Sam Farr: “The Congress can take the blame. They asked for $150 million, and we gave them $10 million.”

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

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…

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

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.