PEPFAR vote expected next week after delays
Posted on July 10, 2008
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An effort by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to secure passage before the July 4 holiday of legislation to repeal the U.S. ban on foreign visitors and immigrants with HIV broke down last week when at least two Republican senators refused to allow a vote on the legislation.
The two senators, Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), objected to unrelated provisions in a U.S. global AIDS relief bill, to which the repeal of the HIV visitors and immigrant ban is attached. PEPFAR vote expected next week after delays
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