A few weeks ago, a few House Republicans introduced H.R. 1613, the innocuous sounding “Outer Continental Shelf Transboundary Hydrocarbons Agreement Act”. A little over four pages long, H.R. 1613 is primarily designed to provide Congressional approval to a US-Mexico Transboundary Hydrocarbons Agreement (TBA) signed by both governments over a year ago.

As you probably know, after 30 years of service, Representative Barney Frank (D-MA) — the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee — will be retiring at the end of the 113th Congress. While we are sad to lose one of our Congressional champions, I was thrilled to sit down with him in September,

You may recall ONE’s campaign in April urging the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to use some of the profit from the planned sale of its gold to help the world’s poorest countries. In our proposal and the accompanying campaign, we asked the IMF to make $4-5 billion of that profit available in loans to low-income

Late this afternoon, Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA) introduced a potentially devastating amendment cutting $506 million in multilateral aid from the State-Foreign Operations Appropriations bill. In just a few hours before the amendment’s presentation, hundreds of ONE members across 60 key districts registered calls to their representatives asking for a NO vote on the Lewis amendment.

With gas prices rising to record levels and showing no signs of slowing, energy security is quickly becoming the number one election year issue. Yesterday alone there were at least three press conferences on Capitol Hill from party leaders on the issue of high energy costs. But amid the finger-pointing and searching for quick fixes,