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U.S. bill would trim $50 million from UNFPA

Posted by jose ledonio on Thursday, October 6, 2011, In : U.S. Politics 
Conservative lawmakers took aim at the United Nations Population Fund in a bill that would eliminate the $50 million budget request made by U.S. President Barack Obama for the agency. Republicans who backed the bill in the Foreign Affairs Committee said they were upset by UNFPA's work in China, which maintains a policy limiting the number of children each family can have, and said the UN agency was complicit in forced sterilizations and abortions. The committee's ranking Democrat, Howard Berm...
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U.S. House seeks UN funding cuts

Posted by jose ledonio on Thursday, July 28, 2011, In : U.S. Politics 
http://www.devex.com/en/blogs/development-assistance-under-obama/2012-foreign-spending-bill-seen-as-undermining-us-national-security-interests
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Michele Bachmann leaves church accused of anti-Catholic bias

Posted by jose ledonio on Saturday, July 16, 2011, In : U.S. Politics 
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-bachmann-church-20110715,0,6299618.story?track=icymi
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