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		<title>Two New State Dept. Positions Announced</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Talks to the Export-Import Bank</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Bills in the Senate</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Latest News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Gates, Co-Chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, was on Capitol Hill Wednesday discussing “new directions in global health” before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.  His Foundation’s Living Proof Project highlights the many successes of U.S.-funded global health initiatives, and Gates today offered his hard-earned wisdom to the Committee:
“If we continue to innovate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Clinton and Bill Gates on the Hill</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Daily GAB]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Gates, Co-Chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, was on Capitol Hill yesterday discussing “new directions in global health” before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.  His Foundation’s Living Proof Project highlights the many successes of U.S.-funded global health initiatives, and Gates yesterday offered his important advice to the Committee: “As you and your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The US in Haiti</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Impact Blog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Senate on How to Fight Terrorism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah Kaye</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Impact Blog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Politico: &#8220;Ex-generals urge Congress to fund Obama int’l affairs budget&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Amsler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Views & Voices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Ex-generals urge Congress to fund Obama int’l affairs budget”
By Laura Rozen
Politico
March 10, 2010
Joining recent calls by Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen to expand U.S. civilian capacities to reduce dependence on the military, some 50 former three and four star generals and flag officers have written [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Military Leaders Urge Congress to Support IAB</title>
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		<comments>http://www.usglc.org/2010/03/10/military-leaders-urge-congress-to-support-iab/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Daily GAB]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Global Leadership Coalition (USGC) released a letter today signed by 48 retired four- and three-star generals and flag officers calling on Congress to fully fund the President’s International Affairs Budget request. The military leaders underscore that the International Affairs Budget is “a fundamental pillar of U.S. national security and foreign policy” and state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USGLC in the Media</title>
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		<comments>http://www.usglc.org/2010/03/10/usglc-in-the-media/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Impact Blog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Military Leaders Urge Congress to Boost Development and Diplomacy</title>
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		<comments>http://www.usglc.org/2010/03/10/military-leaders-urge-congress-to-boost-development-and-diplomacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Amsler</dc:creator>
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General Michael W. Hagee, USMC (Ret.)









Admiral James M.  Loy, USGC (Ret.)



Nearly 50 retired four- and three-star generals and flag officers are calling on Congress to fully fund President Obama’s $58.5 billion International Affairs Budget request.  In a letter signed by 48 members of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition’s (USGLC) National Security Advisory Council (NSAC), [...]]]></description>
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