
George Clooney answers questions from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on horrors he saw while visiting Sudan. With him are human rights activist John Prendergast (center) and Jonathan Temin of the United States Institute of Peace. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

Actor George Clooney (right) responds March 14, 2012, to questions at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Sudan and South Sudan. To his right are John Prendergast (center), co-founder of Satellite Sentinel Project and Enough Project, and Jonathan Temin, director of the United States Institute of Peace's Sudan program. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

Actor and activist George Clooney conducts an interview in the southern Sudanese capital city of Juba on Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011. He is flanked by John Prendergast, left, an American analyst of African conflicts and the director of the ENOUGH campaign. Clooney is visiting southern Sudan in a bid to draw attention to the situation as southern Sudanese prepare to vote in an independence referendum that will determine whether the region secedes from the north to form the world's newest country. Seven days of voting in the referendum is set to commence Sunday morning. (AP Photo/Pete Muller)

American Actor and activist, George Clooney, conducts and interview in the southern Sudanese capital city of Juba Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011. He is flanked by John Prendergast, left, an American analyst of African conflicts and the director of the ENOUGH campaign. Clooney is visiting southern Sudan in a bid to draw attention to the situation as southern Sudanese prepare to vote in an independence referendum that will determine whether the region secedes from the north to form the world's newest country. Seven days of voting in the referendum is set to commence Sunday morning. (AP Photo/Pete Muller)