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.
This flim-flam is reminiscent of the Clinton Administration's assurance that a new technology transfer regime would replace the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls, COCOM.
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.
Because of its direct applicability to military purposes, such technology is currently prohibited for transfer to the Soviet bloc under controls imposed by the Coordinating Committee on Multilateral Export Controls.
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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.
Even taking into account the wholesale decontrol of militarily relevant technology announced by the Coordinating Committee on Multilateral Export Controls (COCOM) last week, the transfer of dual-use nuclear-related systems and know-how would appear to represent a breathtaking departure from prudent technology security policies.
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.
One particularly outspoken opponent of detainee transfer to Standish has been Rep. Peter Hoekstra, Michigan Republican, the ranking member on the Intelligence Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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