Speech #920089711

I wonder if the gentleman realizes how much we are being asked to spend on foreign aid this year and how much in past years. We are talking here about a very narrow category of foreign aid expenditures. I have a list here of 25 different requests for foreign aid assistance which are before us for the 1972 fiscal year: New requests for authorization and/or appropriation for foreign aid and assistance (July 1. 1971) fiscal year 1972 Foreign Assistance Act (including " Military Assistance) ----------------$3.313.000.000 Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) ------ 25.000.000 InterAmerican Development Bank ------------------ 500. 000.000 InterAmerican Development Bank (supplemental) ----- 486. 760.000 International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (supplemental) ----- 246. 100.000 International Development Association --------------320.000. 000 Asian Development Bank ---- 40.000.000 Asian Development Bank (supplemental) ---------- 60.000.000 Expanded Multilateral Assistance ----------------- 35. 000. 000 Receipts and Recoveries from Previous Programs -------- 370. 310. 000 Military Assistance (in Defense Budget) ----------2.250.800.000 International Military Headquarters ---------------- 74.400. 000 Economic Assistance (in Defense Budget) ------------ 90.900.000 MAAGs. missions and military groups --------------262. 600. 000 Permanent military constructionforeign nations. 106. 000. 000 ExportImport Bank. longterm credits ------------ 2.445.000. 000 ExportImport Bank. regular operations ----------- 1. 195. 639. 000 Peace Corps ---------------- 82.200.000 Ryukyu Islands ------------ 4. 450. 000 Migrants and refugees ------ 8.650. 000 Publio Law 480 (agricultural commodities) ------- 1.320. 400. 000 Contributions to international organizations ------ 160. 680.000 Education (foreign and other students)---------------- 51.000. 000 Trust Territories of the Pacific -------------------- 59.739. 000 Latin America Highway (Darien Gap) ------------ 20. 000. 000 Total new requestsforeign aid and assistancefiscal year 1972 ------------13.528.628.000 These requests add up to $13.528.628.000. Too much of this is military assistancewhich I oppose. I wish we could get rid of our military assistance program.