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The Bureau of Legislative Affairs, headed by Assistant Secretary Barbara Larkin, serves as the liaison between Congress and the Executive Branch on foreign policy matters. The primary mission is to advise the Secretary and other Department principals on all issues that affect the Department's relations with Congress and to pursue the Secretary's legislative priorities. The Legislative Affairs Bureau is responsible for coordinating responses to Congress to ensure consistency in the State Department's communications. Additionally, it facilitates confirmation for ambassadors and other officers appointed by the President.
1999 Congressional Testimony
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The following is a list of appearances by Department of State officials before congressional committees. Texts of prepared opening statements will be uploaded to the web site as they become available.
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July | June | May | April | March | February | January
December
No testimony
November
 11/17/99: Rand Beers, Statement before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources, House Committee on Government Reform (Cuba's Links to Drug Trafficking)
11/09/99: Peter Romero, House International Relations Committee (U.S. Policy Toward Haiti)
11/03/99: Richard Holbrooke, Senate Foreign Relations Committee (U.S. Interests in the UN)
11/02/99: Michael Sheehan, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs (Terrorism in the Middle East and South Asia)
October
10/22/99: Ambassador Lino Gutierrez, Senate Armed Services Committee (The Security of the Panama Canal)
10/19/99: Strobe Talbott, House International Relations Committee (Russia: Its Current Troubles and Its On-going Transformation)
10/06/99: Karl Inderfurth, Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Political Crisis in Pakistan)
10/14/99: Susan Rice, House International Relations Committee, Subcommittee on Africa (South Africa: U.S. Policy and Bilateral Relations)
10/12/99 William Perry,
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs (North Korea)
10/07/99: Secretary Albright, Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty)
10/06/99: Thomas Pickering, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (U.S. Policy Toward Colombia)
10/06/99: Robert Seiple, Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights, House Committee on International Relations (Hearing on the First Annual Department of State Report on International Religious Freedom)
September
09/30/99: Julia Taft, Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights, House International Relations Committee (Testimony on Timor)
09/29/99: Peter Romero, Western Hemisphere Subcommittee, House International Relations Committee (Current Issues in the Western Hemisphere Region)
09/28/99: Howard Wolpe, Special Envoy, House Subcommittee on Africa (Remarks on the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
09/23/99: Strobe Talbott, Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Russia: Its Current Troubles and Its On-Going Transformation)
09/21/99: Rand Beers, Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control (Situation in Colombia and our on-going policy review)
August
08/06/99: Rand Beers, Statement before the Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and
Human Resources Subcommittee, House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight (Colombia)
08/05/99: Jeffrey Bader, Ambassador-designate to Namibia, Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Confirmation Hearing)
08/05/99: Barbro Owens-Kirkpatrick, Ambassador-designate to Niger, Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Confirmation Hearing)
08/05/99: Martin G. Brennan, Ambassador-designate to Uganda, Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Confirmation Hearing)
08/05/99: Tibor Nagy, Ambassador-designate to Ethiopia, Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Confirmation Hearing)
08/04/99: Julia Taft, Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Immigration (Proposal for the FY 2000 refugee admissions program)
08/03/99: Ambassador Howard Jeter, House International Relations Committee, Subcommittee on Africa (Nigeria: On the Democracy Path?)
July
07/30/99: Bennett Freeman, International Operations Subcommittee, Senate Foreign Relations Committee (U.S. Policy Toward Victims of Torture)
07/23/99: Michael Sheehan, Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Confirmation hearing as the Coordinator for Counterterrorism)
07/22/99: Ronald Neumann, testimony, House International Relations, Subcommittee on Africa (U.S.-Libya sanctions)
07/14/99 David Welch, House International Relations Committee (Treatment of Israel in the United Nations)
07/01/99 Stuart Eizenstat, Senate Foreign Relations Committee (The use of Economic Sanctions as a Foreign Policy Tool)
07/01/99 Stanley Roth, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific (U.S. Policy on Hong Kong)
June
06/29/99 Leslie Gerson, Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights, House International Relations Committee (U.S. Policy Toward Victims of Torture)
06/23/99 Elizabeth Jones, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Subcommittee on Near East and South Asia Affairs (U.S. Policy Toward Iraq)
06/17/99 Douglas Peterson,
House Ways and Means Committee, Subcommittee on Trade (U.S.-Vietnam
Trade Relations)
06/16/99
Ralph Boyce, House International Relations Committee, Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs (Malaysia)
06/09/99 William Taylor, House International Relations Committee (U.S. assistance program in the NIS)
06/08/99
Stanley Roth, House Ways and Means Committee, Subcommittee on Trade
(Renewal of Normal Trade Relations With China)
06/08/99 Susan Rice, Subcommittee on African Affairs, Senate International Relations Committee (Central African Conflict)
06/08/99 Martin Indyk, House International Relations Committee (United States Policy Toward the Middle East)
