we are committed to continue to work with the Congress.

You said it has the potential for saving billions of dollars. We agree. And we are not doing that.

Maybe, how can we change the incentives so that the folks who are making these decisions are incentivized to do that.

I always ask them to give us advice, like, what should we be doing more of, less of?

If we are interested in performance and actually for the Administration to do its job, there is nobody home.

I yield myself the balance of my time. I join my colleagues, the gentleman from Georgia and the gentleman from Florida, in urging unanimous passage of this very important legislation the week before Memorial Day to honor the Devil's…

And the only thing they understand is iron will, and I think this amendment shows the iron will of the committee to stop or take all measures necessary to stop the Iranian regime from obtaining nuclear weapons.

I agree with my colleague from Ohio that this legislation may be the last best chance to stop Iran's nuclear weapons program before an act of war.

I would say that, as your neighbor to the south, the tolling impact would be harmful from our perspective.

I would tell you that a project-specific, merit-based system would be welcomed versus what sometimes appears to be a district-specific, red districts versus blue districts, funding formula that seems to be en vogue at times.

the welts on my back for doing so took a couple of years to heal.

This probably is perhaps the most amazing confirmation process I have seen so far in my short term in the Senate.

We need to seek it here.

the U.S. foreign development programs and budget are important.

I think we should try to give to our development agencies.

But if the financial assistance provided is wildly different among nations, that is a different kind of a trade barrier.

The second question is, from any of you, probably the most significant policy change that is part of the President's development budget, foreign aid budget, is the food aid policy change.

aid done right promotes trade, lays the groundwork for trade.