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U.S. citizens detained abroad still face tax fines. Lawmakers want to change that

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When journalist Jason Rezaian returned to the U.S. in 2016 after being wrongfully imprisoned in Iran for 544 days, he got a surprise from the U.S. government. “I got one of those bills from the IRS saying, you owe this much on this year, you owe this much on this year because of failure to pay on time — here's the interest that's accrued,” he told NPR. The bill was for more than…

House Foreign Affairs Committee Unanimously Passes Rep. Titus’s U.S.-China Science and Technology Oversight Bill

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today Congresswoman Dina Titus (NV-01) released the following statement after the House Foreign Affairs Committee, on which she serves as a senior member, unanimously passed her bill to create greater oversight around U.S.-China science and technology agreements. “Today the House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously passed my bill to increase oversight of science…

Reps. Titus, Kean Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Protect Semiconductor Supply Chains from Authoritarians

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Washington, DC – Today Representatives Dina Titus (D-NV) and Tom Kean, Jr. (R-NJ), members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, introduced the bipartisan Protecting Semiconductor Supply Chain Materials from Authoritarians Act. By amending the Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014, this legislation would establish a working group for reporting on the semiconductor supply chain disruptions…

Rep. Dina Titus Statement on Transfer of Cluster Munitions to Ukraine

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Washington, DC – Today Congresswoman Dina Titus (NV-01), a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Unexploded Ordinance (UXO)/Demining Caucus, issued the following statement on the Biden Administration’s plan to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine: "By steadfastly supporting Ukraine, the United States is standing not only for Ukrainian victory but American…