Unfortunately, as things stand now, the only impediments to the early transfer of a true national asset to a potentially problematic foreign owner are two, all-too-often pro forma bureaucratic exercises: the grant of a Federal Communications Commission license to transfer ownership and a possible Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) review.
We had a Joint Committee on Accelerating the Transfer of Security Responsibility Report.
The company says county-level forest bureaus signed off on the transfer of trees, but the committee struggled to verify these agreements.
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Lord Mayhew, a member of John Major's cabinet, now chairs the committee that vets the transfer of senior civil servants to business.
Earlier this month John Biggs, the Labour chairman of the London Assembly's budget and performance committee, said the ownership transfer should have been completed last October.
Among other means of doing so, he should direct that contested technology transfer issues get formally considered by an interagency committee chaired by his Deputy National Security Advisor.
So that is -- again, reviewing those files, and if a court determines that there's no legal right to hold them, then we have worked with other countries to find -- either their home countries or third-party countries -- to transfer detainees that courts have decided or the committee has decided should not be held.
The Legislative Competence Order (LCO), which would transfer the powers, was approved by Whitehall departments, a committee of AMs and publicly endorsed by assembly government Deputy ousing minister Jocelyn Davies.
The authority has provisionally agreed to transfer ownership of the site to the trust, although the deal is still subject to committee approval.
The committee generally also studies another monthly indicator of economy-wide activity, personal income less transfer payments, in real terms, adjusted for price changes.
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