Thomas A. Garrett: “At this point, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Oklahoma, a member of the Budget Committee, Mr. Lankford.”

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

The Voice of America, when properly levied, has been instrumental to the freedom of literally hundreds of millions of people and that shouldn't be underestimated.

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?