May
05/27/99
Stanley Roth, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Subcommittee on East
Asian and Pacific Affairs (Accidental Bombing of the Chinese Embassy in
Belgrade)
05/27/99 Stuart Eizenstat, House Ways and Means Committee, Subcommittee on Trade (Sanctions reform)
05/25/99 Karl Inderfurth,
Subcommittee on Near East and South Asia, Senate Foreign Relations Committee (India)
05/25/99 Susan Rice, House Committee on International Relations, Africa Subcommittee (The Ethiopian-Eritrean War: U.S. Policy Options)
05/20/99 Secretary Albright, Senate Appropriations Committee on Foreign Operations (U.S. Foreign Operations Budget)
April
04/21/99
Stanley Roth, House International Relations Committee, Subcommittees on Asia and the Pacific and International Economic Policy and Trade (Assessing the Zhu Rongji Visit)
04/21/99 Secretary Albright, House International Relations Committee (U.S. and NATO policy towards the crisis in Kosovo)
04/20/99 Secretary Albright, Senate Foreign Relations Committee (U.S. and NATO Policy Toward the Crisis in Kosovo)
04/15/99: Secretary Albright, House Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee (Funding for international programs)
04/14/99 Susan Shirk, House International Relations Committee, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific (The Taiwan Relations Act at Twenty)
04/14/99 Karl Inderfurth, Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Afghanistan at a Crossroads)
04/14/99 Julia Taft, Subcommittee on Immigration, Senate Judiciary Committee (Kosovo refugees)
March
03/25/99
Martin Indyk, Senate Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Foreign Operations (Wye Supplemental package and implementation of Wye Agreement)
03/24/99 John Leonard, Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps, Narcotics and Terrorism, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (U.S. Policy Toward Columbia)
03/24/99 Michael Ranneberger, Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, House International Relations Committee (U.S.-Cuba Policy)
03/24/99 Rand Beers, Senate Committee On Foreign Relations, Western Hemispheric Subcommittee (U.S. Counternarcotics Efforts With the Government of Colombia)
03/23/99 Alan Larson, House Ways and Means Committee, Subcommittee on Trade (Caribbean Basin Trade Enhancement Act (CBTEA))
03/23/99
Susan Rice, House International Relations Committee, Subcommitte on Africa (Prospects for Peace in Sierra Leone)
03/18/99 Peter Burleigh, House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary and Related Agencies (UN and international organizations)
03/18/99 Melinda Kimble, House Resources Committee (H.R. 883 on environment)
03/18/99 Stanley Roth, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs (Indonesia)
03/17/99 Thomas Pickering, Joint Hearing, Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee (U.S. Policy Toward Iraq: An Update)
03/17/99 Stephen Sestanovich, House International Relations Committee, Asia-Pacific Subcommittee (U.S. Policy Toward Central Asia)
03/15/99 Stuart Eizenstat, Senate Finance Committee, Subcommittee on International Trade (Agricultural Trade Issues: China and Europe)
03/10/99 Secretary Albright, House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and Judiciary (Fiscal Year 2000 Budget)
03/09/99 Julia Taft, House International Relations Committee, Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights (Fiscal Year 2000 Budget Request)
03/09/99
Julia Taft, Senate Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Foreign Operations (Humanitarian Situation in Afghanistan)
03/09/99 Karl Inderfurth, Senate Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Foreign Operations (Afghanistan Today: The U.S. Response)
03/05/99 Bonnie Cohen, Senate Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem (International Y2K)
03/04/99 Bonnie Cohen and Patrick Kennedy, Senate Subcommittee on International Operations (State Department management issues)
03/04/99 Rand Beers, House Government Reform and Oversight Committee (Oversight of U.S.-Mexico Counternarcotics Efforts)
03/03/99 Rand Beers, Western Hemisphere Subcommittee of the House International Relations Committee (U.S. Counternarcotics Efforts in the Western Hemisphere)
03/03/99 Karl Inderfurth, House Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, Committee on International Relations (South Asia: Challenges To U.S. Policy)
03/02/99 Bonnie Cohen and Patrick Kennedy, House Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights (State Department management issues)
February
02/26/99 Harold Koh, House Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Operations, Committee on International Relations (Annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1998)
02/25/99 Secretary Albright, House International Relations Committee (Fiscal Year 2000 Budget)
02/24/99 Bonnie Cohen and David Carpenter, House Appropriations Committee, Commerce, Justice, State Subcommittee (State Department security requirements)
02/24/99 Rand Beers, Senate Drug Caucus (U.S.-Mexico Counternarcotics Cooperation)
02/24/99 Peter Romero, Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs, House Appropriations Committee (Disaster that struck Central America last October)
02/24/99 Secretary Albright, Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Fiscal Year 2000 Budget)
02/11/99 Susan Rice, Subcommittee on Africa, House International Relations Committee (The African Growth and Opportunity Act)
02/10/99 Stanley Roth, House International Relations Committee, Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific (Challenges in U.S.-Asia Policy)
02/04/99 Secretary Albright, Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, State, the Judiciary and Related Agencies (U.S. efforts to counter the forces of international terror)
January
01/20/99 Harold Hongju Koh, House Committee on International Relations (Human Rights in China)
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