Sam Farr: “I would be very appreciative if you could also recommend to the Committee if these rural caps that we put on programs…”

So here we are going to take all our staff, and you have got to go through double, triple inspection, but Members can walk in here with a weapon and you don't even know if they have it, to get away with it.

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.

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

But not our staffs. Haven't had a COLA increase in 5 years.