It is going to be difficult to get a bill through this year.

By fighting hunger and disease, we fight the despair that can fuel violent extremism and conflict.

If we don't do that, then we don't deserve the privilege we have as citizens of this country.

All of Maryland is in shock--not shock and awe, but shock and awful because of what happened to him.

Why don't we spend some money--we don't have to build the George Washington Parkway--to build a road like the dirt road that I live on in Vermont, where they could actually go 25, 35 miles an hour and bring the food in an hour's time to…

I would hope that we would at least be able to amend the law. I think it would be more helpful to Israel to amend the law to give you the same kind of waiver we have given past administrations for similar laws.

I think General Allen has a good military plan to withdraw.

Here in this subcommittee we have supported USAID's procurement reform.

I will keep the record open until Friday for any further questions.

The foreign aid budget is about 1 percent of the total budget.

The Egyptian military and Mubarak holdovers are trying to silence those who are working for democracy and human rights.

thanks to Senator Leahy, but enough.

Can we do more to engage with the Chinese on the whole range of issues, from climate change to human rights, piracy of intellectual property, and military cooperation?

The Leahy amendment, which prohibits aid to units of foreign security forces that violate human rights, has some strong supporters in the State Department.

we will continue to try to help make those sanctions as effective as possible.

We still do them because it is the right thing to do.

Well, we can't do it. Our law doesn't allow us.

What you said was the right thing for our country and the right thing for those families.

I think it is a symbol of grandiose and unrealistic ambitions in that country.

I am just wondering why we fund big NGOs that have no track record in a country if we have a small NGO that has a good track record?

For $25,000, this well with clean water helped this group protect more than 100,000 people from the threat of cholera.

There are so many things that need to be done in this impoverished country still recovering from an earthquake.

A waiver is a waiver. We would amend the law to add a waiver to it.

Well, I hope it doesn't come to pass. As a bumper sticker slogan, talking about these kind of cuts sounds great.

Republicans and Democrats need to work together the best we can.