Global Poverty Act of 2007

A bill to require the President to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.

4/24/2008--Reported to Senate amended. Global Poverty Act of 2007 - Directs the President, through the Secretary of State, to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the U.S. foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day. Requires the strategy to contain specific and measurable goals and to consist of specified components, including:
(1) continued investment or involvement in existing U.S. initiatives related to international poverty reduction and trade preference programs for developing countries;
(2) improving the effectiveness of development assistance and making available additional overall United States assistance levels as appropriate;
(3) enhancing and expanding debt relief as appropriate;
(4) mobilizing and leveraging the participation of businesses and public-private partnerships;
(5) coordinating the goal of poverty reduction with other internationally recognized Millennium Development Goals; and
(6) integrating principles of sustainable development and entrepreneurship into policies and programs. Sets forth specified reporting requirements. Directs the Secretary of State to designate a coordinator who will have primary responsibility for overseeing and drafting the reports, as well as responsibility for helping to implement recommendations contained in the reports. Defines specified terms.


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Sponsor

• Barack Obama
• and 30 Co-Sponsors
  • Sen. Joseph Biden [D, DE]
  • Sen. Jeff Bingaman [D, NM]
  • Sen. Barbara Boxer [D, CA]
  • Sen. Sherrod Brown [D, OH]
  • Sen. Maria Cantwell [D, WA]
  • Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D, MD]
  • Sen. Robert Casey [D, PA]
  • Sen. Hillary Clinton [D, NY]
  • Sen. Susan Collins [R, ME]
  • Sen. Christopher Dodd [D, CT]
  • Sen. Richard Durbin [D, IL]
  • Sen. Russell Feingold [D, WI]
  • Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D, CA]
  • Charles Hagel
  • Sen. Thomas Harkin [D, IA]
  • Sen. Tim Johnson [D, SD]
  • Sen. John Kerry [D, MA]
  • Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D, MN]
  • Sen. Herbert Kohl [D, WI]
  • Sen. Frank Lautenberg [D, NJ]
  • Sen. Richard Lugar [R, IN]
  • Sen. Robert Menéndez [D, NJ]
  • Sen. Barbara Mikulski [D, MD]
  • Sen. Patty Murray [D, WA]
  • Sen. Charles Schumer [D, NY]
  • Gordon Smith
  • Sen. Olympia Snowe [R, ME]
  • Sen. Debbie Ann Stabenow [D, MI]
  • Sen. Jim Webb [D, VA]
  • Sen. Ron Wyden [D, OR]
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Committees

• Senate Foreign Relations

Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to S.2433

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December 07, 2007

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• Apr 24, 2008: Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Biden with amendments and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 110-331.
• Added to calendar on Apr 24, 2008: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 718..
• Added to calendar on Feb 13, 2008: Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably..
• Feb 13, 2008: Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.
• Introduced on Dec 07, 2007.
• Dec 07, 2007: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

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• Children
• Civil liberties
• Civil rights
• Congress
• Congress and foreign policy
• Congressional reporting requirements
• Debt relief
• Department of State
• Developing countries
• Development credit institutions
• Economic assistance
• Economic development
• Education
• Elementary and secondary education
• Entrepreneurs
• Environmental protection
• Executive departments
• Executive reorganization
• Food
• Food relief
• Foreign aid
• Foreign trade policy
• Health policy
• Human immunodeficiency viruses
• Human rights
• Hunger
• Infant mortality
• International affairs
• International agencies
• International finance
• Malaria
• Malnutrition
• Maternal health services
• Medical care
• Medicine
• Nongovernmental organizations
• Potable water
• Poverty
• President and foreign policy
• Presidents
• Preventive medicine
• Public-private partnerships
• Sex discrimination
• Sustainable development
• Trade
• Tuberculosis
• Water resources
• Women
• Women's rights
• World health
• Economic policy
• Tariff preferences

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December 31, 2008 United Nations' Power Will Grow Under President Obama

... use his middle name now) joined with RINO US Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) and Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) to introduce the Global Poverty Act (S.2433). ...

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December 13, 2008 To whom the wealth is spread

...his views have been similarly absent from the public sphere. In December 2007, Obama introduced the Global Poverty Act (S.2433) to aid in "achievement of the [United Nations] Millennium Development Goal of cutting extreme global poverty" by 2015. One of

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December 10, 2008 To Whom the Wealth is Spread

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