The Persecution website reports today (May 14, 2011) that U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf -- author of the 1998 act that established the International Religious Freedom (IRF) office -- is now proposing an amendment that would give the IRF ambassador-at-large direct contact with the Secretary of State and greater access to the president's foreign policy decision-making.
Under the proposed bill, newly confirmed IRF Ambassador-at-Large Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook would be moved from the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor into Secretary of State Hilary Clinton's office.
Ambassador Cook would also be given oversight and management authority of the IRF Office and other religiously oriented positions and programs at the State Department.
Rep. Wolf, a Republican from Virginia, said he created the amendment because -- since its inception -- the IRF has not had the impact that it was intended to have.
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