None of this is your fault, but I don't know a single area of government that is more widely misunderstood back home or more widely criticized because lots of constituents think that somehow the, quote, 'foreign aid budget,' is almost half of government spending, and if we could just eliminate it, then we could cut our taxes or balance the budget.
Cooper addresses misconceptions about foreign aid and its budget impact.
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I thank the gentleman. I appreciate his kind words about me and do any other members have questions they would like to bring up now?
When I got to the Congress years ago for the first time, in the 1980's, there was an unspoken rule that all politics stopped at the water's edge.
We have a disproportionate number of members of the Republican Party dying in my state.
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