Nita Lowey: “This is one of the most exciting hearings I attend every, every appropriations session.”

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

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

Congress has the unique opportunity to support the Administration in creating a new strategy that takes a long-term approach.

We must address this situation head-on.