[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 86 (Tuesday, May 23, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H5384]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                              FOREIGN AID

  (Mrs. SEASTRAND asked given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SEASTRAND. Mr. Speaker, the folks back home on my central coast 
of California understand the need to balance our budget. What they do 
not understand is how the United States can trim waste inside our 
borders, but continue to send money to foreign countries that do not 
support our Republic.
  The American Overseas Interests Act begins as an interesting debate 
over our spending priorities. It will begin to make foreign aid less 
costly, less intrusive, and most importantly, smaller, by eliminating 
three foreign aid bureaucracies, and saving taxpayers $21 billion over 
the next 7 years.
  If there is one thing I have learned, we do not reward those who work 
against us. Yet, that is exactly what we are doing as a country. No 
more. To those countries that vote against the United States in the 
United Nations, support terrorist countries, or spy on the United 
States, they will not receive money from hardworking American 
taxpayers.
  Mr. Speaker, as we downsize the Federal bureaucracy and strive toward 
a balanced Federal budget in the year 2002, all areas of spending must 
be examined. This includes foreign aid.


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