When the United States is engaged abroad, it is less likely that we will need to fight costly wars overseas.

Simply put, Mr. Chairman, the President's budget is an attack on the security of this country.

Our development work makes the world more prosperous. Our humanitarian efforts create stability and goodwill.

There should never be a debate between diplomacy and military strength, a debate between hard power and soft power.

If some in the White House want to dismantle the Federal Government, the executive branch, and hollow it out, it is going to make their foreign policy, our foreign policy, ineffective.

My goal... is to do a paradigm shift of getting away from aid and developing it from aid to trade.

Completely slashing the 150 account will not address our debt crisis.

Doc, I would like to finish out here, but I am done, and I am going to be respectful of the committee's time.

U.S. global economic leadership and foreign assistance generates significant returns on investments here at home.

I am looking forward to working with my colleagues on this committee to reauthorize and strengthen this critical program.

The Brownfields Program is a proven catalyst for redevelopment and revitalization that is truly, truly needed.

This is an epic failure, and it is really a testament to the failure of socialism, the failure of central planning, and the failure of having a repressive police state.

I remain extremely concerned about the brownfield sites in my district and across the Nation that have yet to be remediated.

The need for diplomacy, development, and defense.

We are living in a world with a lot more danger and terror, and decimating the State Department is, I will say it respectfully, not smart--dumb, not smart.

How does our President have the moral authority to sit across the table from a world leader and say, 'You've got to keep it clean. You've got to count the votes?'

I think it's going to be something that's going to be a model to be looked upon.

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