As a Senator from Massachusetts, I have deep appreciation and respect for the program that President Kennedy and Sargent Shriver and Harris Wofford created in order to involve Americans more actively in the cause of global democracy…

That is a domestic policy issue, in terms of ensuring that we have proper oversight.

Tell us a little bit, if you can, about how you see the logistical complexity of that.

Both of the nominations we are considering today are for positions in which I believe topnotch management is needed, now more than ever.

Thank you.

I want to start by saying how very grateful I am to the women and men who came forward over the past 2 years to share their stories with us.

Thank you, Mr. Carroll, very much. We thank both of you.

You know, in visiting Afghanistan and Iraq and meeting with the USAID employees there, it is just--they are just so courageous to----

my goal would be to establish a zero-tolerance level.

What role can your agency play in ensuring that there is coordination, ensuring the effectiveness of all these agencies is maximized?

If confirmed, I will be honored to serve President Obama in this role and help make possible for others what was made possible for me.

But the higher the standard you set is the better it is for all the rest of them because they are going to respond to the challenge.

I think also just the sense of value that the investments in the Inter-American Development Bank offer.

Yes, I think that is a good standard. We can have the Millennium Transparency Challenge to all the other agencies year after year as you maintain No. 1 in the world in that area.

So what I would like to do is wrap up by asking each of you to give us your 1-minute big picture summation of what it is you hope to accomplish, what you see your role is and your agency's role for our country and for the world that we…

We basically put in $100 million a year. Immediately we get a $200 million grant facility to Haiti over the next 10 years.

I think that ending impunity for gross violations of human rights is absolutely critical.

That helps us with relationships in the region.