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Jacob J. Lew: I think we owe it to them to give them the resources that they need so that we don't ask, for example, 1,000 AID Foreign…

On the recordJanuary 21, 2009
I think we owe it to them to give them the resources that they need so that we don't ask, for example, 1,000 AID Foreign Service officers to cover the whole world at a time when some regions, like Iraq and Afghanistan, have enormous demands.
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Jacob J. Lew

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Lew advocates for better resources for Foreign Service officers to meet global demands.

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