Congress as a body has little direct control over foreign relations, though the Senate shares the treaty-making power with the President.
During the process of negotiation it is customary for the President to consult with the Senate committee on foreign relations, as well as with the leaders of the senatorial majority.
For example, foreign relations, the postal service, and the coinage of money, are Federal functions.
Foreign Relations Reports), led to the writing of W.
Blaine, as Secretary of State, found no topic in foreign relations as interesting as the canal had been in his earlier term.
But in 1890 most protectionists inclined toward absolute exclusion, regardless of foreign relations, and were ready to raise the rate whenever the imports were large.
But this is vindicated by the Committee on Foreign Relations, in an elaborate report, on the ground of a peculiar provision in the treaty, as follows.
On the 7th of April, Mr. Mason, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, reported the following resolution.
He was late in his coming, Congress having been in session nearly three weeks when he arrived to find that he had been dropped from the Committee on Foreign Relations.
But at the time the personnel of the committee was such that I had despaired of securing favorable action in the committee on an amended Interstate Commerce Act, and I retired to accept the chairmanship of the Committee on Foreign Relations.
I will make some further references to the important results of the Roosevelt Administration in what I shall say in a later chapter concerning the work of the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Another delicate matter connected with the foreign relations of the United States now occupied the mind of Washington.
Nothing remained in foreign relations in respect to which Mr. Gallatin felt that he could be of much use except the northeast boundary.
His report prepared in 1808 for Mr. Campbell, chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, covered the whole ground of the American argument.
Thaddeus Stevens, passed that body, and in the Senate was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Senator Sumner regarded his position as Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations as superior to all others in Congress, while he was unquestionably the leader of the Abolition wing of the Republican party.
The message was referred to the committee on foreign relations, when a majority of them--John C.
The committee on foreign relations, of which Peter B.
For more than a century the State Department, the Department of Foreign Relations of the United States of America, has refused to take such action, and that has become the settled policy of our country.
Practically the Executive became the agent of the Senate in foreign relations and in the end he told the Senate what a good and faithful servant he had been and how scrupulously he had respected its will.
And he pleaded with the Senate not to disavow the Executive and impair its standing in the conduct of foreign relations.
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