Thomas A. Garrett: “Once again, Mr. Speaker, I would like to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Conaway).”

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.

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

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

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