We must be cognizant that the American people do support strengthening U.S. humanitarian and development programs around the country--around the world, but I don't believe they realize that it is the small percentage of our budget.

I hope that this subcommittee retains the provisions that I have worked on for many, many years, barring the establishment of permanent military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Half of the people who are sick today worldwide are sick, needlessly, from water-borne disease.

This is something that is very unlikely to end up in some despot's bank account in Switzerland.

I would ask that at a minimum you continue that parity, but I also think it would be a good idea--and I am not going to get into this, you can refer to my written testimony--to try to narrow this waiver, because again we are seeing more…

if there was some kind of language that could be reported out of the subcommittee that directs the Department of State to remove any official or unofficial restrictions on diplomatic contact between the United States and Nagorno Karabakh.

Thank you for all your support over the years of both Armenia and Israel.

It doesn't seem like much money, but it has a huge impact on the ground.

Congresswoman Lowey, I was in New York when Secretary Clinton entered into an agreement to look at conditional cash transfers.

I think the budget cannot and should not be balanced on the back of children and poor people. The stakes are too great for us and for them.

It is not a foreign aid program and people make that mistake, that somehow the East-West Center is an arm of our foreign aid.

I am here to ask for your support of the East-West Center, which, although located in Hawaii, has international programs and, in fact, they have programs in most of the Members' States.

With your help, it will.

I think what really many of us struggle with who have never had to face your responsibility...

I would like to thank the Department of Energy and the Department of Agriculture for the combined support of over $100 million...

I'm proud to say that the district attorney, who was the DA at the time, who brought the case, the deputy district attorney who actually prosecuted the case, the district attorney in our jurisdiction who is there today and his chief…

As hard as it may be to believe, occasionally, Senators make mistakes and I am one of them.

Thank you very much.