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[The following is a verbatim transcript of the Secretary's statement before the Senate Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs, April 9, 2008.]
Secretary Rice: Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Let me thank the members of this Committee for the work that we have done together over the last several years. I think that despite sometimes differences on policy or on tactics, we have always tried to work in the interests of the United States of America. And I think that we have agreed that that has meant that America needed to represent not just power but also principle. We've worked together to put together an agenda, a compassion agenda that we see in evidence in places like Africa, with the President's Emergency Program For AIDS Relief, for the malaria program that we have. We have been able to quadruple development assistance to Africa, to triple it worldwide, and to double it for Latin America.
Without this committee, we would not be--not have been able to meet the challenges that we have had in having our diplomats and our civilians in some of the most dangerous places in the...
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