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It argues that narrow House and Senate margins and budget-cutting sentiment undermine support for multilateral financing. 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 \nThe narrowness of the House vote to donate $75 million to Sandinis-M00D OF THEtas in Nicaragua(a five-vote margin in a 435 member House)and the 219CONGRESSto 170 vote to cut the authorization for the Inter-American DevelopmentBank by $1.2 billion should have a sobering effect on the New York bankswho are counting on Washington to bail them out of their over-commitment  \nto the under-developed areas,and particularly on the \"second tier banks\"which theWall Street Journal mentions as being considered by the \"first-tier'banks as candi-dates for embroilment in such financing now that the first-tier banks close in ontheir legal limits.  \nIf to this is added the bipartisan interest in cutting the budget deficitby cutting federal expenditures,lobbying for foreign aid becomes a pretty dismal anddiscouraging affair.  \nDuring the days when the State Department was selling the Congress onLOBBYINGits manoeuver to furnish foreign aid illegally through the internationalTECHNIQUEcoffee agreement,the lobbyists devised a quite successful technique ofsending each congressman and senator a list showing how much the coffeeproducing countries imported from their respective states,and presumably  \nhow much more they could buy if they were given aid illegally through the coffee agree-ment.  \nIt was never a sound basis for economic policy,and it depended on thestupidity of the congressmen involved.(It was even less sound if that is possiblethan Peron's historic contribution that the road to sound finance lies in lettingBrazil charge 50%more on its exports to Argentina while Argentina will charge 50%more on its exports to Brazil,the price boosts to increase the well being of bothcountries equally)!  \nAfter all,in the U.S.case,if federal funds were to be used to expandprocurement in South Dakota or New York or Wisconsin,there were easier ways to un-load the money than through the foreign aid program -and there was in alternativeways more assurance that the whole amount would go for procurement in the states.In any event,foreign aid had not been designed as an export promotion program or asa crutch for companies unable to compete effectively overseas.  \nThus,it is a measure of the extremes to which the foreign aid programTECHNIQUEhas been reduced to see the House confronted with state by state dataUSED T0designed to show how each state would be damaged if the donations wereSAVE IADBnot made or if the multilateral instituion,namely,the Inter-AmericanFINANCINGDevelopment Bank,were not funded as heavily as the lobby wanted themto be.  \nThus,to take our own state(Vermont)as an illustration,the lobbyistsasserted that damage would accrue to the State of Vermont if the full authorizationfor the Inter-American Development Bank were not supported by the two senators andthe lone congressman from the State of Vermont.  \nProcurement,the lobbyists for the State Department pointed out sharply,for projects financed by the Bank in the State of Vermont had been averaging 277thousand(note this is thousand,not million)per year.  \nIt was therefore the duty of Vermont's two senators and one congressmanto reject the proposed $1.2 billion cut in the authorization for the Inter-AmericanDevelopment Bank lest the State lose some of the $277,000 of orders.Again,procure-ment in Vermont deriving from the International Development Association had been runn-ing $50,033 in the cited year.Dare a congressman or senator vote against his state'sbenefit from this merely because principle is involved?Dare he stand in the way of a  \n$1.2 billion drain lest the $50,033 be lost to Vermont?  \nSixteen of the states are shown to have even less at stake from pro-  \ncurement of the projects financed by Inter-American Development Bank.  \nYet,the lobbyists for the bil1 were reduced to making such demands,counting heavily not on corruption of the congressmen and senators but on their basicstupidity.","cbCaijfWmx2tAINF","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijfWmx2tAINF","pdf",904295,"English","# The legislative vote and its implications\n## Lobbying tactics and state-by-state influence\n## Budget-cut pressure and policy logic","[{\"question\":\"What issue does the letter focus on regarding foreign aid and the Inter-American Development Bank?\",\"answer\":\"The letter focuses on congressional actions that would cut authorization for the Inter-American Development Bank and how that decision relates to broader foreign aid policy and financing.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the letter describe the lobbying method used to influence lawmakers?\",\"answer\":\"It describes lobbying that sent each congressman and senator lists showing how much the coffee-producing countries imported from their states, implying potential gains if aid were approved illegally through a coffee-related arrangement.\"},{\"question\":\"What concern does the letter raise about the effectiveness of these lobbying tactics?\",\"answer\":\"It suggests that repeated lobbying approaches were becoming less persuasive, noting that the margin for cutting the bank’s authorization indicated the technique was wearing thin and that counterarguments overwhelmed the messaging.\"}]","HANSON’S LATIN AMERICAN LETTER - Washington - 29 March 1980 - Number 1828 | PDF",1789965408,13]