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Key Committee Chairs
Shape Foreign Policy
Washington (JTA) — With Re-
publicans in control of the gavel
in both chambers of Congress for
the first time in decades, a com-
bination of familiar faces and new
personalities are emerging as
powerbrokers on issues of
concern to the Jewish communi-
ty•
The following is a list of some
of the key committee chairs who
will be shaping policy on issues
from foreign aid to welfare re-
form:
Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., a
staunch supporter of Israel in re-
cent years who has also been an
outspoken opponent of foreign aid
to other nations, will serve as
chairman of the Senate Interna-
tional Relations Committee, for-
merly called the Foreign
Relations Committee. Mr. Helms
has called the Middle East peace
process a "fraud."
Rep. Benjamin Gilman, R-
N.Y., one of 33 Jews in the new
Congress, will be Helms' coun-
terpart in the House. Mr. Gilman
has strong pro-Israel ties and has
consistently championed the
cause of aid to Israel. In an effort
to ensure his leadership over Mid-
dle East policy in the new House,
Gilman dissolved the Middle East
and Europe Subcommittee. Un-
der new Republican rules, Mr.
Gilman, as chair of the House In-
ternational Relations Commit-
tee, would not have been able to
chair the subcomittee as well.
Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.,
will chair the Senate Foreign Op-
erations Appropriations Sub-
committee, which is responsible
for writing the actual foreign aid
spending bill.
Mr. McConnell's proposal to
drastically reduce foreign aid,
which he unveiled last month,
leaves aid to the Middle East in-
tact.
Rep. Sonny Callahan, R-Ala.,
will serve as Mr. McConnell's
counterpart as chairman of the
House Foreign Operations Ap-
propriations Subcommittee. Mr.
Callahan, who has never voted
in favor of a foreign aid bill, could
pose problems for foreign assis-
tance. But advocates here remain
optimistic in light of statements
by Mr. Callahan's aide that as
chairman he will now "take a
hard look at changing his posi-
tion" on foreign aid.
Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo.,
will rise to head the Judiciary
Subcommittee on Immigration
and Refugees, a move that many
Jewish leaders fear will lead to a
cut in the number of immigrants
and refugees allowed into the
United States each year.
Mr. Simpson for years has ad-
vocated cutting the numbers of
refugees from the former Soviet
Union.
On the domestic front, the rise
of many conservative lawmakers
has many in the Jewish commu-
nity who champion liberal caus-
es worried.
Rep. Clay Shaw, R-Fla., will
head the House Ways and Means
committee responsible for welfare
reform. Mr. Shaw will spearhead
GOP proposals to end the enti-
tlement status for welfare pro-
grams, which enables anyone
who meets eligibility require-
ments to receive benefits. Under
Republican proposals, these pro-
grams would be subject to the an-
nual appropriations process.
Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, R-
ican., will chair the Labor and
Human Resources Committee.
She will spearhead the welfare
reform debates in the Senate.
More moderate than her House
counterparts, Ms. Kassebaum
has expressed reservations about
many aspects of the House pro-
posals, including those that would
cut off aid to children on welfare.
Jim Istook, R-Okla., has been
tapped as the unofficial school
prayer kingpin for the 104th Con-
gress . Although moderate Re-
publicans are increasing the
pressure on the new House
Speaker, Newt Gingrich, R-Ga.,
to shelve the school prayer debate
until next year, Mr. Istook has
vowed to press ahead for a vote
on a constitutional amendment
in the House by July 4.
On the question of a balanced
budget amendment, Mr. Gingrich
and other Republican Party lead-
ers will spearhead the effort. The
full House is expected to debate
a balanced budget amendment
as early as this month.
Jewish Woman
Assaulted Again
Rome (JTA) — A Norwegian
Jewish woman who last summer
was the victim of an apparent
anti-Semitic attack has been as-
saulted again.
Myriam Geelmuyden was
found unconscious and with her
face cut near the doorway of her
home in the central Italian town
of Assisi.
Ms. Geelmuyden told police
she had opened the door to a
young man who claimed to be de-
livering a telegram, but who in-
stead attacked her, cutting her
face in two places.
Ms. Geelmuyden, a writer, said
she believed that her attacker
may have been one of three
youths who assaulted her in the
street last August.