Dan Burton: “Larry Byrne (Assistant Administrator for Management at AID) said that AID was 62 percent through this fiscal year and we…”

“Larry Byrne (Assistant Administrator for Management at AID) said that AID was 62 percent through this fiscal year and we have 38 percent of the dollar volume of procurement actions completed; we need to do, or spend, $1.9 billion in the next 5 months. There are large pockets of money in the field * * * so let's get moving. Then if you look at a list, and I had a whole litany which I read into the Congressional Record a few minutes ago of wasteful projects, spending projects around the world in Burundi, in Africa, in Central America, Nicaragua, El Salvador and elsewhere, where we have waived millions and billions of dollars. Here we see that the head of the administration, one of the leaders over there, is saying that we have to spend another $1.9 billion in the next 3 to 4 months, otherwise we probably will not get more money next year. The problem is, until we come down hard on the administration of this agency, we are never going to cut that spending, and the American taxpayer does not like foreign aid anyhow, and when there is waste, fraud and abuse, they want something done about it.”