Jim Kolbe

Yes, there are. And I think actually USAID has undertaken, in these last several years, a lot of those reforms.

Do you believe that there are reforms that can be made within the U.S. Government, USAID in particular, to help capture and effectively utilize the enthusiasm from these communities?

If you fold it into the State Department completely, what you are doing is you are subjecting it to the political considerations.

We must honestly acknowledge the failures of our foreign assistance programs, such as in a country like Zimbabwe.

MFAN advocates for responsible reforms to increase the effectiveness of U.S. foreign assistance programs.

I would like to commend the Chairman and Ranking Member for convening this hearing and for keeping the Committee focused on the importance of U.S. global leadership, effective partnership, and good development practices.

It has been a vocal advocate for elevating development as a national security pillar equal to that of defense and diplomacy.

I want to commend both the chairman and the ranking member and this committee for keeping the committee focused on the importance of U.S. global leadership, effective partnership, and good development practices.

This is certainly a timely topic to be talking about today as we consider the impact of United States assistance and contrast this with the foreign affairs budget for fiscal year 2018 which, as proposed, would significantly reduce our…

It is a great pleasure to be able to testify today especially with this distinguished panel who are really the practitioners of public-private partnerships.

This is the moment for the United States and Europe to negotiate the boldest, broadest trade and investment agreement we have ever contemplated since World War II.

It is very clear that the core of it, I think, is still there, and so in that regard, I think it is a good and a workable piece of legislation.

It is an unfairness that exists, and we hope that it will be corrected.

As I have the right to close and I am the only speaker on my side, I reserve the balance of my time.

I would make the point of order unless the gentleman would like to say anything further before I make my point of order.

I thank the gentlewoman, for her commitment to this issue here. Amendment No. 18 Offered by Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas

It is not the money, however, that goes to assist refugees overseas. It is admissions.

The gentlewoman from Oregon has described this precisely. We all recognize that methamphetamine is a terrible problem. I represent a border district in a border State; we have a terrible problem with that with Mexico. The gentlewoman has…

If I am correct, I think I have 30 seconds remaining, and I will yield the balance of my time to the gentleman.

The report accompanying H.R. 5522 does indicate the committee's awareness of the Gift of Life International's Project Iraqi Hearts. It is an initiative that should be thoroughly explored. The ranking minority member and I are both…

The gentleman has identified a problem that we think is absolutely of critical importance. We have moved from, I believe, no money just in 2003 to 1 million to 5 million to $7 million in this year, so I think we are moving very…

If there is a positive outcome to it, it's probably going to be that, but it's going to be employers that are going to be saying we need to resolve this issue.

So many of them have back home taken a position that it's not only, no, but heck no. We won't do anything that isn't border security.

We have the technology that can change that. But it's got to go hand in hand with the fact that people are going to come here to take these jobs.