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September 27, 2006

Federal AIDS Money Held Up

September 27, 2006—Democratic Senators from New York, California and New Jersey blocked renewal of the Ryan White Act yesterday to protest their states’ loss of AIDS funds under the current bill. Opponents in both houses of Congress are proposing legislation to extend the existing Act for a year while the bill’s kinks are worked out. 

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