{"id":340734,"date":"2010-02-19T16:24:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T21:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f24\/letter-president-congressional-committee-leadership-39694\/"},"modified":"2010-02-19T16:24:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T21:24:05","slug":"letter-from-the-president-to-congressional-committee-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/340734","title":{"rendered":"Letter from the President to Congressional Committee Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>02.19.10 12:16 PM<\/p>\n<p>TEXT OF A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT<br \/>\nTO THE CHAIRMEN AND RANKING MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE COMMITTEES <br \/>\nON ARMED SERVICES AND APPROPRIATIONS AND THE CHAIRMEN AND <br \/>\nRANKING MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS <br \/>\nAND THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS<\/p>\n<p>February 18, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Dear Mr. Chairman: (Dear Representative:) (Dear Senator:) In response to the requirement of section 1116 of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2009 (Public Law 111-32), and in order to keep the Congress fully informed, I provide the attached report related to Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>My Administration completed a thorough policy review last November, and I announced a new approach at West Point on December 1. We are now in the early weeks of implementing this policy and therefore do not believe further adjustments are required at this time.<\/p>\n<p>I assure you of my Administration&#8217;s commitment to the successful implementation of this policy.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\nBARACK OBAMA<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/letter-president-congressional-committee-leadership\" >White House.gov Press Office Feed<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>02.19.10 12:16 PM TEXT OF A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT TO THE CHAIRMEN AND RANKING MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE COMMITTEES ON ARMED SERVICES AND APPROPRIATIONS AND THE CHAIRMEN AND RANKING MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS February 18, 2010 Dear Mr. Chairman: (Dear Representative:) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}