The Seattle Post-Intelligencer and London's Guardian recently published an editorial and an opinion piece about bills (S 2731, HR 5501) that would reauthorize the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Summaries appear below.
Editorial
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: PEPFAR requires an "early, decisive extension by Congress" because that would "send a strong signal to world leaders to join more decisively in their own efforts," a Post-Intelligencer editorial says. It adds that although the House passed its version of the reauthorization bill earlier this month, the Senate version has "encountered an unfortunate delay threat from" Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.). With the Group of Eight industrialized nations summit "in Japan planned for July, it's important for the Senate to move quickly to avoid any kind of protracted delay from" Coburn for "exploiting Senate rules," the editorial says (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 4/27).
Opinion Piece