Budget constraints are pushing Congress in the opposite direction: trade-adjustment assistance, a long-standing scheme to help those deemed to have lost their jobs to globalisation, expired recently.
However, it is hard to know how effective it might be since the U.S. government has made no concerted effort to condition its long-standing and substantial military assistance on human rights criteria.
In this respect, two long-standing hypotheses stand out.
Officially, the remedy for these workers is Trade Adjustment Assistance, a long-standing federal retraining program that offers community-college tuition and extended unemployment benefits to tens of thousands of workers affected by foreign competition.
Long-standing prohibitions against using development assistance to finance military equipment or promote the donor's security interests remain in place.
Tehran increased its assistance to Shiite militias fighting in Iraq and continued its long-standing military, intelligence and financial aid to Lebanon's Hezbollah, Syrian President Bashar Assad's embattled government and Palestinian groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
(U) Lastly, U/S Burns asked for the President's assistance in resolving the long-standing difficulties in finalizing the lease for the new Embassy compound.
HRSA has long-standing quality of care standards, provides technical assistance to grantees for evaluating quality of care, and has supported independent evaluations of quality of care in RWP-supported facilities [2].
Although assistance should be welcomed from any quarter, the long-standing antagonism between Somalis and Ethiopeans makes this offer of help more problematic than useful.
The new approach codified a long-standing escape hatch for the accused: to provide "substantial assistance" to authorities in exchange for the possibility of early release or dropped charges.
Hale did not say when the munitions would arrive, nor did he provide a price tag for them, but he did say the new assistance it is part of Washington's long-standing partnership with the Lebanese military.
