07/27/2009
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"First of all, I join the chairman in thanking you for your incredible service to this country and to our global goals."
"I strongly support our food program and our development assistance programs. I always have."
"I strongly support a more robust Federal budget for development assistance, including food aid."
"When I first came to the U.S. Congress in 1987, we could not pass a foreign aid bill."