Take Action: Support Aid Reform
Congressman Howard Berman (D-CA) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) have introduced a bill that will begin the long process of updating America’s anti-global poverty efforts. The bill is called the Initiating Foreign Aid Reform Act, and it’s the first step of many in reforming how we do development work. By directing the president to write a new strategy, successful passage of the Berman-Kirk bill will move us closer to our goal of bringing development into the 21st century.
Next week, the House Foreign Affairs Committee will consider this critical bill, and before they do we need to make sure it has broad support, by getting as many members of Congress as possible to sign-on as co-sponsors.
American anti-poverty efforts save lives in the developing world every day, funding AIDS drugs and anti-malarial bed nets. Our commitment to development makes it possible for farmers to improve their yields, and for more children to go to school, breaking cycles of hunger and poverty.
Please call your representative, using the House switchboard at (202) 224-3121, and ask him or her to co-sponsor HR. 2139: the Initiating Foreign Aid Reform Act.
-Aaron Banks
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