Thank you, Ms. Liser.

Members of the EAC have great potential to develop their power sector, and power is one of the major impediments to trade and investment and primarily investment in Africa.

both of us come out of the private sector, come from States that are known for their economic dynamism, and are grateful for the opportunity to engage in our home States with the diaspora community, with our private sectors, with those who…

I very much look forward to testimony from the U.S. Department of Commerce at that hearing, as well as other Government agencies critical to our developing trade relationship with Africa and the private sector.

The most successful small businesses in the United States are able to do that by expanding out from the U.S. market and identifying foreign markets that they can be competitive in and sell their goods and services to.

My view is that we will always do better developing exports in partnership with countries that recognizes their legitimate need to develop their own domestic technology and industries as well.

how might we in the Senate, who are particularly concerned about continuing to expand and promote business relationships between the United States and Africa for our mutual benefit, be more constructively supportive of the work of the…

You mentioned in your testimony progress toward a bilateral investment treaty with Ghana, and yet at the same time, the Foreign Commercial Service, if I understand correctly, has just withdrawn their representative, their participant in…

I appreciate your personal commitment, as well as the personal commitment of the ranking member, Senator Isakson, for meeting with African members who came in from the continent to participate in the AGOA Forum.

Mr. President, the war crimes of Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army, LRA, are well documented. For two decades, they have terrorized Uganda and its neighbors in central Africa, tearing apart families and demolishing whole villages…

The good old-fashioned practices of voter misinformation and voter suppression through flyers or hand-distributed leaflets have continued in the modern age.