Was raised as a mother was raised, the same kind of wife and hostess. The home, the children, the entertaining with style. That was her heritage and she did it again in the white house right after her administration, during the johnson years, the whole world erupted like volcanoes. Women who went to work and got the forces and had equal rights. We had flower children, free love, free sex. It was safe for the young and i missed all that. But the whole world changed. It became a whole new concept of women and i think that today mrs. Clinton represents the new woman. As we continue our conversation on first ladies, patricia baldrige, reporters, and others closest recent president ial wives talked about the role of the first lady and how has changed around the nation, tonight at 9 00 eastern on cspan. Friday, the House Appropriations subcommittee mark and fast a bill to fund the state department in 2014, 6 billion less than the 2013 budget, fully funding the obama request for Embassy Security, with 6. 5 billion for counter terrorism, wars, and humanitarian response. The subcommittee met for about 25 minutes. Good morning. I would like to thank the Ranking Member for her dedication to the subcommittee and leadership. She and i have a strong working relationship and we are both invested in the important work of this subcommittee. I respect her very much. I want to thank all the members of the subcommittee from this side of the aisle for their contributions to this bill. Time sensitive issues like , with the illegal wildlife trafficking. As you know, the bill before us reduces funding by billions from current levels, reflecting the very real economic and financial problems that we face here at home. Given this challenge the bill for tax the most critical priority for first, spending directly related to National Security. Meaning we are not able to Fund Everything at the levels we have in previous years, including programs that i support. The many Security Priorities in this bill, first and foremost we need to keep american diplomatic staff safe while the represent the United States abroad. The terrorist attack in benghazi tragic and we hope it never happens again. We will face and fully fund the Embassy Security request at 4. 8 billion. We recognize the instability and unpredictable environment of the middle east, who continues strong support for our key allies in the region, israel and jordan. At the same time, security challenges continue much closer to home, supporting our partners in latin america to fight Drug Trafficking. The bill also focuses on democracy promotion and International Broadcasting to help to promote American Values abroad. Lifesaving hiv aids and humanitarian assistance programs are also prioritized. The bill supports efforts to address the wildlife poaching and trafficking defense. This is a National Security issue. The illegal wildlife trade is a multibilliondollar industry that threatens the stability of african countries and support criminal and terrorist networks, both of which affect the security of the United States. Supportde funding to antipoaching enforcement with enhanced Regional Cooperation in order to meet these urgent needs. In order to do this we reduce the lower priority programs. This bill also contains important policy provisions around the world in places where the u. S. Security interests cannot predict how things turn out, so we provide the administration the ability to respond and strength in conditions so that congress can oversee these funds. Everyone is closely watching the situation in egypt and the relationship between the u. S. And egypt has never been more critical. For that reason, this bill continues funding if certain conditions are met. First and foremost we see the Egyptian Military continuing to uphold security arrangements, including the peace treaty with israel, even while they address priorities. We respect their military to military relationship and expected to continue and make it clear in our conditions that we want egypt to embrace democracy, not just democratic elections. We remain hopeful for the egyptian people as they continue to go through this transition. The we support efforts to reestablish connections between israel and the palestinian people. This bill titans conditions on aid for the Palestinian Authority in this regard aidtens conditions on for the Palestinian Authority in this regard. If they pursue actions against the International Criminal court with a unity government, as a thelt the palestinians bill does not provide funding, such as to be consistent with a of a law that prohibits it. Supporting key strategic partners, israel, fully funding the memoranda of understanding, this subcommittee understands how critical it is to support israel, whether it is the ongoing threat from iran pursuing a Nuclear Weapon or the instability that continues in the region, Israeli Security faces serious threats and support from congress has never been stronger. The subcommittee understands the risk and what is at stake for both israel and the United States. The bill supports our critical partner and ally, jordan, including the requested 660 million for Economic Security assistance, their economy is under tremendous strain, dealing with the spillover from the conflict in syria. Jordan needs our support and we included the issue of funding for the cost associated win hundreds of thousands of have welcomed into the country. With the hundreds of thousands of refugees to have welcomed into the country. Mexican security has a direct