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“MORE FOREIGN AID CUTS URGED” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the House of Representatives section on pages H4918 on May 15, 1995.
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MORE FOREIGN AID CUTS URGED
(Mr. FUNDERBURK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. FUNDERBURK. Mr. Speaker, America's foreign policy structure needs to be overhauled. The current system is a relic of the cold war. It is duplicative and inefficient, and its foreign aid programs are a disaster.
Despite billions of dollars, those we have given aid to are mired in poverty. In fact, we have done these countries more harm than good by promoting socialist economic and agricultural programs. Of the 15 countries receiving the most U.S. aid, the Heritage Foundation's freedom index rates 12 as ``mostly unfree,'' 1 has a repressed economy, and 2 are rated ``mostly free.''
A foreign aid program which supposedly buys the good will of foreign leaders while they ruin their own countries cannot be tolerated. If it is to be handed out it must promote free market reforms. Also a majority of the countries receiving U.S. aid consistently vote against us at the U.N. Foreign aid must be tied to America's interests. Is it not about time we had an American desk at the State Department.
At a time we are talking about cutting back on housing, student aid, and farming programs it is not fair to cut foreign policy programs by only $1 billion each year for the next 5 years as the International Relations Committee bill does. It is not enough. Streamlining the State Department's bureaucracy both here and abroad is vital. Let us tell the American people that we are serious about setting new priorities for American foreign policy. Let us cut the fat at Foggy Bottom.
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