For military construction and the department of Veterans Affairs. During the last congress 3 trillion was spent outside of the normal appropriations process. As spending soared, so did inflation. There was danger, damage done to the economy and the work of the Appropriations Committee changed significantly over those two years. Thats why islanderrier this year i asked subcommittee chairs to evaluate all of the funding in the pipeline. When the president s budget finally arrived, i directed them to review each Agency Budget line by line. I want to thank the subcommittee chairs for their work to identify ways to save hardearned tax dollars. These savings have allowed us to reduce overall spending without shortchanging, most Important National defense and Homeland Security and veterans. The bill before us demonstrates our commitment to reduce overall spending and still honor our commitment to our veterans. This bill makes good on that promise by fully funding Veterans Health care while en
Examining the u. S. Agency for International Developments food for peace program, as well as ways to distribute food more effectively around the world. The Foreign Relations committee will come to order. We are currently facing an historic a humanitarian crisis. The United States continues to be a world leader in providing more than a third of all emergency food today, over 2 billion annually. Sadly, despite our generosity, there are shortfalls due to other nations not meeting the challenge. In that years deliberations, we have the opportunity to do more without having to in more money having to spend more money. A little more than half of our food date is provided by the farm bill, saddling our fees a program with u. S. Commodity and cargo preference requirements. Requires aid to be sourced almost entirely from u. S. Farmers, half of which must be shipped on u. S. Flagged vessels. These restrictions result in spending as little as . 35 to . 40 on a dollar on food. Let me say this one
For Peace Program is the focus on the Senate Foreign relations hearing. We will hear from the director, Catholic Relief Services an official from the Government Accountability office. This runs about an hour and a half. Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. We are currently facing a humanitarian crisis with over 800 Million People worldwide in need of food aid. The us continues to be the world leader providing more than a third of all food aid. Over 2 billion annually. Sadly despite our generosity there are shortfalls for whats needed due to other donor nations not meeting the challenge and in next years farm bill deliberations women opportunity to do more without having to spend more money. A little over half of our food aid is provided through the farm bill with our food for Peace Program. The farm bill requires aid to be sourced almost entirely from us farmers after which must be shipped on us vessels according to cargo preference rules. Of these restrictions resulting spe
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