impact on our National Security. We want to work with the government to address our shared concerns and build a lasting security economic relationship that benefits both countries. We commend the government of colombia on their success against Drug Trafficking and include funds to support the great work they are doing to train Security Forces from other countries, including funding in a separate overseas Contingency Operation section. This spending allows critical programs to be funded in iraq, afghanistan, pakistan, and places where terrorism and instability threaten u. S. Interests. Spending goes down 42 in this bill as missions in frontline countries are scaled back. As u. S. Forces drawdown afghanistan, we have to be sure that our state department and u. S. Aid staff are responsible, safe, and secure. There are serious concerns about house security is being handled by the government of afghanistan. This bill withholds a portion of the funding until we get a transitional plan with more details on how were going to keep our people safe on the ground. In addition this bill focuses on oversight, accountability, and the rights of women and girls, issues that were included by the chair. The bill continues conditions for the prior year for pakistan prohibiting funds unless the government of pakistan is cooperating with the United States on counterterrorism efforts and other issues. Moving to multilateral assistance, this bill supports contributions to International Financial institutions that benefit the poorest countries and imposes conditions on Multilateral Development banks to ensure transparency and accountability, increasing accountability for the money provided to the United Nations and other international organizations. Thanks to language that started in the fiscal year 2012 it changes business and how we do it with the u. N. , putting audits and reviews online for american taxpayers to see. The bill includes language ensuring that funds do not support abortions and eliminates the u. N. Population fda fund. We have clear differences on these issues, as i have said before, we have agreed to disagree. In closing this bill makes it tough funding choices and addresses many complex problems but these of the choices we have made and have had to make in this budget environment and rapidly changing world. It is said often, i want to express my sincere gratitude for the very hard work of this staff. They were given a difficult staff and did an outstanding job. The staffs loyalty and work is recognized. I would like to thank the clerk , and from mys] personal staff i would like to think johnnie [inaudible] and joe [indiscernible]. I would like to recognize steve, they worked very hard and very well together. I will now turn to rep resentative loy for her Opening Statement. Thank you, representative ranger. Granger. As the system moves through the process i know that we are both committed to making the bill and even better bill. I want to thank the staff as staff, gregjority higgins, alice hogan, susan adams, jamie win. , also want to thank my staff [lists names], n. M. Members of the subcommittee. It has been a pleasure working with all of you on both sides of the aisle. The House Majority conference to afford the bipartisan agreement on the budget resolution has placed chairman rogers and the members of this committee in a very, very difficult situation. The Discretionary Spending in the ryan budget is a completely unrealistic starting point, which led to subcommittee allocations that created winners and losers. While the chairwoman really did the best she could, the bill that we had before us today represents a greater than 20 reduction from the fiscal year 2013 presequestration level in thell that is only 1 of federal budget. As we have noted time and again, the agencies and programs funded by this bill are essential for a National Security. Economic prosperity, and global leadership. Deep cuts will not significantly reduce our deficit or help to pay down our debt, however they can leave us vulnerable to the spread of extremist ideology, substantially weakening our standing in the world, making it more difficult to achieve our goals on the global stage. The chairo appreciate womans efforts to include some of my top priorities. We considered this bill as permeating the middle east. The ongoing brutal war in syria is threatening its neighbors. The uprising in egypt has left significant questions about the countrys stability. Violence is increasing in iraq, iran continues to quest for a Nuclear Weapon. In light of the ever increasing instability throughout the region, our assistance to israel, are critical ally, a strong democracy is more important than ever. I also support the funding provided for jordan, a country whose stability is essential in this time of great upheaval. Funding for basic education is fundamental to our success and all other development efforts. We cannot build strong, stable, healthy societies if children do not have the tools to succeed. Our robust Global Health assistance saves thousands of lives each year and is a critical tool in the battle against disease. Addition to the allocation in these accounts, a number of the cut in this draft are deeply troubling, proposing a drastic retreat from our engagement with the United Nations, world bank, and other multilateral organizations. Compromising many of our overall objectives in this bill. Partnerships with many of these organizations are vital to Diplomatic Security imperatives and our efforts are strengthened