Source: http://news.yahoo.com/lawmakers-release-88-6-million-aid-palestinians-232522040.html
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Lawmakers release $88.6 million in aid to Palestinians
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers on Friday released $88.6 million in development aid for the Palestinians that they had held up since last summer, a move that should help ease a fiscal crisis in the aid-dependent Palestinian economy. Representative Kay Granger announced she was ready for the entire $147 million in U.S. assistance that had been frozen since August to go to the Palestinians. But the other Republican who had a "hold" on the funds, Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, limited the release to $88. ...
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