What is so sacrosanct, what is so untouchable about the foreign operations budget that we want to fence it off, not to touch it? Mr. President, the time has come to limit that foreign aid budget and give it the same scrutiny we give all other areas of the budget.
Arguing for closer scrutiny of foreign aid spending.
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