George Erik Rupp is an American educator and theologian, who served as President of Rice University and later of Columbia University, and president of the International Rescue Committee from July 2002 to August 2013... (wikipedia)
I think because there are real Indian and Pakistani constituencies in the United States , we'll wind up with money for earthquake relief that may be somewhat above the norm for these kinds of forgotten disasters. I think donors still have some spare change in their pockets.
I think it's terribly important that a moderate group of business leaders has come out in favor of fixing what clearly is broken, namely our system of financing congressional campaigns.
The result is that we are less prepared than we would like to be for what could be a very serious humanitarian emergency.