The United States is deeply committed to two critical things in Sudan. One is effective implementation of the North-South Peace Agreement, the CPA, and the other is saving lives and ending the suffering in Darfur.

We need to pursue this legislation, but we also need to pursue an administrative solution to this situation, which is very possible.

I would also like to take the opportunity to give a special thanks to my congresswoman, the Honorable Sheila Jackson Lee of the 18th District of Texas for her support in facilitating my testimony here today.

We have been very thankful for the support we have received from Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee and other members of the Houston delegation, in particular, Gene Green in the House, as well as Mr. Maffei of this Committee, who introduced…

I am very interested in what criteria were used to determine which dealers are allowed to remain in business and those which weren't, particularly minority dealers.

Congress should not wait for the Administration. It should pass legislation in the nature of the bipartisan draft bill being considered by the Committee.

Let me congratulate you on your leadership on international agriculture. Your bill with Senator Lugar is very much needed.

private aid accounts for approximately 65% of the total flow of foreign assistance from the United States to developing nations.

Let me say I am really pleased that we are having this hearing today.

We need a strong AID, and one of the things we need is an AID administrator sooner rather than later.

Isn't it true in this quadrennial review, we want development sitting alongside of diplomacy, but not subservient to diplomacy.

I just appreciate your answer, and I understand your advocacy for greater financial engagement, and I am an advocate of that myself.

in 30 years, the percent of the Earth's surface that was the subject of drought had doubled.

drought means starvation, and starvation means darkness and death.

How can we work with the manufacturers to make them whole, to place them back in their community, to keep the jobs and to make them the viable, economic engines that they are?

A small plane could cause damage in a catastrophic event. Could it not?

You have destroyed the entire industry in the Nation's capitol.

What we do have should be secure. But it does not mean that we cannot look in an open-minded manner at how we can restore general aviation in this area.