James T. Callahan: “And my colleagues should have argued these points in the committee where they have the time, where they have the…”

“And my colleagues should have argued these points in the committee where they have the time, where they have the ability, even giving the administration the authority to come in and to tell them what is wrong with these proposals. These feel-good, look-good amendments are wrong. I think that it sounds good to be able to go back to our districts and say, we introduced this resolution on this amendment to this bill that was going to do these certain things. But in my opinion, and it is in all respect, and certainly my colleague is in a position, being on the Committee on International Relations, to have input, to talk to his colleagues on the subcommittee and on the full Committee on International Relations and to try to either put it in report language or suggest that the sense of the Congress is this. But for us to begin amending this bill, telling the administration what they are going to spend their money on, what time of day the ambassadors are going to get up, in my opinion, is absolutely wrong. So I respectfully request that my colleagues recognize that we cannot micromanage to this extent and that they vote against the Sanford amendment.”