Jeff Merkley actually said...

The ability to provide an alternative strategy for cooking fires could be a very significant factor in cutting off funding for al-Shabaab.

Zeroing out that budget means putting millions of people at risk of starvation and I hope that we can work with you so that doesn't happen.

It's important that the U.S. rally the world to respond.

I think everyone has concluded this will not happen without an extremely coordinated international response.