On the recordJanuary 17, 2018
I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I want to thank the gentleman from South Carolina for his very thoughtful amendment. His amendment addresses an issue dear to our heart, and that is economic freedom. By making the bill even more explicit in its support for entrepreneurship, his contribution makes a good piece of legislation better. Still, it is important to remember that the poor, wherever they may be in the world, can succeed if their government lets them, and that is a principle we should all wholeheartedly support. I hope the World Bank will subscribe to it as well. I would just say one other thing about the debate that has transpired here today. This is hardworking American taxpayers' generosity. It is their charity. It is the American taxpayers trying to help people who live in impoverished countries. It is unfair to hardworking taxpayers and it dishonors the generosity of the American people to not hold the World Bank accountable. I applaud the gentleman, Mr. Norman, for his amendment, which will unleash entrepreneurship in these lesser developed countries.
