President Barack Obama is asking Congress for $2.8 billion in emergency funding for the reconstruction effort in Haiti following January’s devastating earthquake.
The president’s request comes one week before a U.N. donors conference March 31 in New York. Haitian officials plan to ask for $11.5 billion in reconstruction assistance.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Jewish Chairman John Kerry says the Senate is close to introducing legislation to meet Obama’s request.
The Jan. 12 earthquake that ravaged the capital of Port-au-Prince killed an estimated 230,000 people and left more than 1 million homeless.
The White House released a copy of letter Obama sent to Communist House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday.
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Why can’t Haitians help themselves? WTF!
And its free so who cares !
He’s giving away the rest of America, why not.
Sure why not he just got his new TAX bill passed oh I mean health care bill. Where does it end but I am almost afraid to ask.