For years the House Foreign Affairs Committee, unlike its more visible counterpart in the Senate, has seemed more like a branch of the State Department than an independent representative of Congress. Said one influential member: "The first question that used to be asked in this committee was: Why are we doing this? The Administration didn't ask for it."
After such a long career of institutional obsequiousness, it came as a particular surprise when the committee last week voted to cut off aid to two dictatorships, those of Greece and Pakistan. In both cases two Administrations have weaved and waffled along an...
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