U.S. lawmakers last week voted to prohibit Defense Department contracts with a Russian company that supplies weapons to Syria. The lawmakers’ intent was clear: No funds “may be used to enter into a contract” with Rosoboronexport, Russia’s state-run arms dealer,...
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Russia's Rosoboronexport state arms trader has a contract to supply weapons to Syria, despite international calls to halt arms deliveries to Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime.
Russian Firm Gets Symbolic Ban
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President Barack Obama, second right, Timothy F. Geithner, U.S. treasury secretary, left, House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio, second left, and Harry Reid, a Democratic Senator from Nevada, during a meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington on Nov. 16, 2012.
Washington Daybook: Obama, Boehner Still Stymied
President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner remain stymied in negotiations over the fiscal cliff. The two men met for almost an hour yesterday, their third third meeting aimed at finding ways to avoid more than $600 billion in...
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New Jersey Commissioner of the Department of Transportation, James Simpson, second left, Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Porotection, Bob Martin, right, and Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, third right, walk with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, center left, past damaged homes along the Atlantic Ocean on Nov. 2, 2012 in Mantoloking, N.J.
Washington Daybook: Christie Turns Lobbyist
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is in Washington to lobby Congress for a Superstorm Sandy supplemental. The White House could send emergency aid request for more than $50 billion to the Hill as early as today. Speaking of Sandy, Amtrak...
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