Tony Hall: “Child survival activities, basic education, vitamin A, micronutrients programs, they work. And they save millions of…”

“Child survival activities, basic education, vitamin A, micronutrients programs, they work. And they save millions of lives. And they do its very inexpensively. Mr. Chairman, last year the gentleman and I worked very hard to achieve the same numbers for child survival, basic education and micronutrients. One was 275. Basic education was 135, and vitamin A, basic nutrients, was 25 million. What is more, U.S. AID practically bragged in their report language, in their recent report to Congress, that there programs were worth their weight in gold. They surprisingly, AID, decided to hold back child survival funds in fiscal year 1994. They ignored the gentleman's strong support language. They put resources into programs that I believe stray from what real foreign aid should be all about. Mr. Chairman, what I would most like to accomplish in our discussion here today is a commitment, a partnership to jointly monitor AID in the coming year to make sure that they spend the dollars the gentleman has provided for these extremely worthwhile programs. I want my resolve to be interpreted as a warning that we will not tolerate AID ignoring the committee's strong language that tells the agency to spend these hard-won resources as we think they should.”