You come at a time when usaid is making headlines for doing nothing more than the job you were appointed to do. That we say to the record, when it comes to the issue of cuba or your work in any closed society, i do not believe usaids actions, as clearly articulated in your Mission Statement to promote resilient democratic societies that are able to realize their potential, are in any way a cockamamie idea. I believe it is exactly what the people of cuba, iran, burma, belarus, north korea, and other authoritarian nations need to help them communicate with each other. To help them achieve the usaids stated mission of a free, peaceful, and selfreliant society with an effective, legitimate governmen. So i commend you for helping people have a less control platform to talk to each other, helping them find a way to connect and share their views. Global Internet Freedom programs , u. S. International broadcasting, and support for human rights activists are all fundamental components of our co
I do not believe that usaids action that were quoted to promote quote democratic societies that are able to realize their potential are in anyway a bad idea. I believe it is what the people of cuba, iran, burma, north korea and other nations need to help communicate with each other and help them achieve usaids stated mission of a quote free, peace full and self Reliant Society with an effective government. I commend you for giving people a less controlled platform to talk to each other, for helping them find a way to connect and share views. Global Internet Freedom programs and use broadcasting for support were human rights activist are components for our longstanding efforts to promote democracy over states. For 50 years, the United States has had an unwavering commit to provide free information around the world. Our work in cuba is no different than promoting this in ukraine, iran, russia, china or north korea. It should be noted there is 76 million set aside to promote global Intern
This is a human tragedy and honestly one of the fastest expensive and so we would urge you to work on that. Finally, i would like to make my last 24 seconds recognizing this through. Last sunday on 60 minutes, there was a feature on a clinic called the health wagon in west virginia. It all started back in the 1980s by a sister who in an old vw would travel around and provide medical services. There was a certain governor early in the decade actually included this program in the state budget and she has served six counties and my folks and assistive 11,000 folks in an area that is dramatically affected by poverty. The grants are very important and i would commend this remarkable story documented for every dollar of the federal money, we get a hundred dollars rack of health care services. Thank you, mr. Chairman and thank you, secretary sebelius. I would like to echo the senators comments. I also was absent when senators have now brought this up. But it bears repeating that we have made
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While he went orchard for events in ukraine. More on that later nature a fan hello and welcome. I did it when its at five pm here in washington dc. I found her watching our team there the story about the twitter like service that the us launched in cuba four years ago and failed. Well there was an Associated Press investigation which revealed that the us has undertaken extensive efforts to hide the true nature of the messaging system calls and some mail. It was reported that the idea was to create a service that would carry neutral content at the beginning but once again the non subscribers that would be used to steer protesting about the Us International Development Agency has admitted to running that what i like social networking cuba but said he was not an attempt to undermine the government and that it was not covert. Rt political commentator tom sachs report on the latest latin American Country that is challenge washingtons claims. The fallout from the recently disclosed it is in