Administration of Fiscal Year 1996 International Affairs Budget Request

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Excerpt from Administration of Fiscal Year 1996 International Affairs Budget Request: Hearing Before the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, March 30, 1995 The committee met, pursuant to call, at 2:03 p.m., in room 2172, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Benjamin A. Gilman (chairman of the committee) presiding. Chairman Gilman. The committee will come to order. We welcome Secretary Christopher to this afternoon's hearing on the administration's fiscal year 1996 budget request for International Affairs. Secretary Christopher, it is a pleasure having you with us once again. Secretary Christopher will be followed by a panel that will include Brian Atwood, the Administrator of the Agency for International Development and Lieutenant General Thomas Rhame, the Director of the Defense Security Assistance Agency. For nearly 50 years, our American foreign policy has been shaped predominantly by the challenges of the Cold War. The economic and security assistance programs that we established to support the cause of freedom and the institutions to carry them out trace their bipartisan roots to the Truman Doctrine and to the Marshall Plan of 1947, and the critical support was provided by the Republican Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Arthur Vandenberg. With the end of the Cold War, we heard a great deal about the need to rethink the architecture of our foreign policy. With annual budget deficits running annually in the range of $200 billion, there is no question that we are going to have to reshape, reform and reduce our assistance programs as well as the organizations that implement them. In so doing, we will strengthen our ability to meet the new challenges and take advantage of the new opportunities that await as we enter the next century. Today's hearing marks a major step in that process. It has been said that a government states its real policy through its budget. If that is so, then the Clinton administration has, with this budget, stated that its policy is regrettably, business as usual. After two years of impressive gains on cutting the federal deficit, the administration's latest budget projects deficits as far as the eye can see. It is now going to be up to the Congress to balance the federal books. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.