Gerry Connolly actually said...

If you actually look at its track record, warts and all, it has been a strong investment tool for the United States.

We cannot take the entitlement mentality to the issue of deploying U.S., scarce, limited, precious U.S. assets anywhere in the world.

These are not choices that we have to make in terms of either/or, these are choices that both need to be made.

Aid is not an entitlement. There has to be accountability. There have to be metrics, otherwise it is not worth doing.