Dan Burton: “I think there is a place for a certain amount of foreign aid, but there are a number of areas where we can make some…”

“I think there is a place for a certain amount of foreign aid, but there are a number of areas where we can make some economies and make some cuts. One of those is in the administrative costs over at AID. I want to read a quote from one of the senior staffers at AID. Her name is Sally Shelton, and my colleague, the gentleman from Virginia, has heard me use this quote before. Here is what she said. She said, ``Larry Byrne,'' assistant administrator for management at AID, ``said that AID was 62 percent,'' almost two-thirds of the way, ``through the fiscal year and we have 38 percent of the dollar volume of procurement actions completed; we need to do,'' or spend, ``another $1.9 billion in the next 5 months. There are large pockets of money in the field * * * so let's get moving.'' The indication was that they had not spent enough money, and they wanted to spend this money very rapidly so they could ask for an additional appropriation the next year. That is the kind of craziness that goes on in the bureaucracy that needs to be corrected.”