[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 92 (Wednesday, June 7, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H5629-H5630]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                SUPPORT AMERICAN OVERSEAS INTERESTS ACT

  (Mr. KIM asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KIM. Mr. Speaker, today we are going to adopt H.R. 1561, the 
American Overseas Interests Act. Everybody knows that our foreign aid 
programs are among the least accountable to our 
[[Page H5630]] taxpayers and the most dubious in their results. I did 
not say that. That is the letter sent by the Americans for Tax Reform 
group.
  Taxpayer group after taxpayer group sends us letters urging us to 
revise and overhaul this long-overdue, complicated, foreign bureaucracy 
we have.
  This is what we have, how complicated it is. Even Dr. Henry Kissinger 
says that the Agency for International Development is among the worst 
agencies he has ever seen. It is that bad.
  By making common sense from this complicated bureaucratic system we 
have in controlling foreign aid, changing to this, under our new bill, 
from year to year, we can save $1.8 billion.
  That is why we support this bill today. I urge my colleagues to 
support this.

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