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And it's not only the fortunes of missile defense advocates that may be profoundly altered by Jeffords' turn. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan will, no doubt, be relieved that the fate of the hundreds of millions of dollars Washington owes his organization will no longer be captive to the...
By changing the chairmanship and hence the agenda of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Jeffords' switch is likely to affect everything from decisions over treaties to key appointments to congressional oversight of such policies as U.S. support for counterinsurgency efforts in Colombia as part of the war on drugs. It...
Foreign Relations GOP chair: Jesse Helms, North Carolina Democratic chair: Joseph Biden, Delaware Effect of change: Where to begin? Biden is no revolutionary, but his moderate-to-liberal policies will stand in stark contrast to Helms? isolationism
When he offered up 11 nominees to the federal bench last week, President George W. Bush urged Congress to confirm them swiftly and without rancor. That won't come easily. Democrats are itching to pick off at least one conservative from the batch. For the moment, they're holding their...
TIME has learned that both Helms and Biden cited reports that Wintershall, an oil subsidiary of the giant German chemical conglomerate BASF, is currently in talks with the Libyan government about properties of the Oasis Partners, a U.S. consortium involving Marathon, Conoco and Amerada Hess. The holdings, which could be...