H. Callahan: “I said last year on the floor of this House that handling the foreign operations appropriations bill is akin to changing…”

“I said last year on the floor of this House that handling the foreign operations appropriations bill is akin to changing a dirty diaper. It's not a pleasant job but, it's necessary that someone do it. Let me tell the Members, this is not a pleasant task, but our chairman and our ranking committee member have certainly done outstanding work in this regard. However, Mr. Chairman, the bill still does have one very serious flaw, in my opinion, and that serious flaw is in the aid to Russia, but the chairman has been very generous to me, supportive to me, in seeing that the House has the opportunity to debate this issue. I will be offering in just a few minutes an amendment to drastically reduce the aid to Russia.”