Sam Farr: “I would love to have this budget for my town, where we really do have threats.”

Following the administration's path forward for our international affairs budget is the equivalent of retreat.

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.

If you want stable democracy and you are a highly religious society, it simply won't work without religious freedom.

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