Political Quotes

“I thank the manager and the chairman and ranking member of this committee. State, foreign operations, and related programs are the face of America, the most powerful nation in the world, the nation that the world looks to for guidance and direction in the interactions of this world. I am saddened to say that this face has been altered and threatened desperately by some of the shortchanges in the funding. The threat to national security by abdicating U.S. leadership, and the underfunding of the U.N. Development Program and the U.N., the underfunding of the State Department, and the threat to women's health equality globally around the world, is why my amendment is so very important, and I ask my colleagues to support it. I thank the Rules Committee, and I thank the subcommittee, for my amendment is an important and potentially lifesaving amendment in an unfortunate and distracting approach to State and foreign relations. My amendment increases funds by $1 million and decreases funding by $1 million for the global health programs account to highlight and support the fight against the practice of female genital mutilation. I have been a dedicated champion of this and introduced legislation in years past supporting the elimination of this very difficult and ludicrous practice of mutilating young women around the world.…”