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S 355 111th Congress Senate International Affairs Department of State Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad Foreign aid and international relief U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

Increasing America's Global Development Capacity Act of 2009

Introduced: January 29, 2009 Introduced by: Durbin, Richard J. Democratic · Illinois See on congress.gov
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Jan 29, 2009
Introduced in Senate
Jan 29, 2009
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1066-1067)
Jan 29, 2009
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1066)
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Increasing America's Global Development Capacity Act of 2009 - Requires the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to increase the number of full-time Foreign Service officers employed by USAID.

What's happening now January 29, 2009

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1066-1067)

 Bill text 1 version

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 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 2
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Murray, Patty
Washington · Jan 29, 2009
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Whitehouse, Sheldon
Rhode Island · Jan 29, 2009
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 355: Increasing America's Global Development Capacity Act of 2009. 111th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-355/
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