UNITED STATES: Pelosi's Bid for San Francisco Fails

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UNITED STATES: Pelosi's Bid for San Francisco Fails

San Francisco Chronicle (10.22.09) - Thursday, October 22, 2009
Drew Joseph

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was unsuccessful in her attempt to add a provision to the Ryan White Extension Act that would have permanently protected San Francisco's federal HIV/AIDS funding. The city has lost AIDS money since 2006, when the reauthorized act shifted dollars toward rural areas and other locations experiencing high HIV rates. Pelosi applauded the act's extension but criticized the Senate Republicans whose objections stripped the money for San Francisco. An aide to the speaker said Pelosi is attempting to mitigate the city's loss of more than $5 million in AIDS funding through a separate appropriations bill that would restore about $5.3 million.
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