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7 unusual facts about United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations


Algeria–United States relations

In August 2005, then-Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Senator Richard G. Lugar, led a Presidential Mission to Algeria and Morocco to oversee the release of the remaining 404 Moroccan prisoners of war held by the Polisario Front in Algeria.

Christopher C. Horner

Horner has testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, and works on a legal and policy level with numerous think tanks and policy organizations throughout the world.

Embassy of the United States, Baghdad

During construction, the US government kept many aspects of the project under wraps, with many details released only in a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee report.

Ivan Eland

He has testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.

James P. Lucier

James P. Lucier, is an author, and was a staff member of the United States Senate for 25 years, and was a former staff director for the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.

Jozef Cywinski

In 1987, during the demise of the Communist era in Eastern Europe, Cywinski was asked by Zbigniew Brzezinski, the US Security Advisor to President Carter, to consult with the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations headed by Senator Richard Lugar to develop the economical aid program to Poland.

Legal status of Hawaii

In 1894, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee sent Senator John Tyler Morgan to make a second investigation.


China Hands

Notable was the invitation to the surviving China Hands to testify to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in 1971.

Frederick H. Fleitz

Fleitz's name hit the press in the spring of 2005 during the battle in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to confirm Bolton as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.


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