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Secretary of State, Colin Powell appeared before a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee. Sec. Powell testified about the State Department’s funding request for fiscal year 2005, operations in …

Secretary of State Colin Powell testified to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee about State Department funding for fiscal year 2003. Among the topics he addressed were recovery operation…

Witnesses testified about U.S. efforts to curb drug trafficking in the hemisphere. They talked about the newly renamed Andean Anti-drug Initiative, aid to Colombia and the region, law enforc…

Witnesses testified about the Russian war in Chechnya, potential human rights violations in the region, and what direction newly elected President Putin might take in the region. They also t…

Witnesses testified about a plan to provide a $1.6 billion aid package to Colombia to assist in efforts to end the drug trade. The emergency spending package would train and equip Colombian …

Clinton Administration Secretary of State Madeleine Albright testified about the State Department’s funding and the situation in the Balkans, including the refugee crisis and the NATO milita…

Brian Atwood testified about the proposed budget for the Agency for International Development (AID) for fiscal year 2000. He enumerated spending priorities for the agency, particularly human…

Senators heard testimony about foreign operations appropriations. Secretary Albright pointed to such high-profile operations as the Middle East Peace Process, and the situation in Kosovo as …

Senate Foreign Relations Operations Subcommittee held a hearing on the U.S. Foreign Aid and the economy. Subcommittee members heard testimony from several business executives on the advantag…

Secretary of State Warren Christopher testified on the administration’s 1996 foreign aid budget proposal of $21.3 billion. The secretary also reviewed President Clinton’s recent trip to Russ…

Witnesses testified on aid to new independent states including Estonia, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Georgia, and the Ukraine. Strobe Talbot focused on assistance to the Russian Federation in…

The Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Foreign Operations heard testimony from Secretary Warren Christopher on funding for the Department of State’s foreign operations, including internat…

The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations heard testimony on foreign humanitarian aid appropriations for the fiscal year 1993. Witnesses included members of humanitarian a…

The subcommittee continued to hear testimony on the Middle East peace process from Secretary of State James Baker, who recently spent 36 days over the course of two months touring the Middle…

The Senate Appropriations Foreign Operations Subcommittee heard testimony on proposed appropriations for refugee programs. The hearing was chaired by Senator Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont.

Secretary Baker testified on the proposed budget for the Department of State.

The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations discussed supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 1990, including an aid package for Panama, Nicaragua, and the World Bank.

Subcommittee resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for foreign assistance program, focusing on Latin America.

Subcommittee resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1990 for foreign assistance programs, focusing on multilateral development banks, including World Bank, Internation…

Subcommittee on Foreign Operations concluded hearings on S. 760, to implement the bipartisan agreement of March 24, 1989 on Central America by providing continued humanitarian assistance to …