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AIDS Responsibility Project
Friday, September 10, 2010 









Foreign Operations Conference Report Boosts HIV Spending
Congress Daily
November 18, 2003
 
House and Senate conferees tentatively agreed Monday night on a $17.2 billion, FY04 Foreign Operations appropriations bill that incorporates a pair of President Bush's major initiatives to help the poorest of the world's nations and combat the scourge of AIDS in African and other beleaguered countries.

When the conferees disbanded after a 30-minute session, staff experts were detailed to iron out a few minor language differences before a report is completed and sent to the House and Senate floors later this week for final passage.

Among the remaining issues -- all described as "minor" by House Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz. -- was how much to spend this year on global birth-control programs. Senators want $440 million, House members $425 million. A House Appropriation Committee aide said the two sides would "probably split the difference."

Conferees agreed to spend $650 million this year for Bush's Millennium Challenge Account, to promote economic growth and foster small-business startups in poor countries. Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., said that should be more than enough to crank up the new program this year, and noted the president has pledged even more U.S. aid for the initiative in future years.

In another initiative, the conference approved $1.6 billion in aid to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria worldwide. Together with $754 million already in another appropriations bill, the total money available for combating AIDS in FY04 will top $2.4 billion.

The conferees softened threats of aid reduction to Nigeria and Serbia if they fail to abide by U.S. and other Western demands to deliver accused war criminals for trial in an international court.

Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., also complained about the House conferees' refusal to agree to authorize exploratory talks with Cuba on a bilateral effort to interdict Latin American narcotics traffickers in Cuban air space and the open waters around the island.

Specter said he has talked with Cuban President Fidel Castro and is convinced the Cuban dictator, despite profound political differences between the two countries, would be willing to participate in such an anti-drug endeavor.

"We are cutting off our noses to spite our face on this," Specter said. "I'm going to revisit this issue again and again until I succeed, or until I leave Congress."

Senate Majority Whip McConnell appeared to second Specter's sentiments.

"You can bet that Sen. Specter means what he says." By David Hess


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