What is the outlook for extending the provisions? A. People will have to act quickly to be sure they can take advantage of some of the provisions.
Separately, the Senate Intelligence Committee chairwoman, Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, has proposed extending the provisions through 2013 without changes, and Republican leaders have proposed making the provisions permanent.
In subsequent years, Congress has extended the provision several times, and in 2006, it was reauthorized for another twenty-five years.
Money will be used to dredge the harbour, build low-cost housing, develop local industry, improve transport links and drainage and extend the provision of water services.
And where insurance companies are threatening to remove cover from households, the government should, in return, extend the provision of its own insurance cover.
At the same time, it needs to make a serious effort not just to offer emergency aid in areas of great hardship, but also to extend the provision of health care, education, transport infrastructure and electricity.
Still, Congress could very well seek to extend the provision before it reaches that sunset date.
The pledge, which the party says would be met by 2020, would extend the provision already in place for those from poorer households.
Widespread poverty and vulnerability in pastoralist areas highlight the critical need to extend the provision of social protection to these populations.
