How do you feel Congress should move forward with our approach to foreign assistance?

On its 25th anniversary in 1971, the company was ready to continue without foreign assistance.

Increases were allowed for the military, foreign assistance and some domestic programs.

But the foreign assistance will not take all of the pressure off Russia's domestic budget.

Health officials, with considerable foreign assistance, have made some progress recently.

"I think we've made some serious mistakes," he said about foreign assistance.

One result, they say, could be a bipartisan consensus behind foreign assistance for the first time since the cold war.

There were many reasons for cutting foreign assistance during the past decade.

The history of rail transport in China began with foreign assistance.

The unemployment rate is said to be 90 percent; people survive on foreign assistance.

International and foreign aid is also likely to be important.

If Congress has its way, foreign aid will be cut still further.

Even several billion dollars in foreign aid might not be enough.

Many of them talk about using their new majority to cut foreign aid by 15 to 20 percent.

"People wouldn't be against foreign aid if their needs were met."

Thus, they believe in economic development, independent of foreign aid.

The two together would reduce foreign aid by more than 35 percent.

But foreign aid is only a small part of the solution.

"I think a lot of people here care about foreign aid," he said.

"We know nothing about any foreign aid," he said last week.

Both countries are among the poorest in the world and extremely dependent on overseas aid.

Less than 2 per cent of all overseas aid is going to improve communications.

There is also a case to be made for the Government to spend more money on overseas aid.

When do the Government expect to meet the target for overseas aid of 0.7 per cent.

Let me turn to other areas of public spending, starting with overseas aid.

But it is not just overseas aid; that money will also lead to the development of better vaccines which we can use, too.

Major development projects at the school have often been funded by overseas aid.

If money is needed the government should instead cut overseas aid, trident, war, and weapons.

It is here in the area of overseas aid that financial management reform has made a very positive and visible impact.

But tonight, the Government couldn't give any assurances about overseas aid.