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The Issues by William Coit
Monday, November 26, 2001Foreign Aid
I support HOPE for Africa Act (H.R. 772)The Human Rights, Opportunity, Partnership and Empowerment for Africa Act. The legislation includes trade, investment, business facilitation, labor and environmental standards, debt cancellation and aid. It provides preferential access to U.S. markets for a broad range of goods and ensures that these goods are made in SSA by African workers and are produced in a manner consistent with internationally recognized labor, human rights and environmental standards; commits the U.S. to sharply reducing SSA’s crushing external debt burden – a major obstacle to the realization of SSA’s economic potential; provides business facilitation measures to promote U.S.-African business partnerships, with emphasis for small businesses; restores a foreign aid budget line item for Africa, locks in 1994 aid levels to African nations and ensures that aid is directed to sustainable economic development and to pressing needs, such as food security, enhancing educational opportunities for women and battling the scourge of AIDS; and provides additional measures for prevention and treatment of the AIDS epidemic now ravaging Africa's human.
Dues to the United Nations
I support the amendment to the State Department's annual authorization bill, the United States will pay $582 million in back dues this year, but a third and final payment of $244 million would be contingent on U.S. readmission to the commission next spring.
China Trade
I am against (H.R.1497) To revoke the authority to extend permanent normal trade relations to the People's Republic of China.
Foreign Aid
Dues to the United Nations
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