Families all throughout this great country still do not have the closure they deserve after so many years, and it is time that North Korea told the truth about their whereabouts.

There are over 10,000 Federal programs and counting. No one quite knows how many there are. I do most of my work in Congress on manufacturing; and for 12 years, I've been working on a chart to identify every agency, every bureau that is…

I missed rollcall No. 857. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay.'' ____________________

I missed rollcall Nos. 854, 855, and 856. Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye.'' General Leave

I would invite anyone at USAID to come to a town hall and stand in front of American taxpayers and say, 'Giving foreign aid to China is a good idea.'

It is not self-sustaining when you are asking the taxpayers to pony up $1 million.

The President's budget did not request any money for the U.S.-China Partnership for Environmental Law?

We are borrowing money from China to give back to China to improve industrial energy efficiency, which will then drive down production costs to Chinese firms.

Well, I understand that. You don't need us to tell you that spending taxpayers' money on programs called 'Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll, and Wildlife' is outrageous.

This is just absolutely misguided thinking.

We are borrowing money from China to give it to China to do stuff that the Chinese don't think is important enough to pay for.

Most Americans have a very difficult time, especially in my district, understanding [foreign aid].

Then why is the U.S. taxpayer paying for this?

Why can't China, a nation with the world's second largest economy, use its own funds?

It is absurd to think that any U.S. Government entity would spend a single dollar trying to encourage China to do the right thing.

Can't you see why Congress is angry over the way you are spending money?

Well, then, why have you given us four programs for which he has requested no money?

We need to be supporting U.S. manufacturers in Illinois and nationwide to compete with China, not throwing money away to help China compete with us.

What is being proposed here, essentially, is that we borrow money from China to give back to China to help it fix its own domestic problems, many of which were created in the breakneck rush to develop.

It seems to me that giving the Chinese Government American aid at the expense of the American taxpayer to try and force compliance is an ill-advised strategy.

The idea that we would give foreign aid to China is an insult to the American taxpayer and shows an incredible lack of understanding of the new world by anyone who would suggest it.

Yet, still you are asking the taxpayers to put more money into a program that already has generous support by the private sector.

Even more troubling, our national debt is dangerously high at over $14.9 trillion.

Most Americans have a very difficult time understanding foreign aid.

I hear complaints from our small business constituents back home about the difficulty in raising capital. Today we have an opportunity to fix one aspect of this problem so that our Nation's small businesses can obtain the funds that they…