Background Information on the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate: January 1966U.S. Government Printing Office, 1966 - 86 pages |
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Page 1 - SEC. 134. (a) Each standing committee of the Senate, including any subcommittee of any such committee, is authorized to hold such hearings, to sit and act at such times and places during the sessions, recesses, and adjourned periods of the Senate, to require by subpena or otherwise the
Page 1 - Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Reservations, understandings, amendments, etc. The Senate may, however, reject a treaty in toto, or stipulate conditions in the form of amendments, reservations, understandings, declarations, statements, interpretations, or statements in committee reports. For example, the Statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency was approved subject to an "interpretation and
Page 1 - (f) All hearings conducted by standing committees or their subcommittees shall be open to the public, except executive sessions for marking up bills or for voting or where the committee by a majority vote orders an executive session.
Page 1 - ratification which, in the case of the nuclear test ban treaty, reads as follows: Be it resolved (two-thirds of the Senators present concurring therein), That the Senate advise and consent to the ratification of the treaty banning nuclear weapon tests in the atmosphere, in outer space, and under water, which was signed at Moscow on August 5, 1963, on behalf of the United States of America, the
Page 6 - This subcommittee has jurisdiction corresponding to the Bureau of African Affairs in the Department of State. The subcommittee considers all matters and problems relating to both the dependent and the independent areas of Africa, with the exception of the Union of South Africa. It deals with such questions as colonialism, nationalism, and economic development.
Page 42 - the convention and accompanying protocol for the avoidance of double taxation and the establishment of rules of reciprocal administrative assistance in the case of income and other taxes, signed at Washington on March 23, 1939.
Page 7 - and said staff members shall be assigned to the chairman and ranking minority member of such committee as the committee may deem advisable. Each such committee is further authorized to terminate the services by a majority vote of the committee of any such professional staff member as it may see fit. Professional staff members shall not engage in any
Page 1 - (c) No standing committee of the Senate or the House, except the Committee on Rules of the House, shall sit, without special leave, while the Senate or the House, as the case may be, is in session. 1
Page 44 - 162, extending recognition to the International Exposition for Southern California in the year 1968 and authorizing the President to issue a proclamation calling upon the several States of the Union and foreign countries to take part in the exposition.
Page 7 - The geographic scope of this subcommittee extends from China and Korea to Burma inclusive, on the mainland of Asia, Hong Kong, Japan, the Philippines, Malaya, Indonesia, Oceania, and the South Pacific islands. On colonial matters it has a related interest with the Subcommittee on