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Ukraine $1bn aid bill clears Senate after GOP drops resistance to IMF loans
Source: The Guardian
Ukraine $1bn aid bill clears Senate after GOP drops resistance to IMF loans
Dan Roberts in Washington
theguardian.com, Monday 24 March 2014 23.04 GMT
A stalled US aid package for Ukraine finally began to emerge from Congress on Monday night after the Senate temporarily put partisan bickering aside to vote overwhelmingly in favour of $1bn worth of economic assistance measures.
A majority of Republicans dropped their previous resistance to the bill, which includes controversial reforms to the International Monetary Fund added at the request of the White House, and it cleared a key procedural hurdle by 78 votes to 17.
Despite passing out of the Senate Foreign Relations committee more than a week ago, the aid package had been delayed during recent tensions in Crimea due to an unrelated squabble over whether the IMF clauses would be expensive or weaken US influence.
But the wider Ukraine package, which also includes further sanctions against Russia, still faces an uphill struggle in the House of Representatives where its version of the bill does not contain the IMF reforms demanded by Democrats.
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Dan Roberts in Washington
theguardian.com, Monday 24 March 2014 23.04 GMT
A stalled US aid package for Ukraine finally began to emerge from Congress on Monday night after the Senate temporarily put partisan bickering aside to vote overwhelmingly in favour of $1bn worth of economic assistance measures.
A majority of Republicans dropped their previous resistance to the bill, which includes controversial reforms to the International Monetary Fund added at the request of the White House, and it cleared a key procedural hurdle by 78 votes to 17.
Despite passing out of the Senate Foreign Relations committee more than a week ago, the aid package had been delayed during recent tensions in Crimea due to an unrelated squabble over whether the IMF clauses would be expensive or weaken US influence.
But the wider Ukraine package, which also includes further sanctions against Russia, still faces an uphill struggle in the House of Representatives where its version of the bill does not contain the IMF reforms demanded by Democrats.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/24/ukraine-1bn-aid-bill-clears-senate-hurdle-gop
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Such measures from the US rarely if ever involve actual do re me. So what's it this time ? Allowing Bechtel to privatise their water supply ? 
