Such unwieldiness combines with only brief forays to Brussels by ministers to hand vast dollops of power to their officials, especially to the Committee of Permanent Representatives, better known by its French acronym, Coreper (see our next article).
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Indeed, I have been touched and gratified by the numerous expressions of encouragement and support I have received from many governments -- most particularly from the African Group, whose Permanent Representatives last week issued a public appeal for me to stay on.
UN: TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN AT HEADQUARTERS, 22 MARCH 2001
We acknowledged the consistent and productive engagement among the Committee of Permanent Representatives to ASEAN (CPR), the U.S. Mission to ASEAN and the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta, and are committed to work together to boost the capacity of ASEAN to address regional challenges.
WHITEHOUSE: Joint Statement of the 4th ASEAN-U.S. Leaders' Meeting
The Seminar took place in the presence of Mr. Nimrod Barkan, Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of Israel to UNESCO, Mr. David Killion, Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of the United States to UNESCO, Ms. Tatian Balykina, Representative of the Permanent Delegation of the Russian Federation to UNESCO, and Representatives from the Permanent Delegations of Germany and Belgium to UNESCO.
The controversial Ryan budget passed by the House of Representatives makes those cuts permanent for all earners, and then cuts taxes even lower for the wealthiest Americans.
Representatives of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany began a fresh round of talks with Iran over its nuclear plans, this time in Baghdad, hoping to persuade its government to agree to stop enriching its uranium to the high grade that would enable it to make a bomb.
Wood said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had been in touch with representatives of the four other permanent five nations and would make more calls on Monday.
The People's Republic of China won a big victory late last month, as the House of Representatives voted to grant it permanent normal trade relations when it enters the World Trade Organization.
"Proposals to Criminalize the Unauthorized Disclosure of the Identities of Undercover United States Intelligence Officers and Agents, " Hearings before the Subcommittee on Legislation of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, U.S. House of Representatives, 30 January 1980, p. 66.
Representatives should also have longer terms in office, he thinks, to reduce the permanent turnover that pits greenhorn legislators against savvy and entrenched lobbyists.
The issue is now at issue in conference because the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, which has exclusive jurisdiction over intelligence authorization matters in the House of Representatives, has chosen to press for retirement of the SR-71.
One more example of how congressional Republicans have lost their political moorings--look at their spending record and their inability, so far, to extend or make permanent the prosperity-producing tax cuts of 2003--was the recent vote by the House of Representatives to severely restrict so-called 527 groups (so named for the section of the tax code under which they are incorporated).
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