This page contains bill sponsorships in the Senate and House.
Bill sponsorships indicate the topics that legislators are most interested in, and spend the most time on.
Bill Sponsorship: the Hunger to Harvest bill:
Source: House Resolution Sponsorship
In an effort to reduce hunger in sub-Saharan Africa, urges the President to:
set forth five-year and ten-year strategies to achieve a reversal of current levels of hunger and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, including a commitment to contribute an appropriate U.S. share of increased bilateral and multilateral poverty-focused resources for sub-Saharan Africa, with an emphasis on health (including HIV-AIDS prevention and treatment), education, agriculture, private sector and free market development, democratic institutions and the rule of law, micro-finance development, and debt relief;
and
work with the heads of other donor countries and sub-Saharan African countries and with private and voluntary organizations and other civic organizations to implement such strategies; and calls for
Congress to undertake a multi-year commitment to provide the resources to implement those strategies; and
the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development to report on such implementation.
Participating counts on VoteMatch question 17.
Question 17: Stay out of Iran
Scores: -2=Strongly oppose; -1=Oppose; 0=neutral; 1=Support; 2=Strongly support.
Topic: Foreign Policy
Headline: Multi-year commitment to Africa for food & medicine
(Score: 2)
Headline: Multi-year commitment to Africa for food & medicine
(Answer: D)
AmericansElect Quiz Question 5 on
Foreign Policy:
When you think about the US pursuing its interests abroad, which of the following is closest to your opinion?
A: The US should always act in its own interest regardless of what other countries think
B: The US should rarely listen to other countries
C: The US should listen to other countries more often than not
D: The US should always listen to other countries before pursuing its own interests
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