Monthly Archives: April 2010
As the Senate Foreign Relations Committee begins mark up today of the first foreign affairs authorization bill in five years, all eight living former U.S. Secretaries of State have written a letter urging Congress not to cut the international affairs budget.
In a powerful demonstration of bipartisan unity, all eight former Secretaries of State teamed up this morning to write Congress urging them to support the President’s $58.5 billion FY 2011 International Affairs Budget request. From both Democratic and Republican Administrations, the Secretaries joined together in reiterating the critical role development and diplomacy programs play in [...]
Washington, DC — In a powerful demonstration of bipartisan unity, all eight former Secretaries of State teamed up today to write Congress urging them to support the President’s $58.5 billion FY 2011 International Affairs Budget request.
In an important sign of unity among America’s most respected diplomats, all eight former Secretaries of State have teamed up to write Congress in support of President Obama’s FY11 $58.5 billion International Affairs Budget request.
After the Senate Budget Committee took a big swipe at next year’s foreign-affairs budget, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will get a chance this week to defend President Obama’s request.
Tomorrow the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will mark up a State Department reauthorization bill: S.2971, the Foreign Relations Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011. The bill, sponsored by Chairman Kerry and Ranking Member Lugar, reauthorizes development and diplomacy programs generally and seeks to bolster State and USAID. For example, the bill would authorize [...]
At a Senate hearing and the announcement of a new World Bank trust fund last week, the Administration highlighted its view of global food security as an essential element of national and economic security as well as a humanitarian imperative. While the announcement of a new bipartisan Global Food Security Act wasn’t on the Senate [...]
Appearing Thursday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Deputy Secretary of State Jack Lew and USAID Administrator Raj Shah testified about the Obama Administration’s new approach to global food security. Dan Glickman, the Center for U.S. Global Leadership’s Chair, also testified in his role as co-chair of the Global Agricultural Development Initiative with the [...]
Appearing Tuesday before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State-Foreign Operations, USAID Administrator Raj Shah testified in support of the President’s request for $18.8 billion for USAID for FY2011, a 15% increase above FY10 funding. The hearing was a sober one, with Chairman Leahy taking a hard line on the need for fundamental reforms within the [...]
Efforts to end global hunger got a boost yesterday as Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner announced the initial contributions to a new Global Agriculture and Food Security Program fund hosted by the World Bank Group to “help the world’s poorest farmers grow more food and earn more . . . so they can lift themselves out [...]
