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February 20, 2011These House cuts would deny food help to roughly 18 million people, argues the director of a food aid alliance. The House of Representatives has put America’s international food aid programs on the chopping block, last week slashing these...
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February 19, 2011The head of Portland-based Mercy Corps says the budget bill passed by the House of Representatives Saturday would slash foreign aid and leave the United States unable to respond to a disaster on the scale of last year’s Haiti...
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February 17, 2011What is the right foreign policy for a downsizing superpower? In the years ahead, the United States will have to take dramatic steps to curb its ever-expanding fiscal deficits. No matter what our politicians promise, this will mean both...
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February 16, 2011On Valentine’s Day, Congress received a gift from President Obama: the federal budget for fiscal year 2012. As its opening shot in what promises to be a long and hard budgetary battle, the White House requested $47 billion for...
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February 16, 2011U.S. officials and nonprofit groups are expressing alarm about the deep reductions in humanitarian assistance in the House budget bill racing through Congress, warning that it could leave millions of poor people hungry and put refugees in jeopardy in...
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February 13, 2011USA Maritime (http://www.usamaritime.org/) today released the following statement regarding the 42 percent cut of more than $800 million proposed by House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers from the President’s combined food aid budget for P.L. 480 Title II (Title II)...
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January 28, 2011Dear Mr. Secretary: The undersigned companies, labor unions and associations, including non-USA Maritime members, represent viliually every privately owned U.S.-flag vessel regularly engaged in the U.S. foreign trade. We write to express our strong support for retaining current cargo...
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December 15, 2010USA Maritime’s critical analysis of the recent study: “Food Aid and Agricultural Cargo Preference” by staff at Cornell University. (December 2010) Download PDF
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November 5, 2010Dear Messrs, Rivkin and Matsuda: At the DOT-industry meeting last Friday, USA Maritime representatives indicated that they would provide DOT with certain follow-up information to aid DOT in its application of the Cargo Preference Act of 1954, as amended,...
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