Monthly Archives: April 2010
The President’s FY11 Budget request seeks to make a change in how the U.S. provides security assistance, with oversight of a key program moving from the Defense Department to the State Department. On Wednesday, the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations focused on the Administration’s request for security assistance. Testifying before the Subcommittee from [...]
April 16, 2010 1. Support in Congress Builds for the International Affairs Budget As the budget and appropriations process begins to move into high gear on Capitol Hill, more than 110 Members of the House – spanning the ideological spectrum of the Democratic Caucus – have signed various letters calling on Speaker Pelosi and Budget [...]
A signature part of the International Affairs Budget and an example of modernizing U.S. foreign assistance, the Millennium Challenge Corporation has some pretty strong results under its belt. On Wednesday, MCC CEO Daniel Yohannes testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State-Foreign Operations in support of the President’s $1.28 billion request, a 16% increase above [...]
Continued U.S. engagement is vital to the stability and economic well-being of troubled regions across the globe. This is perhaps nowhere truer than in Africa, where some of the countries least responsible for global environmental concerns are likely to be hardest hit by its consequences. Testifying before the Subcommittee on African Affairs and Global Health, [...]
The U.S. civilian-military relationship in Afghanistan took center stage this week, as Deputy Secretary of State Jack Lew, USAID Administrator Raj Shah, and Commander of U.S. Central Command David Petraeus were in the region reviewing our progress with the Afghan government. On Monday, all of the principals met with Afghan President Karzai to review civ/mil [...]
While using development and diplomacy as national security tools has “not always been at the forefront of US foreign policy, under the Obama Administration and Secretary Clinton’s State Department, they are receiving unprecedented attention,” according to Maria Otero, Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs. She gave an important speech at American University on April 8 [...]
Click here to call you Senators and ask them to sign the letter urging Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) and Ranking Member Judd Gregg (R-NH) to include the President’s full request for the International Affairs Budget in the Senate Budget Resolution.
Impressive momentum is building from the Democratic Caucus on Capitol Hill, with 110 Members of the House calling on their leadership to support the President’s $58.5 billion International Affairs Budget request for FY 2011. Spanning the ideological spectrum of the caucus, Members of the Blue Dog and New Democrat Coalitions, Congressional Black and Progressive Caucuses, [...]
The well-being of developing countries around the globe is crucial to American national security, and greater U.S. engagement in the world is necessary for not just our security, but for our economic prosperity and standing in the world. Today at a discussion on the Millennium Development Goals, North American Coordinator of the United Nations Millennium [...]
Read Letters of Support From: Blue Dog Coalition Progressive Caucus New Democrats Coalition Congressional Black Caucus 31 Senators House Foreign Affairs Committee Budget Committee Members Freshmen Members Secretary Gates Secretary Clinton ANY_CHARACTER_HERE Nearly 150 Members of Congress – — ranging from Blue Dogs and Progressives in the House to a bipartisan group of 31 Senators [...]
