It has increased funding for basic education programs and HIV/ AIDS funding. Nevertheless. I remain concerned that we are not doing enough in other areas. The dramatic underfunding of critical programs throughout the underlying bill calls into question the Houses commitment to refugee assistance. debt relief. democracy in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. the global environmental facility. and foreign aid in general. Let me drop a footnote there. The chair and the ranking member have done the best that they could with what they have. but it is the overall parameters and all of our responsibility here in the House that fails.