Bill Clinton and Bill Gates on the Hill
Bill Gates, Co-Chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, was on Capitol Hill yesterday discussing “new directions in global health” before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. His Foundation’s Living Proof Project highlights the many successes of U.S.-funded global health initiatives, and Gates yesterday offered his important advice to the Committee: “As you and your colleagues in both chambers consider the President’s Fiscal Year 2011 International Affairs budget request, I urge you to be mindful of the many successes U.S. foreign assistance has achieved and equally aware of the many challenges that persist.” Former President Bill Clinton also testified before the committee, noting that helping the world’s poorest tackle their health problems “is intrinsically good for America’s foreign policy.”
The Senate Foreign Relations confirmation hearings for Elizabeth L. Littlefield to become the President of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and Carolyn Radelet to become Deputy Director of the Peace Corps will be at 2:30 p.m. today.
