United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs

• Republican leaders are sharply divided over how the United States should position itself in the world.
• While some Trump supporters are pressing for the U.S. to pull back from world affairs, more traditional Republicans are calling for robust international engagement.
• Ever since the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s, most Republican leaders have supported an active U.S. role in the world.
• In my own research on U.S. foreign policy, I have found that most Republican politicians continued to support international engagement after the Cold War ended in 1991.
• The Republican primary campaign will help determine the GOP’s foreign policy platform and course.

Trump’s split from the GOP

• As president, he pulled out of several international treaties and councils that are part of the United Nations.
• He toyed with exiting NATO and tried to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
• He has promised to resolve the conflict within “24 hours” by talking with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
• Trump, for example, proposed in each year of his presidency to slash the State Department’s budget by about one-third.

Republicans distancing themselves from Trump

• Nine Republican candidates have qualified for the Aug. 23 presidential debate, and eight of them – all but Trump – are likely to be on the debate stage.
• Trump has said that he will not participate in the debates.
• While the top GOP presidential candidates are largely united in favoring a tough stance toward China, they differ sharply on Ukraine.
• Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, Senator Tim Scott and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, advocate strong U.S. support for Ukraine.

The topic is: Ukraine

• When foreign policy comes up in Milwaukee or at future Republican primary debates, it will be telling whether candidates say they still strongly back U.S. efforts to help Ukraine, or not.
• If some of them hold firm on their support, it will be a sign that the Republican debate over foreign policy remains alive.
• Beyond the war in Ukraine, America’s global role is at stake this election season.
• If they make this case effectively, the GOP debate over foreign policy will be primed to continue well beyond 2024.

• WASHINGTON, Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- C5 Capital , the specialist venture capital firm that invests in cybersecurity, space, and energy security, appointed Tom Sheehy as Operating Partner.
• Tom will lead C5's newly launched Public Policy Advisory Board, which will play a valuable role supporting C5 portfolio companies seeking to partner with the public sector.
• The advisory board consists of other experts with public policy and government contracting experience, including former members of Congress and State Department officials.
• Andre Pienaar, CEO and Founder of C5 Capital, said: "Tom's decades of experience in public policy in Congress is invaluable for the growth of our portfolio companies.

• Millions of people were killed [in 1971] in what is now Bangladesh, and what was then East Pakistan.
• And it was, in my opinion, a genocide just like other genocides like the Holocuast happened.
• Saleem Reza Noor, whose family members were brutally murdered by armed Islamists in 1971, expressed relief after 51 years of despair.
• Saha added, "Even now, these extremist groups are persecuting indigenous religious minorities in Bangladesh."

• WASHINGTON, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mary T. Boyle was sworn in as a Commissioner for the Consumer Product Safety Commission today.
• Boyle has served in leadership roles at the CPSC for more than a decade, including as General Counsel.
• In addition, over the years, Boyle has been instrumental in advancing the agency's enforcement efforts.
• Federal law prohibits any person from selling products subject to a Commission ordered recall or a voluntary recall undertaken in consultation with the CPSC.