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Ted Yoho: It is a gift, and it is also not constitutional, and it doesn't say in there that we need to do that. So we need to look…

On the recordApril 3, 2014
It is a gift, and it is also not constitutional, and it doesn't say in there that we need to do that. So we need to look at all these things that we are doing, and that is why I say this is a time for a paradigm shift in foreign aid. What we are actually doing--we are doing this in the name of peace, trying to promote peace, but then we turn around with the other hand, and they are giving money to our enemies, so it makes no sense. At this moment, I yield to the great gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Perry).
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Ted Yoho
Republican · Florida
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Apr 3, 2014

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