Jim Costa actually said...

Mr. Secretary, you mentioned that the President's budget for food aid also improves our ability to respond in these humanitarian situations.

The United States established itself as one of the global leaders, and we have led for decades, in international food aid.

As you know, we are concurrently undergoing negotiations for the TPP effort with many of these Asian nations and also with Canada.

I would suggest that maybe the Subcommittee considers, if there was some interest to submitting a bipartisan letter to the Appropriations Co...