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Senate Appropriations Subcommittee Approves FY13 State And Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill
The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on the Department of State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs on Tuesday approved a $52.1 billion FY 2013 spending bill for state and foreign operations, The Hill's "Global Affairs" blog reports (Pecquet, 5/22). The subcommittee also released a bill summary (5/22). "The bill includes funding for U.S. global health programs at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the State Department comprising a significant portion of funding for the Global Health Initiative (GHI)," according to the Kaiser Family Foundation's "Policy Tracker."
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