Document 0690
 DOCN  M95A0690
 TI    Two key programs are kept intact, but HOPWA's fate remains uncertain.
 DT    9510
 SO    AIDS Policy Law. 1995 Mar 24;10(5):1, 10. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       AIDS/95700231
 AB    The House of Representatives, at press time, was scheduled to vote on an
       amendment that would restore the full $186 million Housing Opportunities
       for People with AIDS (HOPWA) program appropriation for the current
       fiscal year. Advocacy groups became encouraged to save HOPWA since a
       recent legislative victory preserved two other AIDS programs from
       congressional budget-cutters. The Ryan White Comprehensive Assistance
       Resources Emergency (CARE) Act and a community-based prevention grant
       program run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were
       slated to be cut by the Appropriations Committee; activists credited the
       legislative skills of Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) for
       protecting these programs. HOPWA, however, didn't make it through the
       Appropriations Committee. House members who support AIDS programs have
       created an informal, bipartisan coalition (led by Pelosi and Steve
       Gunderson, R-Wis.) to undo the Appropriations Committee's vote on HOPWA.
       At press time, representatives were organizing to offer an amendment
       restoring the entire $186 million in HOPWA funding in exchange for the
       same amount of cuts in NASA's $14 billion budget, which thus far had
       escaped any reductions.
 DE    *Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome  Financing, Government
       Housing/ECONOMICS/*LEGISLATION & JURISPRUD  *Politics  NEWSLETTER
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