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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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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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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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 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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Lawmakers in New Jersey have proposed a bill to stop firms using foreign workers to fulfil state contracts.
Bill Clinton gets much higher marks on foreign policy than he did in the previous survey.
Peru's Congress is considering a bill that would raise the cap on foreign investment by pension funds, from 30% to 50% of their assets.
In a statement, AAJ President Gibson Vance advocated passage of a bill pending in Congress that would require foreign manufacturers to designate a U.S. agent to accept service should they be sued here.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy has filed an amendment to the Gang of Eight bill that would allow gay Americans with foreign-born partners to sponsor them for green cards just like heterosexual couples can.
If enacted in its current form, Section 621 of this year's Energy bill , by contrast, would allow foreign companies to receive U.S. HEU for use in medical isotope production without having to move toward a low-enriched uranium (LEU) target, even if it is technically feasible for them to do so.
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As implied, the bill prescribes allowable methods and boundaries for acquiring foreign intelligence.
U.S President Barack Obama is threatening to cut off foreign aid to Nigeria if a recent anti-gay bill is passed, but Nigerians are unwavering.
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You will be able to deduct these from your U.S. tax bill, yet make sure the credit for foreign tax paid won't open you up to the dreaded alternative minimum tax.
U.S. tech firms successfully lobbied for the draft immigration bill to include caps on the number of foreign workers a U.S.-based company can employ on skilled-worker visas, according to lobbyists working for U.S. firms and another representing Indian outsourcers.
Another provision in the bill would prohibit any company from sending a foreign national employee (on an H-1B or L-1) to work with a customer offsite without first obtaining permission (via a formal waiver process) from the U.S. Department of Labor (or U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for an L-1).
Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman Menzies Campbell also welcomed publication of a draft Bill.
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