Thomas A. Garrett: “I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page…”

I have implored my peers and superiors on this committee to remember the words of Arthur Vandenberg, that politics stop at the water's edge.

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

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

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