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Status: Single
City: London, Seattle, Los Angeles
Country: UK
Signup Date: 6/20/2005
Thursday, March 20, 2008 
A good piece of news coming from the US:

Advocates of global development scored a win yesterday—restoring $4 billion to the 2009 International Affairs Budget. Initially, George W. Bush requested $39.8 billion for this budget that covers things like the Millennium Challenge Corporation and the Peace Corps–and the Senate considered decreasing it by $4 billion. Thanks to Senators Richard Durbin (D-IL) and Gordon Smith (R-OR)–who quickly responded by introducing an amendment to partially restore the funds–to the rest of the senators who voted "yes," and to the support of concerned citizens from the One Campaign, the full $4 billion was restored.

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Lets hope the money is well spent!


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