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On April 16, 2008, Global Solutions' chief executive officer Don Kraus participated in a panel discussion on the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea sponsored by the Washington DC Bar Association's International Law Section and the American Society of International Law. Mr. Kraus was on a panel with Doug Bandow, Competetive Free Enterprise Institutie, Steven Groves, Heritage Foundat...
Read Governor Sarah Palin's letter of support for the Law of the Sea Download the Law of the Sea Briefing book (PDF). This 124 page document includes: Talking Points and Background Info What U.S. Officials are Saying Organizational and Business Support Law of the Sea in the Media Links to More Informa...
On April 13, 2006 119 members of the House of Representatives signed a letter to Secretary of State Rice strongly urging the appointment of a special envoy to Sudan. This envoy would focus on ending the genocide in Darfur and would help preserve the fragile North-South peace agreement. The letter was circulated by Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA), who serves as chairman of both the Congressional Human Rig...
On May 23rd, Citizens for Global Solutions, along with a diverse group of 33 additional organizations, urged lawmakers tasked with producing the final version of the FY06 Supplemental Appropriations bill (H.R. 4939) to maintain $129.8 million in funding included for UN peacekeeping to help pay for a new UN mission to Darfur and to address the current shortfall in U.S. contributions to UN peac...
Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) Chair Joe Biden (D- DE) introduced S. 392 to “ensure payment of assessments for United Nations peacekeeping operations for the 2005 through 2008 time period.” The legislation authorizes Congress to pay up to 27.1% of the U.N.’s peacekeeping bill. It is a significant step towards permanently lifting a 25% “cap” imposed on U.S. contributions to U...
On March 23rd the Senate unanimously approved the Smith-Dodd Amendment to the FY08 Senate Budget Resolution. This amendment restores a previous $2.2 billion cut to the International Affairs Budget. This matches the full Administration request for the budget at $36.5 billion. In an email sent to Senate Foreign Policy staffers, Don Kraus, Chief Executive Officer at Citizens for Global Solutions, sa...
On March 5th Representative Albert Wynn of Maryland introduced H.Res.213 in the House of Representatives. This bill, which Citizens for Global Solutions helped to draft, expresses the sense of the House that “a United Nations Emergency Peace Service [UNEPS] capable of intervening in the early stages of a humanitarian crisis could save millions of lives, billions of dollars, and is in the in...
On March 21, Capitol Hill featured an Al Gore double-header. The former Vice President and recent Oscar winner testified on climate change issues before both House and Senate committees. The day began with a joint committee hearing of the House subcommittees on Energy and Air Quality and Energy and the Environment. After a host of warm welcomes from committee members, Gore stressed the urgent need...
On January 9th, Citizens for Global Solutions learned that Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, would offer a motion to remove an important provision of a bill designed to implement recommendations of the 9/11 Commission. The provision urged the president to work with the United Nations Security Council to develop a resolution to authoriz...
On October 17, President Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act Of 2006. The law grants the president far-reaching powers to detain persons indefinitely, without normal judicial oversight, allows for a flexible interpretation and application of the Geneva Conventions in U.S. interrogation practices and strips the rights of habeas corpus from detainees classified as enemy combatants. ...