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Sunday, July 20, 2008
Haiti on the Hill
By Jane Charles-Voltaire
As the Haitian government continues to squabble over the election of a prime minister, kidnappings appear to
be on the rise, and close to 80 percent of the population is suffering from a food crisis. But in the United States
bi-partisan legislators are actively pushing for bills that might help to alleviate some of the load in terms of Haiti’s
debt, foreign investment and the phenomenon of the brain drain.
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the Senate side, one bill which supporters hope will start moving in the Senate committee on Foreign Relations, is S. 2166,
the Jubilee Act for Responsible Lending and Expanded Debt Cancellation of 2007, which was introduced by Senator Casey in October
2007. An identical bill, HR 2634, passed in the house this past April and is now awaiting a Senate vote.
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