The Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act (H.R.1677) would undermine its stated goal to encourage a negotiated political solution to halt the slaughter of the Syrian people. Ultimately, as countless U.S. officials and Syria experts have pointed out, a political settlement is the only way to stop the killing.
The United States must move towards non-military solutions to its foreign policy challenges.
Our government must stop providing foreign security forces with millions of dollars of training and weapons with little oversight, accountability, or success metrics.
Let’s remember that our work to undo the threads of slavery and act to address racism starts with the work of ending these institutional systems of control.
War is not working. We know this much as we watch the carnage in Syria, the collapse of Afghanistan, the ongoing consequences of the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the spread of violent extremist attacks.
FCNL’s Jose Aguto, our Legislative Secretary for Sustainable Energy and Environment, was in Paris for the international climate summit, also known as the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties 21 (UNFCCC COP21).
Monday night (October 26, 2015), House and Senate budget negotiators agreed on a deal – a budget that will cover FY 2016 (which started October 1 this year) and FY 2017.
On February 12, 2015, Congress reintroduced a vital piece of legislation which, if adopted into law, may well be the most important advancement for criminal justice in the 114th Congress.
With Aleppo burning and war drums beating, it’s more urgent than ever to continue to press for the only way to stop the bloodshed in Syria: an immediate negotiated ceasefire, and ultimately, a political solution to end the crisis.
We Kenyans are excited at the news that President Barack Obama will be visiting our country in late July and the impact the visit could have on how our two countries view each other.
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