11-12-2009 Interview. In late 1979 the ICRC and the United Nations Childrenâs Fund (UNICEF) began a vast relief operation for the people of Cambodia, threatened by famine. Thirty years on, FranÃ§ois Bugnion, the first ICRC delegate to return to Cambodia after the genocide, talks of his experiences there. Following the overthrow of the Khmer Rouge in January 1979 by Vietnamese forces, rumours were rife of mass starvation in the country, which had been closed to the world for four years.
The House Ways and Means Committee, chaired by Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan, was one of three committees to pass a proposal detailing what parts of Obamacare should be repealed through reconciliation. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Newscom).
Maybe if you buy 50 repeal votes, you get one free. We get it.. For more than a year, Democrats and their advocates in the press have been ridiculing the GOP's anti-Obamacare efforts. The House Republicans have voted more than 30 times to repeal Obamacare, White House press secretary Jay Carney said in March 2013. The House has wasted weeks voting more than 40 times to repeal Obamacare, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said in October of last year. If at first you don't succeed, try 50 times -- Republicans [are] holding a 50th vote to repeal Obamacare, MSNBC's Al Sharpton said last week. Many others have said similar things. The only problem is, the truism isn't true. The House has actually voted to repeal Obamacare in its entirety six times.