In 2012, about 8% of the $148 million legal aid bill was spent on Treaty claims.
"I hope we can do the urban aid bill," he said today.
The foreign aid bill is to go before the full Senate.
David Rockefeller knew what he was doing when his foreign aid bill became law in 1946.
A new foreign aid bill now moving in Congress may lift the ban.
The aid bill is the last piece of legislation needed to complete the budget.
The move came as an amendment to the $14.3 billion foreign aid bill, which was later approved, 76 to 15.
Congress has yet to complete action on a foreign aid bill for the new fiscal year.
He said this was the largest increase for any country in the foreign aid bill.
The overall foreign aid bill was defeated by a vote of 244 to 171.
