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Well, the administration for this particular area asked for $1,006,000,000. Did they not include those other things the gentleman from Alabama wanted in there? Is that what the gentleman is saying? The administration in that $1,006,000,000…
they have over 8,000 employees, and you are cutting 200. They have 8,000 employees, and you are talking about these children survival programs. I am not cutting the children survival programs. I am cutting the administrative overhead of…
I think that is excessive. I think the committee of jurisdiction and authorizing made the right decision. That is why I support the cut.
in 1996 in the foreign aid authorization bill for fiscal year 1996 and 1997, the House Committee on International Relations authorized only $419,000,000, $5,000,000 in operating expenses for AID for fiscal year 1997. The cut in this…
the whole premise of my argument is this: The administration, the President of the United States and his administration, asked for 1 billion, 6 million dollars for development assistance. This bill, according to the way I read it, has 1…
let me just say, as I said in my statement here, that Azerbaijan, 20 percent of Azerbaijan is occupied by the Armenians. Let me just say, they are in talks right now, and the Turkish Government and the Armenians are in consultation with…
The bill is very confusing, if the gentleman is accurate, and I think that to present this to the Congress when we are trying to go through and save the taxpayers' money, and I have great respect for my colleague; when he gets something…
Maybe the gentleman can explain to me what it says on page 13 near the bottom of the page in the bill. Says development assistance. It gives a fiscal year 1996 level. It gives the gentleman's request or the President's request, and it…
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…
Now I do not understand what the gentleman is saying there. He is saying that he is below the President's request. I got the President's request for developmental assistance here in front of me, and it says $1,006,000,000, and the…
In the area of development aid, the Clinton administration asked for $1.6 billion in developmental aid for fiscal year 1997. The committee recommendation is for $1.150 billion, or $144 million more than what the administration requested…
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…
The inadvertent depiction, I hope, that Muslims in America are out to overthrow our government, at least that is the way I interpreted it. I said there is a messianic totalitarian movement in Iran and Sudan that would spread across the…
I am convinced beyond any reasonable doubt that these things are occurring. All I am asking tonight is to send a signal. I am not saying cut off all developmental aid to India, I am not saying cut off every dollar, although I think we…
we have talked about human rights violations that may or may not have taken place 70 years ago, but what I want to talk about tonight are human rights violations that are taking place today. First of all, let me just say if we were not…
if there is a gun pointed at an individual's back taking that person to the polls, and that person goes in and votes, they are not going to turn in a blank ballot. The gentleman knows that and I know that. When we talk about Punjab and…
I would just like to ask one question rhetorically and that is this: If you lived in a neighborhood and you were a Muslim in Kashmir and they held you at gunpoint in your home and a bunch of soldiers took your wives down the street, out in…
let me say this. This is an article that is less than 1 month old. The gentleman talked about the free elections. On May 24, this is a report here in the Washington Newspapers, armed troops, armed troops herded Kashmirians to the polls…
Mr. Chairman, we have debated the so-called Armenian genocide issue for the past 13 years. I can remember when I stood at this table with a stack of books this high from historical experts who had studied the so-called Armenian genocide…
If I might conclude, my concern is these human rights violations do occur. All I want to do tonight is send a signal to the Indian government that we do not approve and that there ought to be some change in policy. It is not punitive from…
I have studied this issue and debated this issue for 13 years, and I am telling you that we have brought history book after history book after history book and stuck them up on this table, and there is a strong divergence of opinion about…
What we are doing is dredging up an issue that happened 70 years ago, if it happened at all, and there is a divergence of opinion, and we are penalizing a friend based upon that erroneous information.
this week, the President's business partners in the Whitewater venture were found guilty of a total of 22 counts of bank fraud. James and Susan McDougal were President and Mrs. Clinton's business partners in the Whitewater Development…
for many years I have talked about the horrible human rights violations that have been talking place around the world, but in particular in a place called Punjab in Kashmir and Nagaland in India. Because of that, I have been the target of…
According to experts, 70 percent of all crime in this country is caused by people who are dealing in drugs or are drug related one way or another. Our kids are being infected by the drug culture. It is destroying our inner cities and our…
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