underscore how our develop assistance helps export markets and ultimately strengthens our job market. we have an economic interest in what we do globally as far as our development assistance is concerned. well continue to champion programs that bring transparency and good governance to the countries in which they are implemented. good governance is a critical part to our international involvement objectives. i also hold that empowering women is one of the most critical tools in our tool box to fight poverty and injustice. gender integration in the field and planning in d.c. must be a central part of any program. i defy anyone s assertion that women s empowerment should take a backseat to any other requirement. many women around the world are doing the agricultural work and not getting the benefits of it. land reform is a critical part of our objectives. dr. smp hah i want to praise you for your release last week of female empowerment, making women and girls central to all ass
CSPAN Tributes To Rep March 11, 2012
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that. yes, ma am. that was the question? yes, ma am. one of the other things we heard about on the trip is the importance of the cooperation that had gone on in the past, on the border between the afghan pakistan troops in avoiding the border incidents, and obviously that situation seems to have deteriorated since that time. can you talk about where we are in those relationships and whether there is hope to get them back on track to restore the kind of communication that can allow us to avoid those border incidents? senator, even in our worst days in the last several months when we were unable to talk about the reopening of the ground line to kick indication, and a lot of friction and statements in the press on both sides, even in the worst days, our brigadier s and colonels and majors were meeting as we tried to coordinate better to avoid the tragedy that happened in late november. so it s actually been the one area where i can tell you we have not been humbled. it