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Subject: [wa-afr] FW: ACTION: Bush budget eliminates prohibitions on user
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Subject: ACTION: Bush budget eliminates prohibitions on user fees
ADNA Action: 010424
Message from the Health GAP Coalition
For contact information see aso:
http://www.africapolicy.org/adna
Dear ADNA members,
Following find the action alert from Results, courtesy of the Health
GAP Coalition regarding President Bush's attempt through the
budget process to undo the prohibitions on requiring user fees put
in place legislatively last year. For further information contact
Results directly as noted at the end of the alert. Feel free to share
this with your contacts.
Regards,
Vicki Ferguson
ADNA Communications Facilitator
Date sent: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:53:22 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Paul Davis <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: FW: Alert--President's Budget calls for striking
Congressional language opposing user fees
Joanne Carter from RESULTS is calling attention to a horrible and
devious effort by the Bush Admin to repeal the user fee victory of
last year.
When "user fees" are imposed by international institutions such as
the World Bank, free health clinics are required to start charging
fees. Free schools are required to start charging fees. Health and
education decline dramatically.
We should be involved in defending last year's victory.
Paul Davis
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Health GAP Coalition
ACT UP Philadelphia
+1.215.731.1844 ACT UP tel.
+1.215.731.1845 fax
+1.215 474.6886 direct
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From: "Joanne Carter" <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 18:35:51 -0400
Subject: Alert--President's Budget calls for striking Congressional
language opposing user fees!!!!
To follow is an alert on User Fees from RESULTS. If you have other
ideas for action, please post them to this email group!
President’s Budget Request Calls for Striking Congressional
Language
Opposing User Fees
WE Must Let Congress and the Bush Administration Know that the
Language Passed by Congress Last Fall Opposing User Fees Must
Be Protected and Strengthened.
The President’s recently released Budget Request calls for striking
the user fees language we worked so hard last year to get passed
into law! The Budget Request calls for deleting Section 596 of last
year’s final Foreign Aid Appropriations, or spending, bill. Section
596 directs the US representatives to the World Bank, IMF and
Regional Development Banks to oppose any loan (or debt relief
agreement or other policy document) that includes user fees for
primary education or primary healthcare. The President’s Budget
Request poses a very serious threat to our efforts to eliminate these
harsh policies that exclude poor people from basic services.
Fortunately, Section 596 cannot be repealed from U.S. law without
an act of Congress. We must get to all our Representatives and
Senators, especially those who sit on the Foreign Operations
Subcommittee of Appropriations (as that is the Subcommittee which
authored the language), and urge them to protect this language.
We must get to the Bush Administration and ensure that the US
Treasury Department oversees this language forcefully, rather than
trying to eliminate it!
Here are some things you can do:
1) Call or write your Representatives and Senators*. Let them know
that you strongly support the user fees language within last years
foreign aid appropriations bill and do not want to see it struck. As an
action, you can ask your Reps to speak and write to House Foreign
Operations Chairman Jim Kolbe (R-AZ) and, if a Democrat, also
Ranking member Nita Lowey (D-NY). Ask your Senators to speak
and write to Senate Foreign Operations Chairman McConnell (R-
KY) and, if a Democrat, also to Ranking Senator Leahy (D-VT). Ask
them to express support for last year’s final foreign aid
appropriations bill language, which eliminates user fees for primary
health and education. Ask them to urge that THIS LANGUAGE BE
PROTECTED AND STRENGTHENED. [The RESULTS office can
provide you a sample letter.]
We may also have a Senate sign-on letter to the Administration on
this issue soon! We’ll keep you posted.
2) Write to US Treasury Secretary O’Neil and express your strong
support for protecting the language opposing user fees that is now
law, and which the Bush administration is proposing to eliminate.
Urge that Treasury protect this language and not try to repeal it, and
that Treasury strengthen its enforcement of this language at the
World Bank and IMF. Address: Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neil,
U.S. Treasury, 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington DC
20220.
3) On April 25th, call the White House, the Treasury and the State
Department to let them know that you support full cancellation of the
debts that impoverished countries owe to the IMF and World Bank
AND that you want the language passed by Congress last year
opposing user fees to be retained and strengthened.
* If your Rep. or Senator sits on the Foreign Operations
Subcommittee of Appropriations, it is particularly important that he
or she know about the User Fees issue. Please flag the User Fees
issue for them and let them know that this important language is
being threatened. Ask them to urge the Chair and Ranking
members of the Subcommittee to protect this language. [Each
member of the subcommittee also submits a set of priorities to their
chairman called a “wish list.” You can ask if they would include this
user fees request in their wish list letters.]
Foreign Operations Subcommittee Members
Senate
Republicans
Democrats
McConnell –KY chairman
Stevens –AK
Bennett -UT Leahy –VT ranking
Specter –PA Inouye –HI
Campbell -CO Johnson -SD
Gregg –NH Harkin –IA
Bond -MO Landrieu -LA
Shelby –AL Mikulski –MD
House
Republicans Democrats
Kolbe –AZ chair Lewis –CA Lowey –NY ranking Rothman –NJ
Callahan –AL Wicker –MS Pelosi -CA
Knollenberg –MI Bonilla –TX Jackson –IL
Kingston –GA Sununu –NH Kilpatrick –MI
For more information, please feel free to contact us at RESULTS:
RESULTS Contact Information: (202) 783-7100 fax (202) 783-
2818
Main Office Legislative Staff:
Joanne Carter [log in to unmask]
Leila Nimatallah [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask]
Sarah Harre [log in to unmask]
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This message from Results via the Health GAP Coalition is
distributed through the Advocacy Network for Africa (ADNA).
Vicki Lynn Ferguson
Advocacy Network for Africa (ADNA)
Communications Facilitator
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