James T. Callahan

First, this bill includes a tremendous Republican accomplishment--the creation of a new $600 million child survival and disease prevention account. Each year millions of innocent children die from indiscriminate diseases. In most cases…

it must be confusing to the people who are watching this, both in the gallery and on C-SPAN, about what we are talking about today. During this time of our political careers in history, it is an election year. It is like selling Coca-Cola…

to those thousands of American senior citizens around the country that might be watching this today, I want to tell them that we are having a lot of fun seemingly at their expense. We have some people who are more interested in the…

I just want to echo what the gentleman from Florida was talking about, and to tell the gentleman that the day has already arrived. Just yesterday in my district, a press release came from the Alabama shipyard, and it is based upon whether…

I once again rise reluctantly in opposition to the amendment that the gentleman from Wisconsin would offer, because I deeply respect his vast knowledge of world affairs. However, while I hold my friend's foreign policy views in high…

what we say on the floor of this House is taken very seriously by countries all over the world, and I hope that some day we will be able to convey our appreciation to the Turks for the contributions that they have made in the past.

I have no reservation whatsoever about including this subject matter in the hearing that we have scheduled. The hearing we have scheduled is to discuss some of what I think are unfair business practices by the Government of Kuwait. But we…

I believe that it is our role as Members of Congress not to dictate foreign policy to the executive branch but to express strong messages of concern to the State Department on human rights violations by countries who receive U.S. foreign…

this bill reduces the President's request by $1 billion. I know there are some in this House and in the administration who would like to have more money, but we are having to sacrifice in every area of government and I do not think…

Well, I think the gentleman is going to have to look at both accounts because the amount recommended, the gentleman from Indiana is right, is $144 million more than the amount requested by the administration, but $525 million less than the…

Well, in any event, even though if we take out development assistance, child survival, then we are still $63 million below the President's request and $25 million below the 1996 level.

It does make it right when I say that the House level of $465 million was the amount of money that we appropriated through the House, and naturally the chairman of the committee agrees with us because he did not object to raising it to the…

Mr. Chairman, I appreciate where the gentleman is coming from, and certainly, if anybody is in favor of cutting expenses of this huge Federal Government it is me. but we have worked in a bipartisan manner to reduce Federal aid responsibly…

I recognize the frustration, I recognize the position of the two gentlemen from Illinois, but their reason for being here today is because of an administrative decision. Someone said that the White House called down to the Eximbank and…

Mr. Chairman, the Committee on Appropriations has reported a 1997 foreign operations and export financing bill that is balanced, compassionate, and supportive of our national interest. It has bipartisan support. The bill the House is…

Because we have advised them to do more, and No. 1, we get something in return for this. This is not going to go on forever. These people buy Caterpillar machines, they buy shrimp boats from Bayou Le Batre Alabama, they buy supplies made…

how many agencies does the gentleman know of that are creating thousands of jobs? How many agencies does he know of that created $17 billion in American exports and 340,000 American jobs? That is a part of our overall policy. I would say…

I do not differ with my colleague on the merits of this amendment. The committee has carried this provision for several years. However, the committee did not carry the provision this year at the specific request of Chairman Gilman of the…

I am aware of the difficult humanitarian situation facing the people of Kosovo and agree that OFDA should provide $6 million for humanitarian relief in Kosovo again in fiscal year 1997.

In the subcommittee it was only $419 and in full committee it was only $419, and when it first passed the House it was $419. Then the conferees went over to the Senate and compromised at $465, not the House, and then brought the…

It is misleading when the gentleman says that this is more than the House passed. As we go through the committee process, as we go through the conference process, the final bill that the House voted on gave $465 million.

But the bottom line is, if the gentleman totals all of the columns, we are $25 million below 1996. That is the bottom line. As to explaining the difference in the three funds and the shifting of the child survival account, which was not…

the bureaucracy was growing until such time as I became chairman of this subcommittee, and since that time, the bureaucracy is downsizing. I know we are not doing it as rapidly as the gentleman would like, but we are not hemorrhaging like…

Well, the development fund for Africa was requested at $704 million. I know where the gentleman from Indiana is coming from, but my point to him, that if we take into consideration what we passed in 1996 for this current fiscal year and…

Well, I think what we are saying, and I think if the gentleman from Indiana will go further on to the bottom of the page to the last line, it says, however, a different mix of programming was provided in 1996 and in budget requests, which…