James T. Callahan

We have to look at the bottom line. We have readjusted the accounts. If we look at the bottom line for all of the funds for USAID, then we are $63 million below the President's request and $25 billion below the 1996 level. If we include…

I agree that assistance to Africa is important. That is why I recommended authority to allow the administration to forgive government debt owned to the United States by the Ivory Coast. However, the authorizing committee chairman objected…

a delegation of this House went to Bosnia last weekend, and we met with the American military leaders in that war torn country, and it was unanimous from Admiral Smith to General Nash to the head of the 1st Army. Every single military man…

I am aware that the propeller shop and foundry have been recognized as a core mission by the Navy. The Navy has stated that it is critical to our national security that it remain operational in support of the fleet. This amendment would…

once again, and I have risen so many times in the last several years talking about the very ill-conceived program that the administration fostered in creating an ability of the United States to fund houses for Russian soldiers.

I did not vote for President Clinton, but he is our commander in chief, and the Constitution very clearly gives the responsibility of foreign affairs to the President of the United States.

I rise in total support of the rule. I want to tell all the Members on both sides of the aisle that throughout the entire 27 hours of debate on this issue, I have tried diligently to work with both sides. I have tried to work and have…

Mr. Chairman, two of the three remaining amendments, ironically, are amendments that impact a possible cut to aid in Ethiopia and to Kenya, two nations in Africa. I find that rather amusing, but let me compliment the gentlewoman from…

I do stand by my philosophy; that I think it is a very serious mistake for this Congress, or any Congress, to interfere this way in the ability of the administration to have a foreign policy. I think that the President has selected Warren…

I also am opposed to the amendment. Mr. Chairman, let me start off by saying that everyone in this Chamber and everyone in this Congress, if not everyone in this country, is concerned about human rights violations throughout the world…