Douglas Kent Bereuter was born on October 6,1939 and is an American retired politician from the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States.
14 Facts About Doug Bereuter
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Doug Bereuter served in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 until 2004.
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Doug Bereuter served as the president and CEO of The Asia Foundation from 2004 to 2011 and is a member of the ReFormers Caucus at Issue One.
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Doug Bereuter worked as an urban planner with the US Department of Housing and Urban Development from 1965 to 1966.
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Doug Bereuter is a member of the Council on Foreign Affairs and the World Affairs Council of Northern California.
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Doug Bereuter was a member of the Nebraska Legislature's appropriations committee.
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Doug Bereuter announced that he would not seek re-election for a 14th term, and retired from the US House of Representatives on August 31,2004 to immediately become the president and CEO of The Asia Foundation, where he served until retirement at the beginning of 2011.
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Doug Bereuter served a total of nearly 10 years on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, retiring as its Vice Chairman.
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Doug Bereuter chaired the House delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly for ten years, retiring after two years as its president.
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Doug Bereuter had leadership roles in parliamentary exchanges with the European Parliament, Japan, Korea, China, and the United Kingdom.
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Doug Bereuter was co-author of the Bereuter-Levin Amendment, which made possible the passage of the act granting Permanent Normal Trading Relations with China.
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Doug Bereuter was responsible for starting the USAID Farmer-to-Farmer technical assistance program, which has taken thousands of American volunteers abroad.
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In 2004, Doug Bereuter endorsed state Senator Curt Bromm, Speaker of the Nebraska Legislature, as his successor in the US House of Representatives.
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Shortly before he left Congress, Doug Bereuter released a statement calling the Iraq War, which he had previously supported, "a mistake," and strongly criticized a "massive failure" of pre-war intelligence.