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Republicans and Democrats agreed on several key provisions, including an increase in aid for socalled front-line statesPakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq. Granger and the committees ranking Democrat, Nita Lowey (D-NY), both favored attaching strings to aid for Pakistan and several Middle Eastern countries, though Lowey decried cuts in disaster relief, health programs and family planning that she said would deny millions of women access to adequate health care. The committees passage of the bill was a setback to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has been battling simultaneous efforts by two House committees to slash foreign aid. Clinton on Tuesday wrote a letter to members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee warning that she would urge a veto of any legislation that sought to impose strict new requirements on U.S. assistance to critical U.S. allies and countries in transition, such as Egypt and Yemen. The bill would be debilitating to my efforts to carry out a considered foreign policy and diplomacy, and to use foreign assistance strategically to that end, Clinton wrote. In the letter, obtained from a congressional aide by The Washington Post, Clinton criticized the legislations onerous restrictions on department operations and foreign aid, and the severe curtailing of dues owed to international organizations. Brad Goehner, a spokesman for Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), the committee chairwoman, said in reaction to the letter: Its disappointing, particularly given the current debt crisis, that the Obama administration is fighting to keep sending taxpayer money to foreign organizations and governments that undermine U.S. interests. By Joby Warrick and Mary Beth Sheridan | 06:19 PM ET, 07/27/2011