I would urge, if you have any control, to work with us to make sure this beef doesn't come in until they have the safeguards in place.

What is being done as far as industry or business development in that area and are we focussing on that?

All I am saying is get rid of those resolutions and you can have the foreign assistance back.

we do not continue to treat a symptom and not a causative agent or the underlying cause of the problems

I would like to focus on trade, not aid

I propose that all foreign aid is cut to the Palestinian Authority until they remove those two resolutions.

If we are serious we need to be serious and say until you remove those resolutions from your--I am not telling you how to live--I am just saying take those resolutions off your book if you want our assistance.

We need to work with our partners in doing it because the United States can play an important role on this but it is not something that we can do alone.

I thank the gentleman from Texas for your passion. I think it is so true, that we see this so many times. You said that foreign aid is not--it's a gift from the American taxpayers.

I want to thank my colleagues for joining me tonight to talk about foreign aid and saving hard-earned American taxpayers' dollars. With April 15 fast approaching, Americans will be filling out their tax returns and sending a portion of…

I appreciate your participation in this and your leadership on so many other things that you have done. Thank you for being here. I yield back the balance of my time. ____________________

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…