ABSTRACT
This article reviews the unique congressional role in foreign policy and assistance programs to East and Central Europe. It puts forth the thesis that policy leadership in these areas from 1989 to 1991 largely emanated from the Congress, not the executive branch. It further reviews the role of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee and the foreign assistance policy of this region and raises questions concerning the assistance programs and their future direction.
