Partisan politics can make it tough to get legislation passed in a Presidential election year, but lawmakers from both parties came together to support the Global Food Security Act, which passed last month and made Feed the Future federal law. In the past, the effort was a presidential initiative, so President Obama was clearly happy to see the program become permanent before the end of his term.
But he wasn’t the only one.
Georgia Sen. Johnny Isakson, a Republican who sits on both the Senate Finance and Foreign Relations committees, put his influence and popularity behind the bill to help see it passed.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote about the across-the-aisle cooperation in this article, which quotes PMIL Assistant Director Jamie Rhoads.