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      "date": "1999-01-04",
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      "title": "Foreign and Defense Policy: Key Issues in the 106th Congress",
      "summary": "When the 106th Congress comes to work in January, its first order of business will be to deal\nwith\nthe impeachment of the President of the United States.\n The 1998 congressional campaigns and elections suggested that the agenda of the 106th\nCongress also will be largely domestic in its focus: Social Security, health care, and education were\nthe order of the day in campaigns across America and on post-election news programs. Indeed, of\nthe issues discussed in this report, only increased defense spending to address military readiness and\nretention of trained military personnel has been reported on recently, as the President announced over\nNew Year's weekend his proposal to ask for a substantial increase in the FY2000 budget for military\npay and hardware development.\n Most immediately, the 106th Congress is expected to consider a supplemental appropriations\nbill to support the Wye River Memorandum, including increased assistance to Israel, Jordan, and the\nPalestinians. Congress likely will quickly consider new assistance and trade benefits to Central\nAmerican countries hit hardest by Hurricane Mitch. Development aid to countries severely affected\nby the global financial crisis, and more humanitarian assistance to Kosovo are another two issues\nthat might find their way into a supplemental appropriations bill in the first few months of the new\nCongress. The United States also stands in arrears with the United Nations and the World Bank, but\nneither matter is expected to receive appropriators' attention in the supplemental.\n There are a few routine foreign affairs and defense issues to be addressed by the 106th Congress,\nalbeit with less urgency than the supplemental appropriations. The President will issue international\nnarcotics control certifications before March 1st, as required by law. For any country found to be\ntrafficking or producing narcotics, certification could jeopardize its receipt of U.S. foreign\nassistance; Congress might respond with legislation supporting or negating specific countries'\ncertification status. New authorizations and appropriations bills will be considered for departments\nand agencies. Authorization for some foreign assistance programs expires before the end of the first\nsession, and reauthorizations are likely to be taken up. The President's authority to waive\nproliferation sanctions imposed on India and Pakistan last May must be renewed this year or be\nallowed to expire, which would require the reimposition of sanctions that many Members of\nCongress find counterproductive.\n Several laws remain in the United States Code that were shaped during the Cold War. The\n106th Congress could turn its attention to these. Previous several Congresses have made some effort\nto amend, repeal, or replace the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and Export Administration Act of\n1979; consensus on new provisions, however, has not been reached. Congress has not enacted a\nforeign aid authorization bill since 1985, each year waiving the requirement to do so and relying on\nthe annual appropriations measure to express its foreign policy interests and opinions. Export\ncontrols in the Export Administration Act expired in 1994 and since then have been left entirely to\nthe executive branch to administer.",
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  "topics": [
    "Appropriations",
    "Asian Affairs",
    "Environmental Policy",
    "European Affairs",
    "Foreign Affairs",
    "Industry and Trade",
    "Intelligence and National Security",
    "Latin American Affairs",
    "Middle Eastern Affairs",
    "National Defense",
    "Russian, Central Asian, and Eurasian Affairs"
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