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).
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Let's rephrase that question: How much time do Democrats wish to spend arguing the ethics of Bill Clinton's foreign earnings over the 2016 political cycle?
It is hard, they say, to imagine Mr Netanyahu or Yasser Arafat, having agreed to attend, depriving Bill Clinton of the foreign-policy success he desperately needs.
Ms. KAY LOACKER: With the discussions about foreign policy, I felt that Bill Richardson and Hillary Clinton were giving answers with just many more examples and substance.
Since September, the government has increased diesel prices to reduce its fuel subsidy bill and allowed more foreign investment in sectors such as retail and civil aviation.
This week the Knesset began deliberations on a bill that would prohibit foreign governments and international agencies from contributing more than NIS 20, 000 to Israeli nongovernmental organizations.
In April the government put forward a bill to cap total foreign landholdings at 20% of the country's territory, and to stop any individual from acquiring over 1, 000 hectares (2, 471 acres).
On Tuesday, he sent a letter to Netanyahu in which he demanded that the premier drop discussion of a Knesset bill that would restrict foreign governmental funding of Israeli-registered political NGOs.
The finance minister, Bill Birch, the foreign minister, Don McKinnon, and the defence minister, Paul East, have been lined up by the plotters for the firing squad though Mrs Shipley respects Mr Birch's political acumen.
The bill allows surveillance of foreign targets without a warrant, unless those targets are likely to communicate with people in the U.S. In those cases, officials could seek broad, "blanket" warrants from a secret federal intelligence court.
The bill allowed employers to recruit foreign workers and pay their way to America.
Ministers have warned MPs that passing the bill would have implications for foreign relations.
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For once, no one can accuse President Bill Clinton of ignoring a foreign-policy matter.
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Lawmakers in New Jersey have proposed a bill to stop firms using foreign workers to fulfil state contracts.
The third provision of Mr. Van Hollen's bill seeks to change the foreign tax-credit rules but only for integrated oil and gas companies.
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Slowly but steadily, a new party line is taking form: Believe it or not, Bill Clinton is a crack foreign policy wonk, after all.
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As long as foreign donors pay the PA's salary bill, few expect a new intifada (uprising).
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