Thomas A. Garrett: “So the gentleman agrees that there is only partial information at this point in time out there.”

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

I am prepared to close if the gentlewoman from Oregon would like to conclude her remarks.

We have an ability--and a responsibility... to be a check on executive power by virtue of speaking when we are in disagreement.

These promises of fairness manifest themselves in the uniform distribution of poverty and suffering.