Sam Farr: “I think what we need to do is leave behind or allow staff members from the Library of Congress and CRS to travel to…”

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.

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

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.