Sam Farr: “This ideal deserves to be honored here in the capital of the United States, and passage of H.R. 854 would make that…”

My goal for U.S. aid is to achieve a level of effectiveness that every time we provide aid to a region or country it is with the final aim of transitioning them from trade to aid, like we have done in South Korea.

History has shown us what we can get by retreating into a defensive, isolationist crouch.

I passed legislation called Proud to be an American Day. I was hoping that we could do that on the morning of the Fourth of July, but, because it is a Federal holiday, the Federal immigration people don't work that day. So we have been…

If you don't fund the State Department fully then I need to buy more ammunition ultimately.