WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 03: Bill Gates (R), Microsoft Chairman and co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, poses for photographs with House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) (C) and committee members Rep. Christopher Smith (R-NJ) before a meeting in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill December 3, 2013 in Washington, DC. The world's richest person valued at about $77.7 billion, Gates (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)