He sits on the boards of the Economic Club of New York, the Council of the Americas and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.

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Harrington currently serves as Director of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Committee on International Security and Arms Control.

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Some of the guidelines that Medicare relies on were set by a committee of the U.S. National Kidney Foundation, whose work was principally funded by Amgen.

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The transaction is subject to review by the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment, which evaluates the potential national security effects of transactions.

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The bill, co-written by Kagan Owens of the National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides, is in the Committee on Agriculture, awaiting action by the U.S. House of Representatives.

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Dr. Yoshikawa received the Boyd McCandless Award for early career contributions to developmental psychology from the American Psychological Association, and has served on the Board on Children, Youth and Families of the National Academy of Sciences as well as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Head Start Research and Evaluation.

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The Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) is responsible for analyzing the national security implications, if any, of prospective mergers and acquisitions which involve the purchase of American companies by international investors.

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