Dan Burton: “I would like to just restate what my colleague has stated. That is that we are not cutting aid to India. We are going to…”

“I would like to just restate what my colleague has stated. That is that we are not cutting aid to India. We are going to give them the same amount of developmental aid we did last year. We are just not giving them an $8.3 million increase, and we are doing that to send them a message. A lot of my colleagues have just said this is going to be a cataclysmic experience if we do this. That does not make any sense. My colleagues know it. The fact of the matter is that all we want to do is send a signal that the United States will not tolerate these human rights abuses. Some of my colleagues have talked about Libya and other terrorist states and the kinds of human rights abuses that are going on there. They are right, there are horrible human rights abuses. But we do not give them aid. Wherever we do give aid and there are human rights abuses, we should cut that aid to send a signal. We are our brother's keeper. Almost every speaker who spoke here tonight has admitted there are human rights abuses in Kashmir, Punjab, Jagaland and elsewhere in India.”