SENATE BILL: Support for the Sudanese Act (on the President's desk)

[bgwah]

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Sponsor: North Carolina Yankee

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Well clearly some modifications need to be made.

The preamble needs to have references to IDS replaced with Atlasia.


And section 2 probably should be removed.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Not an amendment just yet, I want to consult with some people first.

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[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Also this is a point to consider:

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[Fuzzybigfoot]

You know, things may not be as bad for the North Sudanese as you'd think. They just need a big enough straw. 

[Associate Justice PiT]

     1.c should also be altered, seeing as how it is expressly recommending a course of action to the Atlasian government.

[bgwah]

Shouldn't these things have been fixed before it was proposed?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Shouldn't these things have been fixed before it was proposed?

Some of it yes, but 1c is I think best determined by Senate debate and feedback regarding which programs to increase funding and how much it should be increased.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I am going to go ahead and offer this amendment and get these changes taken care off:

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I contacted the SoEA about getting a suggest list of the best agencies and groups which to increase aid to, and how much to increase it to make 1c a functional change in federal policy.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

And unfortunately, the SoEA is unavailable till Monday.

[bgwah]

I am going to go ahead and offer this amendment and get these changes taken care off:

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I contacted the SoEA about getting a suggest list of the best agencies and groups which to increase aid to, and how much to increase it to make 1c a functional change in federal policy.

Senators have 24 hours to object to the amendment.

[bgwah]

The amendment has passed.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I PMed Ben again tonight.

[bgwah]

I intend to bring this to a final vote tomorrow if there are not any new developments.

[Yelnoc]

If it effects your vote, I wrote this

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Hey guys, sorry for the delay.

In terms of where the aid should go there are several options.  First, there is some sort of cooperation with the UN/AU/GTO.  I tend to think that is the best policy.  There is also the option of giving the money directly to South Sudan, which I am more wary of; North Sudan cannot have any funding just given to it; as that will only end up in Bashir's pocket.

As to the total amount, I am not of much help.  I would recommend asking the GM, as he also has a better grasp of our current aid numbers; I will simply push for a significant increase over whatever it is now.

Hope this helps.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Ah, yes executive branch run around.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

You know, there is a reason I wanted to do it like this. In a properly functioning system there would be multiple Senators engaged on this and the Cabinet actively working to support the efforts of those Senators, particular the SoEA.

So far, the response to this bill is piss poor. When I was PPT, I thought that speed and substance didn't have to be traded for each other and I was right. We sat for ages and nothing go done on the CSS. It was only when the screws were tightened that stuff started happening. Though not through the way they should. Ususally one person or two people ended up shouldering most of the burden.

Now all of you lazy incompetents, read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_foreign_aid

and these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sudan


Some descriptions concerning situation in South Sudan:

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[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The North:

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They have apparently lost what had driven their growth for the most part, oil. So it seems likely they will have economic problems.

Though the details are more scant on wikipedia, I immagine poverty, illiteraticity and lack of health care are problems present in the country. Not to mention the effects of the situation in Darfur regarding refugees and the problems that presents.

As the SoEA, we want to be careful not to give anything to Bashir directly, as he would likely hoard and steal it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan#International_organizations_in_Sudan

[Kaine for Senate '18]

If any aid is directly given to North Sudan, I will advise a veto, FYI.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

If any aid is directly given to North Sudan, I will advise a veto, FYI.

Didn't I just cite your previous comments to that effect at the bottom of my previous post, and express a similar opinion?

[Kaine for Senate '18]

If any aid is directly given to North Sudan, I will advise a veto, FYI.

Didn't I just cite your previous comments to that effect at the bottom of my previous post, and express a similar opinion?

Sure, but I wanted to say it too

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

So famine relief, Health Care services, Education, and Economic development


Any other prime categories where we should lazor in on something?

[Kaine for Senate '18]

I think education needs to be the #1 priority in South Sudan, but there should be separate funding for "government training."  Essentially, helping the new government learn how to be a democratic nation - the day to day functions of a government.  There's probably an actual term, and a better definition, but that is the gist of what I'm thinking.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_foreign_aid

Econom   Mil    Total  Aid received person recipient

Sudan 1,174.10 38.70 1,212.70 28.33


USAID Economic Support Fund/Security Support Assistance
USAID Development Assistance
USAID Child Survival and Health
Other USAID Assistance
USDA Food Aid
Other USDA Assistance
State Department Global Health and Child Survival
State Department Global HIV/AIDS Initiative
State Department Migration and Refugee Assistance
State Department Nonproliferation, Anti-Terrorism, Demining and Related


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_International_Development
Geographical bureaus:
AFR—Sub-Saharan Africa
ASIA—Asia
LAC—Latin America & the Caribbean
E&E—Europe and Eurasia
ME—the Middle East
OAPA—Afghanistan and Pakistan


Functional bureaus:
GH—Global Health
EGAT—Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade
DCHA—Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance
BFS—Food Security


USAID Goals:
Disaster relief
Poverty relief
Technical cooperation on global issues
U.S. bilateral interests
Socioeconomic development
Environment

Sudan 1.46 billion

$2.1 billion for State Department and USAID programs in Africa to address non-HIV/AIDS health, economic growth and democratic governance needs and to help promote stability in Sudan, Liberia, Zimbabwe and Somalia in support of the President's 2005 commitment to double aid to Africa by 2010