Foreign Economics and the National Economic Council
Please discuss the following issue:
You are a senior official at the State Department and you have been assigned the responsibility of developing a memo to the White House articulating the Department’s position on a piece of legislation that is currently being considered by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has requested the Administration’s views of the legislation before it sends the legislation to the floor for a vote. The White House has also asked for the views of the Defense, Commerce, Homeland Security, Labor and Health and Human Services Departments.
