Nita Lowey: “It is difficult to reconcile these worthy goals with the administration's budget request for USAID.”

I urge this Subcommittee to continue its longstanding support for critical people-to-people and peacebuilding programming.

I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. Schrier).

I am delighted to yield 1 minute to the gentlemen from Illinois (Mr. Garcia).

MEPPA offers the one thing that has always stood between proven civil society initiatives and widespread change: the promise of sufficient peacebuilding resources.