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Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Wed, 10/03/2007 - 20:37.
The US Senate passed its version of the foreign aid bill for Plan Colombia Sept. 6. The Senate approved substantially more military aid than the House version ($359.5 million vs. $289.8 million), and nearly $40 million less in non-military aid. When combined with the estimated $150 million in military aid administered directly from the Pentagon, if the Senate version prevails, then the United States will provide more than $500 million in assistance to the Colombian military and police in the coming year. (The average amount of such assistance from 2000 through 2006 was $542 million.)
Now House and Senate committee leaders will reconcile the different versions in a "conference committee" that operates behind closed doors. Several Washington-based organizations are urging the conferees to adopt the version with lesser military aid and more assistance to displaced people and to governmental human rights investigators. (FOR Colombia Program, Oct. 1)
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Senate approves Colombia aid
The US Senate passed its version of the foreign aid bill for Plan Colombia Sept. 6. The Senate approved substantially more military aid than the House version ($359.5 million vs. $289.8 million), and nearly $40 million less in non-military aid. When combined with the estimated $150 million in military aid administered directly from the Pentagon, if the Senate version prevails, then the United States will provide more than $500 million in assistance to the Colombian military and police in the coming year. (The average amount of such assistance from 2000 through 2006 was $542 million.)
Now House and Senate committee leaders will reconcile the different versions in a "conference committee" that operates behind closed doors. Several Washington-based organizations are urging the conferees to adopt the version with lesser military aid and more assistance to displaced people and to governmental human rights investigators. (FOR Colombia Program, Oct. 1)