The Senate Foreign Relations Committee Tuesday is expected to mark up a bill that would "authorize $3.5 billion in reconstruction funds for Haiti over five years" and would also require USAID "to submit a long-term reconstruction plan to Congress as well as mandate the president to appoint a senior policy coordinator for Haiti," The Hill reports (Bogardus, 5/23). "Lawmakers are attempting to balance a bipartisan consensus to invest heavily in rebuilding the earthquake-ravaged country with some members' deep-seated doubts about the capabilities" of USAID, Congressional Quarterly writes... 
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