by strong, multilateral investments, such as unicef, un women, the International Fund for agricultural development, completely unfounded in this bill. For example, the un office of humanitarian Affairs Board makes the work that the u. S. And others in sure for no gaps in lifesaving services for people in extreme need. Aid, feeding the future, providing additional financing to countries who have shown a commitment to homegrown Food Security plans with Police Efforts in afghanistan helping the troops withdrawal while maintaining security and the rule of law. These organizations also leverage our investments, leading to significantly greater impact than we can achieve our own. For example, every efforts in an dollar and that we provide to the asian and African Development bank leverages 20 from other donors. Moreover, these investments support the u. S. Economy. For every dollar contributed to the u. N. Peacekeeping budget, the u. S. Economy receives approximately 1. 60 in return. This bill also includes substantial cuts to our personnel programs at the state department and u. S. Aid. While i support the funding for Embassy Security and personnel projections, one has to ask if there will be anything left to protect. Our diplomats and Development Professionals are key facets of our National Security strategy. The programs that they implement protect our interests by making the world safer and more secure. These relatively small investments, which reflect outside dividends for the nation, finally this bill once again reinstates the global gag rule and the funding on u. S. Fpa while reducing support for bilateral Family Planning efforts. Dumbfounded,ntly frankly, by the majoritys insistence on advocating policies that are proven to do the exact opposite of what we all hope to achieve, fewer unwanted pregnancies, fewer abortions, this is simply not an area where we can agree to disagree, although we do agree to disagree. In my judgment, the evidence is so clear and it is unambiguous, it is unconscionable that on theseuld insist cuts, policies, writers, knowing that they lead to 8000 more maternal deaths, 40,000 additional orphans, 1. 4 million more abortions compared to the fiscal year 2012 levels. It is my sincere hope that working with the senate we will agree to a higher allocation for this bill that will allow us to fix many of the problems in this draft. From the chairwoman and myself, we have worked together in a very positive way. I know that she is committed to doing the very best sheehan. I know that she will work with all of us together in a bipartisan way to approve this bill as the process moves forward. Thank you again for your cooperation and hard work. Lowey, youu, mrs. Are a pleasure to work with, even though we have some very hard work to do. I will now yield to mr. Rogers for his Opening Statement. Thank you for yielding. I want to congratulate both she and ms. Lloyd for a good bill, bipartisan bill. It has taken a lot of work because of the situation in the world that we face, from continued instability in the middle east, economic difficulties are around the world, there is no question that this is an extremely busy subcommittee confronted with a number of critical issues. Fiscalsame time, the situation facing our country is of the most important to our national and Economic Security. The state foreign operations funding, billions of dollars, from current levels, while meeting the most critical Security Priorities. The bill recognizes the risks faced by our diplomats, fully funds Embassy Security requests, every penny the price asked for is in this bill. It fully funds the u. S. , israel memorandum of understanding and support scheme neighbors in our severe, including colombia and mexico, to fight Drug Trafficking and violent crime. We will also include 6. 5 billion in overseas Contingency Operations on terror funding. And to counter and stability in places where terrorists threaten u. S. And regional security. Focusing on oversight and management, funds are made available after tough conditions had been met. Than 20 programs resulting in around 2 billion in savings , the chairwomans emphasis on supporting National Security, reducing spending, and implementing reform, to meet it is the right approach for addressing our international interests. Think the members of the subcommittee and the ranking have done ahairman good job of putting together a difficult bill in difficult times and difficult financial circumstances. I fully support your work. I yield back. Thank you, madam chair. I want to applaud you for the work you have done under these difficult circumstances. Is vital, having visited our facilities overseas andth the tragedies commitments being maintained, that is critical. Clearly jordan need your great guidance, you and the Ranking Member, maintaining robust assistance. You are working under tough numbers in your life, and you would prefer programs like the institute of peace, stopping fights is in the interest of america and i know that as this process moves forward, we will try to restore funding where practical. I want to thank you for the work you have done. Thank you very much. I just want to thank the staff, you know, for the work they have done. Thank you. Any other members that would like to make remarks . All right. I understand that there are no amendments today. I will recognize mr. Dan for a motion. A move that it be favorably committed. Those in favor . The motion isit, agreed to. I ask you to enter consent of this staff be allowed to make tech