Monthly Archives: July 2010
The President’s $58.8 billion International Affairs Budget request has a major role to play in how effective the United States can be in bolstering exports and competing in the global marketplace.
As part of its continuing engagement with Muslim-majority countries, the State Department’s Special Representative to Muslim Communities Farah Pandith tomorrow will hold a conversation at the New America Foundation on the United States’ engagement with Muslim communities around the world. The discussion will be moderated by Cheryl Benton, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of [...]
Continuing the Administration’s efforts to increase global engagement, especially in conflict regions, Secretary Clinton has been in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus region since Thursday, visiting allies and reassuring them of U.S. support. Clinton’s trip includes stops in Georgia and Ukraine, as well as in Armenia and Azerbaijan, where tensions have risen in recent months [...]
1. House Cuts International Affairs Budget
2. House Approves One-Year “Budget Deemer”
3. House Finishes FY10 Supplemental; Heads Back to Senate
4. Details of House State-Foreign Operations Subcommittee Bill
The House Foreign Affairs Committee this week began circulating a draft version of The Global Partnerships Act of 2010, legislation which would replace the complex and outdated Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. The discussion draft includes the preamble to the bill, as well as pieces of the first section on Reducing Global Poverty and Alleviating [...]
Underscoring the growing importance of global food security, the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee approved a draft FY 2011 spending bill yesterday that increases funding for international food aid. This funding complements the House State-Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee’s approval of a draft spending bill with $1 billion for the President’s Feed the Future initiative to combat [...]
Yesterday the House State-Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee passed via voice vote an FY11 draft bill that cuts $4 billion, or 7%, from President Obama’s International Affairs Budget request. CQ quoted the USGLC’s press release as “voic[ing] disappointment with the reduced funding relative to the president’s request. ‘Now is not the time to short change our [...]
