Monthly Archives: September 2011
Must Reads Who’s In the News USAID Chief Shah Helps Wal-Mart Open Markets in Spending Shift (Michelle Jamrisko, Bloomberg) Wal-Mart Stores Inc. executives, who had success in Guatemala since 2007 channeling locally raised crops to their stores through a public-private partnership, were finding it hard to expand to other regional markets that couldn’t offer the [...]
1. Senate Unveils FY12 Appropriations Allocations; State-Foreign Operations Funding $5 Billion Higher than House Level
2. Work of “Super Committee” Gets Underway
3. Chairwoman Ros-Lehtinen Introduces UN “Reform” Bill
This morning, USGLC National Security Advisory Council Member Gen. Hugh Shelton reflects on his experience as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the critical days after the September 11 attacks this morning with an op-ed on CNN.com, entitled “Lessons of September 12.” He discusses the important role our civilian tools of development and [...]
Sunday will mark the 10th anniversary of the horrific attacks of September 11th. Last fall, General Hugh Shelton, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1997-2001) participated in a military panel for our Washington Conference. During the discussion, he recalled the moments after 9/11 and how it was refreshing to have all the tools at his side, not just the military, to make the critical decisions going forward.
Congress Should Enact No Less than Senate Funding Level to Ensure America’s Global Leadership Washington, DC — Given the difficult fiscal climate, the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC) is pleased with the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Fiscal Year 2012 allocation for the International Affairs Budget, which provides critical funding for programs to protect America’s national security [...]
This morning, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rang the bell to open the New York Stock Exchange. As the last day the markets are open before Sunday’s ten year anniversary of the attacks of September 11, the ceremony will have special meaning. Secretary Clinton, as Senator from New York, was among the officials who opened [...]
This morning, USGLC Board Members Dan Glickman and George Rupp did a live interview on Fox News.com to follow-up on their op-ed this week. They discussed the importance of U.S. leadership in addressing the crisis in the Horn of Africa and preventing future famines of this kind. Click here to watch them in action! Also [...]
For years, the holy grail of foreign assistance reform has been a re-write of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, widely seen to be outdated and cumbersome. After 2008, then-Chairman of House Foreign Affairs Committee Howard Berman (D-CA) began to work on such a reform bill. Control of the House of Representatives switched in 2010 [...]
The Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday approved its 302(b) allocations for FY12, providing a total of $53.34 billion for State-Foreign Operations: $44.64 billion for non-war related programs and $8.7 billion for Overseas Contingency Operations programs. This is $5 billion higher than the House allocation for non-war programs and essentially flat compared to current funding. For international [...]
With Congress back from its August recess, action on the FY12 appropriations process will continue and the Special Joint Committee (also known as the “super committee”) will also begin deliberations. As part of the budget deal reached before recess, the committee is required to make recommendations by November 23 on how to reduce the deficit by an additional $1.5 trillion over ten years. …
