Jerry Moran: “Mr. Speaker, as my colleagues know, we are at a crossroads in world history, really, and we find ourselves with…”

“Mr. Speaker, as my colleagues know, we are at a crossroads in world history, really, and we find ourselves with tremendous responsibility on our shoulders. The whole rest of the world looks to us as the single superpower to lead them to a safer, to a fairer, a more prosperous world, and a world that reflects our principles of democracy, of freedom of expression, of freedom of religion, of respect for human rights, and three principal instruments that we have available to use to achieve these objectives are the Agency for International Development, U.S. Information Agency, and the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. The Agency for International Development has, in fact, developed quite a pool of unspent money, as was cited earlier, but they have done that because they also want to use that agency for leverage, to get recipients to respect human rights, to respect the democratic process, to develop economically without exploiting the people.”