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Delays in Filling USAID Posts Leave Agency in a Bind (CQ)

September 01, 2010

CQ quotes Sarah Jane Staats on empty USAID posts.

From the article:

Sarah Janes Staats, director of policy outreach at the Center for Global Development, which works to reduce global poverty, said the fact that those nominations didn’t get a Senate vote before recess was both a surprise and a disappointment. The concern now, said Staats, is that the “congressional calendar is quite short for the rest year” and that the current Congress could expire before the nominations are considered.

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