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Whereas on October 21, 2003, the Committee on International Relations, United States Congress, House of Representatives, Chairman Henry Hyde held formal hearings in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, DC entitled: Reassessing the U.S. Economic Relationship with China. Mrs. Jonna Bianco, President of the American Bondholders Foundation, was requested by the International Relations Committee to testify before the Committee. Ms. Bianco spoke about the activities of the American Bondholders Foundation (ABF) representing the consolidated claims of U.S. citizens who are holders of sovereign bonds issued by the government of China and on which that government has defaulted and continues to evade payment. Ms. Bianco ... presented the International Offset Structure enabling countries that have outstanding debts owed to the People's Republic of China to acquire these bonds discounted from the ABF and then utilize the bonds under full contractual value to extinguish such debts owed to the PRC;
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MIAMI, July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The United States House of Representatives has passed DR-CAFTA, a free trade agreement between the United States and the five Central American countries including the Dominican Republic. The House voted by a margin of 217-215 to ratify the agreement, which the U.S. Senate voted to ratify on June 30. The bill now goes to President George W. Bush to sign before it becomes U.S. law.
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Gerald R. Ford died on December 26, 2006, at 93 years old -- making him the longest-lived president in the history of the United States. He passed away in his home of Rancho Mirage, CA, and was survived by his wife, Betty, and his four grown children, Michael, John, Steven, and Susan. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
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Vice President Ford is sworn in as the 38th President of the United States by Chief Justice Warren Burger; Betty Ford looks on.When Nixon resigned in the wake of the Watergate scandal on August 9, 1974, Ford assumed the presidency. Immediately after taking the oath of office in the East Room of the White House, he spoke to the assembled audience in a speech broadcast live to the nation. Ford noted the peculiarity of his position: "I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your president by your ballots, and so I ask you to confirm me as your president with your prayers."[33] On August 20 Ford nominated former New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller to fill the vice presidency he had vacated. Rockefeller was confirmed by the House and Senate.[34]
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Members of the House must be citizens of the United States, at least 25 years of age, and reside in the state which they represent. They are elected for a term of two years. Elections alternately coincide with the presidential election; when they do not, they are called mid-term elections.
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White House to hold flu response exercise - - The White House is hosting a top-level exercise this weekend to test the federal government's plans for responding to any flu pandemic outbreak in the United States. The four-hour "tabletop exercise" is being held Saturday at the White House and will be attended by Cabinet secretaries and other top government officials, but not the president, White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Wednesday. <more> Dec. 7, 2005 AP
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