Politics Daily
July 8, 2009
Humphrey Dean Brian Atwood discusses the need for President Obama to keep international development a priority in his administration.
There's also the simple fact of more Democratic votes in the Senate - 60 if everyone is there. All Obama needs is seven Republican votes. J. Brian Atwood, a former treaty negotiator and former director of the U.S. Agency for International Development, urges courage. "People get scared away from testing this thing and going to the Hill and making the case," he says, but the votes are within reach.