HRES 888
109th Congress
House
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Caribbean area
Debt relief
Development credit institutions
Haiti
International Affairs
Latin America
Urging multilateral financial institutions to cancel Haiti's debts to such institutions under the Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative and the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative immediately, and for other purposes.
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jun 22, 2006
Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Jun 22, 2006
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Urges: (1) the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank), the Inter-American Development Bank, and other multilateral financial institutions to cancel Haiti's debts to them under the Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative and the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative; and (2) the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct U.S. Executive Directors at such institutions to use U.S. influence to accomplish this goal.
What's happening now
Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Committees of jurisdiction
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