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Two New State Dept. Positions Announced

By Jordan Smith at 11 March, 2010, 6:17 pm

Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Judith McHale testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday and announced new positions to assist in promoting our diplomatic efforts around the globe.  The first position is a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Media Support in State’s Bureau of Public Affairs, which [...]

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Obama Talks to the Export-Import Bank

By Jordan Smith at 11 March, 2010, 5:35 pm

President Obama outlined the connection between overseas markets and jobs here at home when he spoke this morning at the Export-Import Bank—an entity funded from the International Affairs Budget.  In the speech, the President said:
We are rebuilding an economy where we generate more American jobs in more American industries by producing and exporting more goods [...]

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The US in Haiti

By Jordan Smith at 10 March, 2010, 6:04 pm

President Obama met with Haitian President Rene Preval today, pledging aid to the distraught nation. “The situation on the ground remains dire,” Mr. Obama said after meeting with Preval at the White House. “And people should be under no illusions that the crisis is over.” Navy officials said earlier today that the hospital ship U.S.N.S. [...]

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The Senate on How to Fight Terrorism

By Hannah Kaye at 10 March, 2010, 4:56 pm

In a Wednesday morning Senate Armed Services Subcommittee hearing on countering violent extremism, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Combating Terror Garry Reid told Senators, “the best thing you [Congress] could for us would be to expand the resources and the capacity within the diplomatic side of the house and the State [...]

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USGLC in the Media

By Jordan Smith at 10 March, 2010, 2:22 pm

USGLC is getting media attention for its letter to Congress from military leaders urging a boost in the International Affairs Budget. Among the most influential reporters in D.C., Laura Rozen of Politico writes that “[j]oining recent calls by Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen to expand [...]

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Restoring America’s Reputation

By Salim Alchurbaji at 8 March, 2010, 1:21 pm

The House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight held a hearing on March 4th entitled “Restoring America’s Reputation in the World: Why it Matters.” Chairman Russ Carnahan (D-MO) noted that international opinion of the United States and its foreign policies were at an all-time low in 2007, but, according to a [...]

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On African Development

By Jordan Smith at 8 March, 2010, 12:46 pm

Is Africa progressing? That’s the controversial assertion of two U.S. economists, who write that in the 10 years before the credit crunch began, poverty rates fell rapidly and inequality declined right across the continent. Xavier Sala-i-Martin and Maxim Pinkovskiy have published an article through America’s National Bureau of Economic Research that contradicts the views of [...]

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Rajiv Shah’s Week on the Hill

By Jordan Smith at 4 March, 2010, 6:06 pm

USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah was on Capitol Hill this week discussing the FY11 International Affairs Budget. He first appeared yesterday before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Members of the committee praised Shah for his leadership during the Haiti crisis, and other USAID efforts, and Shah outlined top priorities for USAID in the days ahead. [...]

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Rajiv Shah in the House

By Hannah Kaye at 3 March, 2010, 4:47 pm

On Wednesday, March 3, USAID Administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah appeared before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs to discuss the FY11 International Affairs Budget request. Members of the committee praised Shah for his leadership during the Haiti crisis and other USAID efforts, and Shah outlined top priorities for USAID in the days ahead. In his [...]

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Haiti: A Long-Term Development Need

By Richard Parker at 3 March, 2010, 9:10 am

As the U.S. begins aiding in the recovery efforts in Chile after the devastating earthquake there last Saturday, we should not forget the long road that still lies ahead for Haiti’s own recovery efforts.  Now that the cameras are off and the news crews have turned their attention to other natural disasters elsewhere, the real [...]

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