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| Congress Blocked Kerry From Offering More Aid To Egypt |
| 2013-03-11 |
Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... had hoped to offer considerably more aid to Egypt than the $250 million he announced during his trip to Cairo but was blocked by Congress, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-Calif.) said. Royce wouldn't say how much Kerry had hoped to announce, but the State Department has been pressing Congress to greenlight $450 million in direct aid since last fall. "Our approach is not the full-throttle administration approach of delivering all the aid that they wanted to deliver, but rather a measured approach of tying tranches to results as it pertains to the peace treaty with Israel, to cooperation with respect to smuggling [into Gazoo] and with respect to economic reforms to guarantee civil rights and the rule of law within Egypt," he said. "That's the pressure that we're applying." |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 Warren is buying Heinz, use some of your own dough! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-03-11 04:12 |
| #2 Good, there's a reason we have Congress. That's one of them. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-03-11 00:35 |
| #1 What happened to 'sequestration', Jawn? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-03-11 00:34 |