02/25/2019
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"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to thank you and the ranking member for holding this important markup today."
"we're not there the way that--when I talked to our allies and Africa in particular, talk to them, they said, you just--we want you to be our partners. You're not there."
"there are Republican proposals that went through that would have had the effect of 22 percent budget cut on USAID, Commerce, State Department."
"if we're going to put a--you know, if we're going to be there and we're going to put ourselves on the field you have to fund a team"