Patrick Leahy actually said...

"This budget, if enacted, would degrade USAID's ability to carry out its mission."

"We all agree with helping our partners become more self-reliant. But we also have a role."

"This budget would erode decades of progress, including in increasing life expectancy and lifting people out of poverty in developing countries, and promoting democratic values and human rights around ..."

"Foreign assistance actually accounts for only a fraction of 1 percent of the Federal budget."