The drawbacks of the Berman legislation were it to be adopted by the full House Foreign Affairs Committee and subsequently enacted into law should be obvious.

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Opponents of the U.S. chemical capability in Congress notably House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Dante Fascell will welcome this agreement as a means of quickly terminating the American binary modernization program.

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For example, the Subcommittee on Economic Policy and Trade of the House Foreign Affairs Committee which has, under the chairmanship of Rep. Sam Gedjenson (D-CT), forcefully advocated a radical weakening of the existing export control regime has yet to make any inquiries, much less conduct hearings, into this matter.

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Last summer the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee said British troops were trying to do too much and had experienced "mission creep".

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William Delahunt (member of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs) from Massachusetts's 10th District and U.S. Rep. - R.

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Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, cautioned the United States in an interview Monday against hastily getting involved in Syria.

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The Chairman of the TPCC shall set forth the steps taken to implement this plan in the annual report to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives required by the Export Enhancement Act of 1992, Public Law 102-249, 106 Stat. 2186, and Executive Order 12870, as amended.

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These comments are, in part, based on Peter Bergen's testimonybefore the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs on March 4.

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However late Wednesday, House Foreign Affairs Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Florida, indicated that Clinton will indeed testify in front of the committee sometime in mid-January.

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