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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Mar 24, 2014

The United States Congress should at least maintain, but much more preferably, substantially expand its financial support for child survival programs.

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Mark Amodei
@markamodei· Republican · NV· Mar 24, 2014

My rural folks whether they are broadcasters or carriers are scared to death.

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Mar 24, 2014

Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my good friend and colleague from Missouri for her outstanding leadership on behalf of the life issues, for her courage, and for her consistent approach to these vital issues that really are also passing. She…

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Mar 24, 2014

more than 30 percent goes to democracy and governance, something that is not surprising given the conditions of Guatemala at this point in time.

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Mar 24, 2014

About 1,400 kids die daily from diarrheal diseases.

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Mar 24, 2014

How many countries do we have an arrangement with?

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Mar 24, 2014

Russia's land grab in Crimea violates the core principles of the bilateral and multilateral treaties between Ukraine and Russia.

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Mar 24, 2014

This is targeted, it is modest. It is proportionate. It holds harmless the Russian people, while picking out those who have committed egregious acts of corruption and violence.

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Mar 24, 2014

Yanukovych won a free and fair election in 2010. He won it against Yulia Tymoshenko.

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Mar 24, 2014

This man tortures. His bully boys, like Yanukovych's, are known for their use and employment of torture against the civil society.

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Mar 24, 2014

I offered legislation that is law today that has been absolutely unimplemented, first by the Bush administration and now by the Obama administration, that targets people who commit repressive acts in the People's Republic of China.

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Mar 24, 2014

Thank you very much for your testimony and again in your written, more elaborate testimony you just lay out so many good recommendations for this subcommittee to consider.

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Mar 24, 2014

So $200 million, whatever you think, we need a sustainable and a very accurate number to fight for it.

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Mar 24, 2014

The global scale of child mortality is staggering with 6.6 million children dying before their fifth birthday in 2012 alone.

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Mar 24, 2014

We also don't want to see a crowding out of other worthwhile programs robbing those in order to get to a critical mass and PEPFAR certainly has been successful beyond our dreams in many, many ways.

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Mar 24, 2014

Every dollar we spend in this area is a dollar that pays off in that child's life.

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Mar 24, 2014

To not fully support these efforts and to cut funding for these programs that represent a moral failure on the part of our Government.

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Mar 24, 2014

If you could, again, how much has actually been spent? Not any for the last 2 years from that spigot?

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