ONE (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
10:05 UDPATE: Senator Kerry just began his opening remarks. You can watch live here. In just a matter of minutes, President Obama’s USAID Administrator nominee Rajiv Shah will testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. You can watch the hearing live here once it begins. A copy of Shah’s testimony has also been [...]
UN Dispatch (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is holding its nomination hearing on USAID Administrator-designate Rajiv Shah today. You can watch it live, online. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is holding its nomination hearing on USAID Administrator-designate Rajiv Shah today. You can watch it live , online, on the newly redesigned website of the Senate Foreign Relations...
ONE (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Tomorrow morning at 10 am, Rajiv Shah—President Obama’s nominee to lead USAID—is scheduled to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at his confirmation hearing to be USAID Administrator. The Obama administration nominated Shah — a medical doctor and current Under secretary for Research, Education and Economics at the U.S. Department of Agriculture...
ONE (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
On December 1, Dr. Rajiv Shah appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for his long-awaited confirmation hearing to lead the U.S. Agency for International Development. After nearly 10 months and growing impatience from Congress, the development community, and within the Executive branch, Dr. Shah was warmly received by the Senate Committee, but with [...]
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Ahead of a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing Tuesday, Rajiv Shah, President Barack Obama's nominee for USAID administrator, submitted "a long list of detailed answers to questions" and "weighed in on a number of substantive issues while deferring to the ongoing reviews at both State and the [National Security Council] NSC when it came to matters related to the...
rediff News (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Dr Rajiv Shah, who has been nominated by President Barack Obama to head the US Agency for International Development -- the country's top non-military foreign assistance programme -- has told US lawmakers that "the mission of USAID is my passion," and that "it is with enthusiasm and humility" that he seeks confirmation to lead the agency first established by President...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
ARLINGTON, VA (MARKET WIRE) International Relief & Development (IRD) welcomes President Barack Obama's nomination of Dr. Rajiv Shah as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by the U.S. Agency for International Development:
Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
... duties: nominations. The Foreign Relations Committee will hold one on the nomination of Rajiv Shah as administrator of USAID; nominations, the chamber will vote on Jacqueline Nguyen to be U.S. district judge for the Central District of California, and the Judiciary Committee will hold a haring on the nomination of O. Rogeriee Thompson to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the First Circuit....
The Pakistani Politics (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
President Obama has nominated Indian-American Rajiv Shah to head the USAID. If Congress confirms the nomination of Dr. Shah — who is the Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics and Chief Scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture — then he would become the highest ranking Indian-American in any U.S. administration. Dr. Shah manages the Agricultural...
