Thomas A. Garrett: “I think we have one more speaker. I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Austin Scott).”

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.

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.