Thomas A. Garrett: “May I ask the Chair how much time remains. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from New Jersey has 7 minutes remaining, and…”

I believe that an empowered educated economically-thriving class of women across the world will reduce radicalism and reduce conflict and increase economic opportunity.

Perhaps have we considered a paradigm wherein we tie aid and development to Afghanistan to eradication efforts?

I believe to my very core that the best of the collective is achieved by empowering the individual.

I will consider myself a historian and some lessons are written large on the pages of history, if we are only willing to listen.