In the 1990s, Warren Christopher, Bill Clinton's secretary of state, was similarly frustrated by European reluctance to confront Slobodan Milosevic over Serb actions in Bosnia, and also said that he would wait while the Europeans sorted out what they wanted to do.
And then a money resolution on the Local Government Ombudsman Bill - a private members bill from Tory backbencher Christopher Chope which would extend the powers of the local government ombudsman to provide redress against local authorities that unreasonably ban events on the grounds of health and safety.
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The fact that it exists at all is a reflection of just how far apart Republicans and Democrats are on some of the more contentious parts of the financial regulatory reform bill introduced by Connecticut Democrat Christopher Dodd earlier this year.
Christopher praised both President Bill Clinton and Madeleine Albright, who will succeed him as secretary of state, for their dedication to foreign affairs.
Rounding out the Republican list, there's Romney and Williams, while on the Democratic side there's Bill Richardson with Regis Philbin, and Christopher Dodd with Maury Povich.
The bill, introduced by Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, creates a new consumer protection agency under the Federal Reserve and a new council of regulators who would keep watch over the financial system.
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Republican Senator Christopher Bond of Missouri said the bill favors some regions of the U.S. at the expense of others.
Christopher Chope's Parliament (Amendment) Bill, which has the support of Graham Brady, the chairman of the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers, would limit the "number of peers entitled to vote in the House of Lords" to the same as number of seats in the Commons.
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, whose name is on the broader bill, considered an amendment that would scale back the Lincoln proposal but decided instead to push the whole bill to the floor of the Senate for consideration.
He was owned by Christopher Wilson, trained by T Perren and ridden by Bill Clift, who were also responsible for the first 1, 000 Guineas winner.
Senators Patrick Leahy and Christopher Dodd are among those trying to prevent passage of a bill that was adopted 13-2 last year by the Senate intelligence committee on a broadly bipartisan basis.
Concerns were raised by Conservative backbencher Christopher Chope, who said he was worried about parts of the bill that would apply "retrospectively".
Her hours-long lecture is a mesmerizing romp of set pieces and extemporaneous patter, jumping from Christopher Columbus, to Egyptian pyramids, to the Great Wall, to Bill Gates.
Christopher Dodd, the Connecticut Democrat, is trying to cook up a comprehensive bill he will introduce all at once.
Sponsored by Representative Christopher Cox (RCalif.) and Senator Ron Wyden (DOre.), the bill would stop states and municipalities from imposing targeted, discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce.
As usual proceeding will be dominated by Christopher Chope, the Conservative usual suspect who has mastered the mystic arts of the backbench bill to the point where he has brought dozens of them to the floor of the House.
Meehan, D-Massachusetts, and co-sponsor Christopher Shays, R-Connecticut, said the adjustments were written not only to make the bill more palatable to swing voters in the House, but also to align it with the wishes of the Senate, which passed its own bill in April.
"If it gets to conference, this bill is dead because we allow the opponents of reform to write it in the House, " Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Connecticut, said on ABC's "This Week".
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