Senate Foreign Relations Committee Schedules Hearing on African Export Bill

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee scheduled a hearing titled "Economic Statecraft: Increasing American Jobs Through Greater U.S.-Africa Trade and Investment (S-2215, The Increasing American Jobs Through Greater Exports to Africa Act of 2012)." The July 25 hearing will include as witnesses Fred Hochberg, president of the U.S. Export-Import Bank, Elizabeth Littlefield, CEO of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and Francisco Sanchez, Under Secretary for International Trade at the Commerce Department. The text of S-2215 is (here).