Several members of the House committee also urged Pistole to drop the proposal, warning that if he doesn't, Congress may take steps to block the policy change.
So far, Russia has been a stumbling-block to western policy in Yugoslavia rather than a threat.
The debacle has also exposed Australia to a new reality over its other foreign-policy block, the American alliance.
The Germans and French object, for instance, to recent decisions by the commission to enforce competition policy and block subsidies.
Bailouts are a symptom of misguided policy meant to block out failure.
Bruce Leslie, who worked with the White House on per-capita caps as a Senate staffer in 1997 and is now the head of First Focus, said per-person caps are better than block grants, but the policy is unusually difficult to write into law.
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That policy allows it to block content in specific countries if tweets violate local laws.
For new members from the ex-communist block, Article 5 is mainly an insurance policy against Russia.
In his first term, however, Obama practiced a policy of appeasement, failing to block the expansion of gun rights or promote gun control.
The GOP also plans to block several other Iraq-related amendments to a defense policy bill.
"A major stumbling block is the lack of cohesion and communication, between the policy makers in the relevant government departments, " says Ms Sibanda.
Since the Obama administration seeks to empower all of these organizations, at a minimum, such an Israeli policy will embolden Obama's political opponents to block his policies by curtailing US funding of these bodies.
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The real agenda is different, and worse, however: It is about getting buy-in from legislators for the President's policy of global denuclearization - for which New START is said to be an important building block.
But he accused the European Council of trying to block the reforms, and warned that the "untenable" situation risked derailing reform of the Common Fisheries Policy.
President Bush's boldest policy move on health care reform so far could be the veto he used this morning to block a bipartisan bill reauthorizing and expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program, which offers free or low-cost health insurance to children in low-income families.
In return, he bowed to a plan stitched up between pan-European socialists and the European People's Party, the main conservative block in the EU, to give the council presidency to someone from the centre right and the foreign-policy job to the centre left.
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