That the House of Representatives— (1) commends the timely response of the Department of State and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to early warning signals of drought in the Horn of Africa, and for providing substantial assistance for the humanitarian response in fiscal year 2016 and to date in fiscal year 2017; (2) commends USAID’s quick deployment of a Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) between March and November 2016, in response to the previous drought in northeastern and central Ethiopia, which, by working with international partners, resulted in the number of people requiring humanitarian assistance declining from approximately 10,200,000 in late 2015 to a projected 5,600,000 by the end of 2017; (3) commends the Somali diaspora in the Horn of Africa, the United States, Canada, Australia, and Europe, for spearheading the response to humanitarian needs in Somalia, and encourages financial institutions to explore means to facilitate the flow of charitable donations and remittances to populations in need; (4) commends the work of United Nations agencies and international, national, and local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in providing sustained life-saving assistance to vulnerable populations across the Horn of Africa, leading to improvements in malnutrition rates since 2011