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I can tell you exactly where the cuts were made.

Well, what used to be the Office of Micro credit has been downgraded to the Micro credit Development Team.

Why is USAID backing off of its commitment to micro finance?

There have been orders for 20,000 additional American soldiers to be sent to this theatre.

my fear is that we're starting to look at this as a Junior Chamber of Commerce instead of what it was originally destined to be.

The death toll now of Americans is over 700 in Iraq, over 3,000 injured seriously.

I believe you responded to the Chairman by suggesting that we don't have an accurate view of what is happening in Iraq.

The Iraqi police and army, that we trained, were totally ineffective when this offensive started.

But that was their idea of micro credit and micro enterprise, $10,000 a week.

But to suggest that the television reporting of what has happened in Iraq somehow distorts by focusing on isolated instances of violence and conflict is to ignore the reality of the danger of this situation.

Last week, Secretary Rumsfeld, after some extensive questioning, finally conceded that the situation in Iraq is worse today than he thought it would be.

I think this whole program is fatally flawed.

We decided we were going to invent something new.

And we put in rules that are unintelligible to the senators and to the seniors.

although I rise in support of the conference report for the Pension Funding Equity Act, I have serious reservations about the lack of relief for multiemployer pension plans. This provision is yet another instance of the White House…