Global Poverty Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2433
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-12-07 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Agriculture and Food
Child health
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Debt relief
Department of State
Developing countries
Development credit institutions
Economic assistance
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Entrepreneurs
Environmental Protection
Executive reorganization
Families
Food relief
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign trade policy
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Human rights
Hunger
Infant mortality
International agencies
Malaria
Malnutrition
Maternal health services
Nongovernmental organizations
Potable water
Poverty
President and foreign policy
Preventive medicine
Public-private partnerships
Sex discrimination
Sustainable development
Tariff preferences
Tuberculosis
Water Resources Development
Women
Women's rights
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-07
text: 
 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 worldwide, 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 specified development goals; and (6) integrating principles of sustainable development and entrepreneurship into policies and programs.

action_date: 2008-04-24
text: 
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.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 718.
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Biden with amendments and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 110-331.
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Biden with amendments and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 110-331.
action_date: 2008-02-13
text: Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.
action_date: 2007-12-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2007-12-07
text: Introduced in Senate