On the recordJune 7, 1995
Today we are going to adopt H.R. 1561, the American Overseas Interests Act. Everybody knows that our foreign aid programs are among the least accountable to our taxpayers and the most dubious in their results. I did not say that. That is the letter sent by the Americans for Tax Reform group. Taxpayer group after taxpayer group sends us letters urging us to revise and overhaul this long-overdue, complicated, foreign bureaucracy we have. This is what we have, how complicated it is. Even Dr. Henry Kissinger says that the Agency for International Development is among the worst agencies he has ever seen. It is that bad. By making common sense from this complicated bureaucratic system we have in controlling foreign aid, changing to this, under our new bill, from year to year, we can save $1.8 billion. That is why we support this bill today. I urge my colleagues to support this.
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