HRES 241
110th 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 completely and immediately Haiti's debts to such institutions, and for other purposes.
Introduced: March 13, 2007
Introduced by:
Waters, Maxine
Democratic
· California
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Became law
Mar 13, 2007
Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Mar 13, 2007
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 such institutions; 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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