Half of the people who are sick today worldwide are sick, needlessly, from water-borne disease.

if there was some kind of language that could be reported out of the subcommittee that directs the Department of State to remove any official or unofficial restrictions on diplomatic contact between the United States and Nagorno Karabakh.

We needed civilians to go do nation risk prevention. That is what stabilization is about.

I spent 10 years of my life with our former colleague, Henry Hyde, working on the Water for the Poor Act, and then its implementation.

I would ask that at a minimum you continue that parity, but I also think it would be a good idea--and I am not going to get into this, you can refer to my written testimony--to try to narrow this waiver, because again we are seeing more…

It doesn't seem like much money, but it has a huge impact on the ground.

I think that is impact for taxpayer dollars. That is how lives are saved, but it is also how we advance our broader national interests and resilient and stable societies, one community at a time.

This is something that is very unlikely to end up in some despot's bank account in Switzerland.

I would ask, though, that you include $8 million in FMF and $2 million in IMET funding for Armenia in fiscal year 2011.

I would urge the subcommittee to approve the $3.1 billion in military assistance for Israel in the next fiscal year.

Congresswoman Lowey, I was in New York when Secretary Clinton entered into an agreement to look at conditional cash transfers.

I hope that this subcommittee retains the provisions that I have worked on for many, many years, barring the establishment of permanent military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.