Political Quotes

“earlier today, I offered an amendment to increase the amount of money in the Aid for Africa Program to the number that met the authorization level this Senate passed just a couple months ago. It was an additional $350 million which would be needed to do the $2 billion in bilateral aid to which we committed, plus the $400 million we would need to match roughly $700 million-plus that has now been put forward by other countries for the Global Fund. This bill is, in combination with the foreign operations bill, $350 million short for what I believe is the most important health crisis facing the world and one I would argue is, as far as dollars spent, going to save more lives and improve the quality of life for more people than probably any other single dollar item we are doing in this bill. I believe this is the highest priority.”