Congress and NATO Expansion - 1997
Hearings
NOMINATION OF SECRETARY OF STATE-DESIGNATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
JANUARY 8, 1997 SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE
CONFIRMATION OF WILLIAM S. COHEN AS SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
JANUARY 22, 1997 - SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE
Fiscal Year 1998 National Defense Authorization Request
February 26, 1997 House Appropriations National Security Subcommittee
Partnership for Freedom
March 11, 1997 - House International Relations Committee
- Richard Morningstar Special Adviser to the President and Secretary of State on Assistance to the New Independent States.
U.S. RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA AND THE NEWLY INDEPENDENT STATES
March 12, 1997 - House International Relations Committee
- James Collins, State Department ambassador-at-large for the Newly Independent States
Human rights and NATO enlargement
24 April 1997 - Joint Congressional Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
- Ambassador Grigore-Kalev Stoicescu of Estonia,
- Ambassador Ojars Kalnins of Latvia
- Ambassador Alfonsas Eidintas of Lithuania
Flank Agreement to the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE)Treaty
29 April 1997 Senate Foreign Relations Committee
- Walt Slocombe, USD (Policy)
- VADM Redd (J-5)
- BG Gary M. Rubus, deputy director for international negotiations Joint Chiefs of Staff.
- Lynn Davis, under secretary of state for arms control and
international security policy.
AID TO NIS, EAST EUROPE
06 May 1997 Senate Appropriations subcommittee on foreign operations
07 May 1997 Senate Foreign Relations European affairs subcommittee
- Thomas Dine assistant administrator for Europe and the New Independent States at USAID
- Richard L. Morningstar Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State
on Assistance to the New Independent States
Support for East European Democracy (SEED)
May 7, 1997 Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on European Affairs
- James H. Holmes Coordinator for East European Assistance U.S. Department of State
NATO Expansion
July 17, 1997 House National Security Committee
- Opening Statement of Chairman Floyd D. Spence
- Walter Slocombe, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
- John Kornblum Assistant Secretary of State for European and
Canadian Affairs
- Fred Ikle, Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
- Peter Rodman, Former National Security Council Staff Member
- Other Outside Witness To Be Determined
NATO expansion
17 July 1997 - House National Security Committee
- Madeleine K. Albright, Secretary of State
NATO ENLARGEMENT
October 9, 1997 - Senate Foreign Relations Committee
NATO Enlargement Costs
10/21/97 Senate Committee on Appropriations
NATO Enlargement Costs and DOD Readiness Impact
10/22/97 Senate Committee on Appropriations
The merits of enlarging NATO
10/22/1997 Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
GAO Studies on NATO Enlargement Costs
10/23/97 Senate Committee on Appropriations
NATO Enlargement - costs, benefits and burden sharing of NATO enlargement
10/28/1997 - Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
NATO Enlargement Costs
October 29, 1997 - Senate Budget Committee
NATO Enlargement - NATO-Russian relations
10/30/1997 - Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
- Thomas Pickering Under Secretary of State
- Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State
Public views on NATO enlargement
11/5/1997 - Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Floor Debate
- TRIBUTE TO THE PEOPLE OF LITHUANIA Mr. SHIMKUS and Mr COX of California (House of Representatives - February 13, 1997)
- COMMEMORATION OF THE 79TH ANNIVERSARY OF LITHUANIAN INDEPENDENCE HON. DAVID E. BONIOR in the House of Representatives TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1997
- HUNGARY'S PROGRESS TOWARD NATO MEMBERSHIP Mr. BIDEN.(Senate - March 05, 1997)
- LITHUANIA Mr. DURBIN (Senate - March 13, 1997)
- BRINGING RUSSIA INTO THE WESTERN WORLD Mr. Horn of California (House of Representatives - March 18, 1997)
- BYE-BYE NATO HON. DAVID R. OBEY in the House of Representatives TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1997 [FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES, APR. 14, 1997](BY THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN)
Legislation and Reports
Other Material
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