"President Obama and his Republican rival, Mitt Romney, appeared within hours of each other Tuesday at [the Clinton Global Initiative,] a global charitable gathering hosted by former president Bill Clinton, each focusing on how the United States can better promote prosperity and human rights abroad and at home," the Washington Post reports (Rucker/Wilson, 9/25). Saying "that decades of foreign aid have not extinguished 'the suffering and hardship,' Romney called for big changes in the approach to foreign assistance," the Associated Press/Fox News writes (9/25). According to Foreign Policy, Romney "pledged ... to shift foreign aid toward the private sector and deprioritize humanitarian aid in favor of promoting free enterprise and business development around the world" and "then said he would lower the priority of foreign aid as a means to address humanitarian needs, such as health, as well as foreign aid as a means to promote U.S. strategic interests" (Rogin, 9/25). "His plan, which he called 'Prosperity Pacts,' calls for tying development money to requirements that countries allow U.S. investment and remove trade barriers," the AP adds (9/25).