Do you feel the business model that we are working with our foreign aid as small as it is, but more importantly with the relationships we are developing with like-minded democracies, is enough to offset that?

I thank Chairman Frelinghuysen for the work he has done with the Appropriations Committee. Mr. Chair, I rise to speak about two important sections of the funding bill: the Agriculture and the State, Foreign Operations Appropriations bill…

If you do that do it in the third person. I am not saying this, but somebody else told me this.

I appreciate you saying that because I just got back from a codel to South Korea and Taiwan and we hear the same thing there, you know, congressional delegation visits, the higher up the better because it shows that cooperation and…

do you find that more effective than just foreign aid through USA--through some other form versus, you know, just giving money out and doling it out like we have done in the past in other countries?

I think that what we are doing in all of Asia I would say is trying to level the playing field for American companies to be able to come in.

I found it astounding that you said 70 percent of the infrastructure needed by 2013 is yet to be built.

I appreciate you bringing that up because it is so important, because we see how China has invested...

Is that enough to fend off the encroachment of China with their investments?

Are the other countries, are we at a point where MCC is going into Bangladesh, the Maldives, Nepal, have we looked at business models?

It really is and that trust builds on the relationships built on that trust and I think it so important.

I look forward to talking about these issues, and trade, as the questioning begins.