In an extremely painful series of decisions. Congress approved a fiscal 1990 foreign aid appropriation that represented extraordinarily hard choices among competing priorities. With little or no cooperation from the President or the executive branch agencies in setting priorities or in finding funds. in the fiscal 1990 foreign aid appropriation Congress shaped a major Eastern Europe aid package of over $430 million. funded a significant expansion of our international antidrug effort. provided for a continued export financing program in the ExportImport Bank over the opposition of the administration. found ways to meet our most urgent refugee assistance demands. and funded bilateral programs the administration claimed represented its top priorities. Those difficult decisions now represent finn commitments by the United States upon which our allies and friends are not basing many of their own national budgets. A substantial fraction of those fiscal 1990 funds are already obligated or committed against specific needs.