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On the recordSeptember 28, 2023
I guess I am totally confused, then, because I don't know why we would want to cut off the funds for children through UNICEF, UNDP, and other agencies when, in fact, the gentlewoman should take this to the Foreign Affairs Committee. That is where her initiative belongs. In terms of the authorizing process, that belongs in the Foreign Affairs Committee. It doesn't belong here on an appropriations bill to defund programs that are providing badly needed malnutrition services for children. We can't just cut this off. These are appropriated funds the authorizing committee authorizes, and that is where this belongs. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
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