Monthly Archives: July 2010
1. Senate Appropriations Committee Approves FY 2011 State-Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill
2. FY 2010 Supplemental Signed by President Obama
3. Outlook for Remainder of FY 2011 Appropriations Process
Last week Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Chief Executive Officer Daniel Yohannes issued a statement outlining his strategic vision for MCC, explaining his plans to internally realign MCC to support the agency’s priorities. “A primary reason for MCC’s success is our focus on one, well-defined mission: reducing poverty through economic growth,” Dr. Yohannes said. The plan [...]
Yesterday the House passed (by a 308-114 vote) the $58.8 billion FY 2010 war and Haiti supplemental as originally passed by the Senate in late May. The supplemental now heads to the President’s desk for signature. The critically needed funding was stalled for many weeks due to partisan bickering over nearly $23 billion in domestic [...]
Like his predecessor, President Obama has made combating HIV/AIDS a priority, requesting $5.9 billion in the FY 2011 International Affairs budget, including $1 billion for the Global Fund, a slight increase over current levels. Friday marked the end of the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, where more than 20,000 delegates representing scientists, global health leaders [...]
1. House Adopts 302(b) Allocations, Restores $1.3 Billion to State-Foreign Operations Bill
2. House Increasingly Likely to Adopt Senate’s FY 2010 Supplemental Bill
The House Foreign Affairs subcommittees on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight and Africa and Global Health held a joint hearing Tuesday afternoon.
On June 29, the House Foreign Affairs Committee began circulating a draft of the Global Partnerships Act of 2010, which will establish a framework for effective, transparent, and accountable U.S. foreign assistance. The legislation is being designed to replace the complicated and outdated Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. The draft document is only the first [...]
There’s good news to report from the Hill. Yesterday, the House Appropriations Committee adopted the FY11 302(b) allocations, and voted to restore $1.3 billion of the $4 billion cut they recently made to the State-Foreign Operations bill. This brings the total allocation for the State-Foreign Operations Appropriations bill to about $54 billion in the House, [...]
The USGLC recently sat down with Nancy Powell, the Director General of the Foreign Service, to discuss the State Department’s progress and challenges in meeting the demand for not only more diplomats, but a new generation of diplomats.
House Democrats, who sought to add $22 billion in domestic spending to the pending FY 2010 war, disaster and Haiti supplemental, are indicating that they might remove that funding amid objections from Republicans and Senate Democrats. The domestic spending, which included funds for Pell grants and to avert teacher layoffs, has been a sticking point [...]
