But what I am concerned about is turning a page that we have never permitted in our history, which is having an oppressive regime anywhere in the world tell us how we are going to ultimately engage in our democracy programs.

Yesterday, Orlando Zapata Tamayo, a Cuban prodemocracy human rights activist and political prisoner... died following a hunger strike protesting the Castro regime's brutal abuses.

If we abandon these countries once we are in there and engaged, there is a very real possibility that we will pay a higher price in the end.

We are hopeful that it will serve both as a practical starting point for improving the efficiency of U.S. and global efforts in this area and as a rallying point for those who agree that food security should play a much larger role in our…

The Kerry-Lugar foreign assistance reform bill has strong support in the aid community and is cosponsored by a bipartisan group of 24 Senators.

If we are to avoid inefficient experimentation, USAID must have a decisionmaking role and the capacity to evaluate programs and disseminate information about best practices and methods.

But you agree it is a problem?

I don't see literacy being addressed in the WIA Act as something that can be used to really impact this pipeline.

The main point they make is 'I need this skill level' or 'Five of us business leaders need this skill level coming through the pipeline, and we are not getting it.'

I think part of what we are dealing with here is there has been a fundamental change in what is required at work.

I don't think that we are really moving in the right direction by not having them at the table as part of the solution.

Fifty percent of our citizens in Philadelphia do not have the literacy skills needed.

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