I want to thank all of you for doing this. I appreciate the testimony, and I am also going to a meeting with the other c...
Today it is overwhelmingly civilians who suffer the casualties.
Well, thank you. Because as long as I am here in the Senate, I am not only going to remember that little boy in the fiel...
the initiative of Senator Patrick J. Leahy to help Iraqi civilians injured in the conflict
There is an enormous number of disabled people in Vietnam, and this program alone is not going to be able to help them a...
Well, look at yourself. You came here sweeping floors for, what, $2 an hour and have your own business and look what you...
When the United States invaded Iraq, we knew we would need a similar program there, especially as the civilian casualtie...
It was a mistake to not authorize such payments during the first 6 months--to not allow them at all would have been unco...
In 2003, at the urging of Senator Patrick J. Leahy, USAID's Afghanistan Transition Initiative was established.
One of the key ingredients that we are seeing from our lessons learned so far, if you will, is that the pace that we can...
the Afghan Civilian Assistance Program that you really have championed for so many years was the only program of a forei...
Not offering condolence payments can quickly destroy trust and breed animosity amongst the people against the U.S. milit...
Opening Statement of Senator Patrick J. Leahy
I have been making notes as you and Mr. Chromy have been talking. I intend in the next few weeks to be in both Iraq and ...
Let us hope. I think I am going to go back.
you, Senator Leahy, have been the champion of for so many years is really critical.
I can assure you all three will have my support, both in the Committee and on the floor.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
