Conservatives Place Hold on Obama's Global Poverty Bill

by Pete Winn, CNSNews: Two conservative members of the U.S. Senate have anonymously placed a hold on Sen. Barack Obama's (D-Ill.) global poverty bill. . . . The effort is an attempt to slow down the progress of a bill (S. 2433) that conservative analysts say could eventually force the U.S. to increase its foreign aid by hundreds of billions of dollars. . . . S. 2433 has been getting "a pass" from Congress. It received absolutely no scrutiny in the House last fall, when it was passed on a voice vote, and no scrutiny last week in the Senate, when the Foreign Relations Committee also passed it on a voice vote. . . . Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joe Biden (D-DL) placed it on a fast-track in recent weeks as Obama's presidential campaign started heating up. The Illinois Democrat praised Biden and the committee's ranking Republican, Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, for "moving so quickly." Obama is the chief Senate sponsor of the bill. . . . [Read More] ARRA NOTE: Sen. Obama's the United Nations “Global Poverty Act" would also commits nations UN's Millennium Declaration which includes banning “small arms and light weapons” and ratifying a series of treaties, including the International Criminal Court Treaty, the Kyoto Protocol (global warming treaty), the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Prior Related Stories: Obama's sovereignty giveaway plan; Oppose Law of the Sea Treaty & Global Poverty Act; Obama's Global Tax Up For Senate Vote

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