Subject: Obama nominates Gayle Smith as USAID chief - Adam B. Lerner - POLITICO
From: "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>, "Rob Walker" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 14:08:26 -0400

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> Obama nominates Gayle Smith as USAID chief
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> Obama nominates Gayle Smith as USAID chief
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> By Adam B. Lerner <http://www.politico.com/reporters/AdamBLerner.html>
> 4/30/15 1:30 PM EDT
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> President Barack Obama nominated Gayle Smith Thursday to take over the U.S. Agency for International Development as its next administrator, succeeding Raj Shah.
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> Smith previously served as a senior aide on the White House National Security Council staff, focusing on development and democracy policy, after a stint at the Center for American Progress. She also served in the Clinton administration and worked for two decades as a journalist in Africa.
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> “Her expertise and vision have been instrumental to the Administration’s successes in promoting food security, global health, Power Africa, and the Ebola response,” National Security Adviser Susan Rice said in a statement. “I know Gayle will continue to use her remarkable talents to lead USAID.”
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> Smith now awaits a confirmation vote in the U.S. Senate.
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> In the president’s 2016 budget, he requested $22.3 billion for USAID. The agency recently sent a disaster assistance response team of 130 people to Nepal to respond to the country’s magnitude 7.8 earthquake, which so far has claimed more than 5,000 lives.
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