Jim Kolbe: “No one who would be under the quota program would get a price in excess of $640 a ton.”

It is a great pleasure to be able to testify today especially with this distinguished panel who are really the practitioners of public-private partnerships.

I want to commend both the chairman and the ranking member and this committee for keeping the committee focused on the importance of U.S. global leadership, effective partnership, and good development practices.

Yes, there are. And I think actually USAID has undertaken, in these last several years, a lot of those reforms.

It has been a vocal advocate for elevating development as a national security pillar equal to that of defense and diplomacy.