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…

Thank you for your opening statement, Ambassador Wells.

We may be cutting some programs, but we are going to replace it with the goodwill... humanitarian assistance.

I know we are going through some fiscal challenges in our country, there will be austerity measures as we have seen, but that doesn't mean you move away from the investments we have already made.

It is a geopolitical effort to deal with Pakistan, and one that we should not encourage.

We wanted to make sure that the investment we made stays, and the long-term benefit of that is there in the long term.

We must reauthorize the North Korean Human Rights Act to continue supporting human rights in North Korea.

We focus on aid not trade--I mean trade not aid, so that we can wean countries off.

I came up here, I was one of the guys that wanted to get rid of foreign aid.

I think this is something, it is like anything else in life, if you have got a problem, if you ignore it it is not going to go away, it will get worse, and it is going to be worse to deal with and more expensive and more costly.

Austerity cuts are coming to this country. We know that.

I am not willing to enter another conflict. I don't want to.