IIB 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1302 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
SEPTEMBER 26, 2007 
Received, read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 
AN ACT 
To require the President to develop and implement a com-
prehensive strategy to further the United States foreign 
policy objective of promoting the reduction of global pov-
erty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the 
achievement of the United Nations Millennium Develop-
ment Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of 
people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on 
less than $1 per day. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Global Poverty Act 
of 2007’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) More than one billion people worldwide live 
on less than $1 per day, and another 1.6 billion peo-
ple struggle to survive on less than $2 per day, ac-
cording to the World Bank. 
(2) At the United Nations Millennium Summit 
in 2000, the United States joined more than 180 
other countries in committing to work toward the 
United Nations Millennium Development Goals to 
improve life for the world’s poorest people by 2015. 
(3) The United Nations Millennium Develop-
ment Goals include the goal of reducing by one-half 
the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 
and 2015, that live on less than $1 per day, cutting 
in half the proportion of people suffering from hun-
ger and unable to access safe drinking water and 
sanitation, reducing child mortality by two-thirds, 
ensuring basic education for all children, and revers-
ing the spread of HIV/AIDS and malaria, while sus-
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taining the environment upon which human life de-
pends. 
(4) On March 22, 2002, President George W. 
Bush stated: ‘‘We fight against poverty because hope 
is an answer to terror. We fight against poverty be-
cause opportunity is a fundamental right to human 
dignity. We fight against poverty because faith re-
quires it and conscience demands it. We fight 
against poverty with a growing conviction that major 
progress is within our reach.’’. 
(5) The 2002 National Security Strategy of the 
United States notes: ‘‘[A] world where some live in 
comfort and plenty, while half of the human race 
lives on less than $2 per day, is neither just nor sta-
ble. Including all of the world’s poor in an expanding 
circle of development and opportunity is a moral im-
perative and one of the top priorities of United 
States international policy.’’. 
(6) The 2006 National Security Strategy of the 
United States notes: ‘‘America’s national interests 
and moral values drive us in the same direction: to 
assist the world’s poor citizens and least developed 
nations and help integrate them into the global econ-
omy.’’. 
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