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Bernard D. Tremblay — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:50:37 GMT

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A Huge Victory in the House

Alan Boswell — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:45:20 GMT

The House of Representatives passed its version of the FY 2008 State & Foreign Operations 241-178. Since the Republican leadership urged their caucus to oppose final passage it was more or less a party line vote. Yeas - 210 Ds and 31 Rs. Noes 164 Rs and 14 Ds. The bill represents a 10% increase in funding over last year's enacted levels. Poverty-focused development assistance received a 2+ billion dollar increase.

The bill highlights remain largely unchanged, see below.

Global HIV/AIDS and Other Global Health Priorities:

* $6.519 billion for global health programs, including HIV/AIDS.
* $550 million for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. President Bush requested no funding for the Global Fund in the State and Foreign Operations Appropriations bill.
* A major increase for the Child Survival and Health Programs account, which is $393 million above the President's request.
* $50 million in additional funding to combatXDR-TB (Extensively Drug Resistant Tuberculosis)

Improving Aid Effectiveness and Strengthening Development Assistance:

*A major increase for the Development Assistance account for a total of $1.734 billion, which is $692 million above the President's request. This will fund an initiative on basic education for developing countries as well as an expansion of safe water and environmental programs.
*$750 million for basic education
*$300 million for improving access to clean water

-from the ONE Blog

Extreme Poverty

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