Rob Andrews: “If you had to take an educated guess, is the present level of U.S. aid sufficient to sustain economic development in…”

The best scenario of the four is the status quo, which is grim. The other three compete in terms of their grimness.

Reclaiming my time, the Senate passed a bill to keep the government running at your numbers that you wanted in budget. We are asking, give every Member of this House a fair up-or-down vote on that bill. Will you do that? I yield to the…

I believe that this rebalancing is the right priority for the country.

I understand this is a conceptual proposal, but we don't legislate concepts; we legislate statutes and they have real impact on real people.