Bob Casey

The U.S. Government has pledged more than $320 million in humanitarian assistance.

On the other side are extremists who bomb mosques and markets, destroy schools, murder teachers because they allow girls in the classroom, and kill aid workers.

It's important to realize that most of the displaced are not in camps; they're being hosted by families.

I went because this is such a critically important issue confronting the United States.

And just a quick summary that I'll read highlights of--to give those in the audience who may not sense the size of the human situation we're dealing with.

The Pakistani Government lost its state in Swat Valley

Private aid accounts for approximately 65% of the total flow of foreign assistance from the United States to developing nations.

Let me congratulate you on your leadership on international agriculture. Your bill with Senator Lugar is very much needed.

Congress should not wait for the Administration. It should pass legislation in the nature of the bipartisan draft bill being considered by the Committee.

Isn't it true in this quadrennial review, we want development sitting alongside of diplomacy, but not subservient to diplomacy.

We need a strong AID, and one of the things we need is an AID administrator sooner rather than later.

I just appreciate your answer, and I understand your advocacy for greater financial engagement, and I am an advocate of that myself.

Let me say I am really pleased that we are having this hearing today.

Drought means starvation, and starvation means darkness and death.

In 30 years, the percent of the Earth's surface that was the subject of drought had doubled.

Somehow the last Administration figured out a way to give a couple hundred billion dollars to the top 1 percent.

The rule ought to be here four words when it comes to poor kids and kids with special needs: no kid worse off, no kid worse off.

Unless we get this right in this committee, but more directly and more in a more determinative way in the Finance Committee, and I favor the lifting of Medicaid to a 150 percent of poverty, but even just by doing that, we could put some…

The North Koreans, recently announced that they've suspended the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean war.

Our challenge now is to work with China to turn this commitment into effective implementation of the various Security Council resolutions.

We've had very good discussions--and Senator Casey, who was here earlier on today, has been partner in a bipartisan bill to try to reorganize our food programs.

These are the realities in the world that is facing climate change.

I just want to try to reduce this to something that is manageable, in the understanding of all of us, as to why this is important.

$12 billion later, largely without conditionality, it may not have worked for them, but it certainly didn't work too well for us.

We've spent $12 billion, and we have very little to show for it.