See below for a guest post from MFAN Partner Gregory Adams, Director of Oxfam America’s Aid Effectiveness Team, on Congressman Berman’s efforts to update the Foreign Assistance Act. This post originally appeared on The Hill’s Congress blog. For most Americans, time travel is the stuff of science fiction. But the men and women who deliver … Continue reading Back to the Future
We commend House Committee on Foreign Affairs (HCFA) Ranking Member Howard Berman (D-CA) for introducing a discussion draft of the Global Partnerships Act of 2011. The draft legislation lays the foundations for a serious dialogue between the Congress, the Executive Branch, and civil society to reach consensus on legislation to replace America’s outdated and ineffective jumble of foreign assistance statutes. The reforms proposed by Rep. Berman build on the work the last two Presidents – and Republicans and Democrats currently serving on HCFA – have done to make our efforts to alleviate poverty, improve health, and drive economic growth in poor countries more effective and accountable.
See below for a guest post from Christopher J. Elias, President and CEO of MFAN Partner PATH on the severity of House of Representatives-proposed cuts to the 150 account, particularly looking at the impact such cuts would have on global health programs worldwide.
In his eleven terms in Congress, Rep. Moran has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to the developing world through his legislative endeavors. A proponent of comprehensive foreign assistance, he was a cosponsor both on the Initiating Foreign Assistance Reform Act of 2009 and the Global Poverty Act of 2007.
To this point, Rep. Baldwin has been quoted in saying, “America’s reason for maintaining her superpower status must be to export the best of our democratic system of governance and the hope of the American Dream to the rest of the world.”
See below for our latest Congressional Caucus for Effective Foreign Assistance (CCEFA) profile of the Congressman from Washington, Jim McDermott. We’ve already profiled the Co-Chairs Ander Crenshaw and Adam Smith, as well as Representatives Keith Ellison, Denny Rehberg, Laura Richardson, Dennis Ross, Aaron Schock, Lynn Woolsey, and Hank Johnson. Stay tuned for more!
See below for our latest Congressional Caucus for Effective Foreign Assistance (CCEFA) profile of the Congressman from Georgia, Hank Johnson. We’ve already profiled the Co-Chairs Ander Crenshaw and Adam Smith, as well as Representatives Keith Ellison, Denny Rehberg, Laura Richardson, Dennis Ross, Aaron Schock, and Lynn Woolsey. Stay tuned for more!
See below for our latest Congressional Caucus for Effective Foreign Assistance (CCEFA) profile of the Congresswoman from California, Lynn Woolsey. We’ve already profiled the Co-Chairs Ander Crenshaw and Adam Smith, as well as Representatives Keith Ellison, Denny Rehberg, Laura Richardson, Dennis Ross, and Aaron Schock. Stay tuned for more!
In a letter obtained by The Washington Post, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that she will urge a veto if a House Foreign Affairs committee bill that outlines severe restrictions and cuts to foreign assistance programs reaches the White House.
The severe cuts to U.S. foreign assistance proposed yesterday by the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations (SFOPS) would fall hardest on the world’s poorest people, millions of whom are alive and thriving today because of U.S. leadership on international development over the last decade.
