I greatly, greatly appreciate the work that you all are doing and to help us understand how the United States can be the best possible partner with the rest of the world in addressing these complex and difficult and important issues…

the point that several of you have made is that access is critical.

I want to turn to a different question. As I came in, I believe that, Mr. Worthington, you were talking about the vetting issue.

I know that there is an amendment or a bill being circulated that basically makes military aid to Saudi Arabia contingent upon Saudi Arabia cooperating to open the ports in Yemen.

Leadership is a choice. One form of our leadership is our soft power.

If we are not going to be there for them, they are going to take their business to China.

So we have seen a lot of private fortunes through the Internet companies, social media companies, kind of that whole set of worlds where you create an app, and 6 months later, you are a multi-millionaire.

So I am imaging when you are talking about this, you are talking about a bank that says we have to know more about the recipient before we are willing to make the transfer.

I noticed the additional paragraph that we had proposed, again, that I thought had been included...

So when you are talking about the diaspora community, you are talking about remittances.

How much of that is U.S. requirements versus foreign government requirements?

So this has been a topic of conversation I guess in the Appropriations Committee...

But then you mentioned that this was the fastest growing category.

this is again a disaster happening in four places. It is northeast Nigeria. It is Yemen. It is Somalia, and it is South Sudan.

Well, that was part of my question.

I believe the current language in the law is that AID will be set up as an entity.

So let us continue the conversation beyond this hearing as we have the coming appropriations period.

We have 15 government agencies doing different forms of development. That is crazy.

Yes. Please go ahead, Mr. Worthington.

We need to recognize if we are going to do some sort of reorganization, understand one of the principles is that development is a full-on profession.

Deep cuts to the U.S. Government's International Affairs Budget would be shortsighted, counterproductive, and even dangerous.

Quite challenging. And I think your short answers reflect the complexity of the situation on the ground in different locations and the combination of politics, greed, warfare, all mixing together.

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