Foreign Affairs Panel Calls For Overhaul of State Dept.
By Glenn Kessler
The United States must scrap the current structure of the State Department and radically reshape its foreign assistance, trade and diplomatic programs to create a super-size international affairs agency to meet overseas challenges, a majority in a congressionally mandated bipartisan commission will recommend tomorrow.
While all 20 members of the HELP Commission agreed that the current foreign affairs structure is inadequate, a minority of three Democrats and one Republican dissented from the recommendation. The dissenters instead urged elevating foreign assistance and international development to a new Cabinet-level agency, according to a copy of the commission's final report.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/08/AR2007120801647.html?hpid=topnews
Sunday, 9 December 2007
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