Ted Poe: “Over the last week, we have watched as anti- American groups throughout the world have killed Americans, attacked our…”

“Over the last week, we have watched as anti- American groups throughout the world have killed Americans, attacked our embassies, had protests, burned the American flag, and destroyed our property in many parts of the world. These events and events that have preceded them bring up that question again that these countries that we give aid to seem to be countries where there is violence against America. So I want to spend a few minutes talking about the aid Americans, when they write that check to the government, our government, spend all over the world. This is a map of countries in the world that the United States of America taxpayers give assistance to worldwide. You'll see there are three colors. The red are colors that the United States gives foreign aid to. And you can see that's most of the countries in the world--and it is most of the countries. There are 191 countries in the world. Sometimes there are 193, depending on whether those last two are really countries or not. And American taxpayers give money to 158 of them. So you see those that are in the red. The green represents countries that we give military aid to. And the few little blue countries--a couple in Europe, a couple in Africa--those are countries we don't give any money to. By far, the minority. So you see the massive world as we know it, American money goes to most of it. Now you notice over here there's a red block in this part of the world. And I'm sure, Mr.…”