Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., spoke on Fox News this morning about Republican presidential candidates’ comments on foreign policy, while also answering questions about a potential vice presidential run and immigration.
Rajiv Shah, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), told a House Appropriations subcommittee Wednesday that the passage of the House Continuing Resolution would have a devastating impact on developing areas around the world.
To the State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs subcommittee, Shah said: More…
Should the U.S. House GOP proposal to cut family-planning funding, as laid out in the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011, or HR 1, pass, international recipients of family-planning aid will likely see high increases in maternal deaths, unintended pregnancies and abortion, according to a Guttmacher Institute report released More…
A new Bloomberg News poll indicates that nearly 8 in 10 Americans believe that legislators should reach a compromise on the federal budget in order to avert a government shutdown.
Via Ezra Klein, Third Way has a great proposal (PDF) for an itemized receipt to go along with each taxpayers’ return:
After nearly 11 months of allowing the top U.S. foreign-development bureau go without permanent leadership, the Obama administration decided Tuesday afternoon on the unconventional choice of Rajiv Shah, a 36-year old undersecretary of the Department of Agriculture and More…
Some days they make laws, and some days they break them.
Five House Democrats were arrested Monday during a protest at the Sudanese embassy in Washington. The lawmakers — Reps. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), Donna Edwards (D-Md.), Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.) and John Lewis (D-Ga.) — were demonstrating against More…
So why the holdup on the Kerry-Lugar Pakistan aid bill? Because Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, had to first restore $4 billion in funding to the overall foreign-aid budget from which the money for Pakistan — $1.5 billion in the forthcoming fiscal year — will More…
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