Y 4.AP6/1:F76/6/994/PT.3 FOREIGN OPERATIONS, EXPORT FINANCING, AND FOREIGN OPERATIONS, EXPORT FINANCING, AND HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED THIRD CONGRESS FIRST SESSION SUBCOMMITTEE ON FOREIGN OPERATIONS, EXPORT FINANCING, AND TERRY R. PEEL, WILLIAM E. SCHUERCH, MARK M. MURRAY, Staff Assistants, PART 3 TESTIMONY OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND OTHER INTERESTED INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS 66-455 O Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1993 For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, Washington, DC 20402 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS WILLIAM H. NATCHER, Kentucky, Chairman JAMIE L. WHITTEN, Mississippi, Vice Chairman NEAL SMITH, Iowa SIDNEY R. YATES, Illinois DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania W. G. (BILL) HEFNER, North Carolina BOB CARR, Michigan RICHARD J. DURBIN, Illinois RONALD D. COLEMAN, Texas ALAN B. MOLLOHAN, West Virginia JIM CHAPMAN, Texas MARCY KAPTUR, Ohio DAVID E. SKAGGS, Colorado DAVID E. PRICE, North Carolina PETER J. VISCLOSKY, Indiana THOMAS M. FOGLIETTA, Pennsylvania ESTEBAN EDWARD TORRES, California GEORGE (BUDDY) DARDEN, Georgia NITA M. LOWEY, New York RAY THORNTON, Arkansas JOSÉ E. SERRANO, New York ROSA L. DELAURO, Connecticut JAMES P. MORAN, Virginia DOUGLAS "PETE" PETERSON, Florida JOHN W.OLVER, Massachusetts ED PASTOR, Arizona CARRIE P. MEEK, Florida JOSEPH M. McDADE, Pennsylvania C. W. BILL YOUNG, Florida BOB LIVINGSTON, Louisiana JIM KOLBE, Arizona DEAN A. GALLO, New Jersey BARBARA F. VUCANOVICH, Nevada JIM LIGHTFOOT, Iowa RON PACKARD, California SONNY CALLAHAN, Alabama HELEN DELICH BENTLEY, Maryland JAMES T. WALSH, New York CHARLES H. TAYLOR, North Carolina ERNEST J. ISTOOK, JR., Oklahoma FREDERICK G. MOHRMAN, Clerk and Staff Director FOREIGN OPERATIONS, EXPORT FINANCING, AND RELATED PROGRAMS APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1994 MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1993. TESTIMONY OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND OTHER INTERESTED INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS CHAIRMAN'S STATEMENT Mr. OBEY. Let me simply say that today the committee is beginning its review for fiscal 1994 appropriations for foreign assistance and export assistance. This is the reverse of the usual process. Normally, we have public witnesses at the end. This year we are hearing public witnesses at the beginning because, frankly, there is no budget yet. Until the Administration gets its people downtown and until they get their budget up here, we will be precluded from acting, and so we have just started off with as many hearings as we could get out of the way before they bring down their two sets of papers. I know it makes it a little more difficult. It makes it a lot more difficult for the committee than it does for anybody else. But we are going to be on an accelerated time schedule so we have no choice but to proceed. I want to explain that we have 55 people testifying here today, and so we are going to adhere scrupulously to the five-minute timetable. So I know people come in and they have a tendency, if they read statements, to overestimate how much they can squeeze in in five minutes. I would urge you to take a look at your statements now and begin to cull, because I have some time pressures at the end of this process today. I will have to insist if you have not condensed your statement to five minutes, I will have to condense it for you, because at the end of five minutes, it is going to have to stop. I also want to start out by trying to put this package in context. I want to point out that the preliminary numbers that we have from the present request show that the Administration is essentially going to be, with the exception of the very high priority problem in the Soviet Union, proposing a hold-the-line budget. They will, obviously, have some areas where they have indicated a priority and some areas where they have indicated a lower priority and recommended such reductions. (1) |