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There is no single, authoritative public list in the provided reporting that catalogues U.S. senators “receiving money from Venezuela.” Available sources document extensive U.S. legislative activity o...
There is no credible, independently verified evidence that Secretary of State during his testimony on Jan. 28, 2026; multiple news outlets covered the hearing in detail without reporting any confirmat...
President Obama launched U.S. military support in Libya in March 2011 without a new congressional authorization and the Obama administration argued the operations did not trigger the War Powers Resolu...
The NATO Unity Protection Act is a bipartisan bill introduced in the 119th Congress that, in its operative language, bars Department of Defense and Department of State funds from being used to blockad...
Declassified U.S. government records and agency reports—including CIA documents released through the agency’s FOIA Reading Room and the National Security Archive collection—show that U.S. officials kn...
The official transcript and video of ’s Jan. 28 testimony show a secretary of state energetically defending ’s operation to remove , repeatedly framing as an arena for U.S. adversaries while insisting...
The complete PDF of the NATO Unity Protection Act is hosted on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee website and can be downloaded directly at https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/nato_unity_...
The United States could not unilaterally add Montenegro to NATO without congressional involvement: the Constitution and practice require the Senate’s advice and consent (a two‑thirds vote) to ratify t...
Congress reacted to the 2011 Libya intervention with a mix of oversight, contested votes, and proposals both to authorize and to constrain the operation — but it did not enact an explicit authorizatio...
Former government officials speaking privately about foreign policy operate in a space shaped primarily by constitutional allocation of foreign affairs power to the President, executive orders that re...
Jesse Helms was a U.S. Senator from North Carolina (1973–2003) who influenced American foreign policy as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (1995–2001) and as a vocal conservative crit...
Jesse Helms was a five-term U.S. senator from North Carolina (1973–2003) who shaped U.S. foreign policy debates as long‑time chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (1995–2001) and as a vocal ...
Congressional oversight and legislation shaping U.S. defense policy toward Israel is concentrated in several standing committees: the Senate and House Armed Services Committees and the Senate Foreign ...