mr. isakson: i associate myself with what he said and i will support this bill when it comes to the floor at 12:00 today. on saturday i came to the floor at 2:00 out of frustration and made a speech critical of the negotiators as we were letting the clock run and had no deal. i was critical because we had pretty much had agreement that we were going to cut, we pretty much had an agreement that we were going to establish a select committee to do the cutting, but we hadn't agreed to a balanced budget amendment. we hadn't agreed to an enforcement mechanism on the committee to make sure they do the cutting. we hadn't agreed to triggers on accountability. i come to the floor today not frustrated, but feeling somewhat rewarded because on the three solutions negotiated, to those three component parts of this particular legislation, the genie is out of the bottle and history is about to be made. number one, on the debt ceiling increase, when the trigger was finally established, it means that from now on whenever this debt ceiling increase asked for by a republican or democratic president, it will

mr. isakson: i associate myself with what he said and i will support this bill when it comes to the floor at 12:00 today. on saturday i came to the floor at 2:00 out of frustration and made a speech critical of the negotiators as we were letting the clock run and had no deal. i was critical because we had pretty much had agreement that we were going to cut, we pretty much had an agreement that we were going to establish a select committee to do the cutting, but we hadn't agreed to a balanced budget amendment. we hadn't agreed to an enforcement mechanism on the committee to make sure they do the cutting. we hadn't agreed to triggers on accountability. i come to the floor today not frustrated, but feeling somewhat rewarded because on the three solutions negotiated, to those three component parts of this particular legislation, the genie is out of the bottle and history is about to be made. number one, on the debt ceiling increase, when the trigger was finally established, it means that from now on whenever this debt ceiling increase asked for by a republican or democratic president, it will

mr. chairman. >> senator isakson, thank you very much for joining me. i'd like to thank mr. konyndyk, dr. pham, mr. schaap, for your relief, for the leadership role your organizations have taken, for the insight you've given us and the world as folks have deliberated over this humanitarian crisis. as you've helped make clear today, this is the gravest humanitarian crisis facing the world today. it was foreseeable. it was one for which preparations were made and where there is investment that has made it less severe than it otherwise might have been but it's one that can be expected to occur again because of the combination of governance, climatic, regional, economic and social factors in the horn of africa. and so it is my hope that we will be working together, the people of the united states, the nonprofit community, private citizens to heighten public concern, to strengthen international engagement, to not just respond to this immediate and very real crisis that will likely take tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of lives but to lay the groundwork for preventin

mr. chairman. >> senator isakson thank you very much for joining me. i would like to thank mr. konyndyk, dr. pham and mr. wouter schaap for your personal service, for the risk you have taken in order to develop relief and the leadership role that your positions have taken in the insight you have given us and the world as folks have delivered -- deliberated over this humanitarian crisis. as you have help a clear today this is the greatest humanitarian crisis facing the world today. it was foreseeable. it was one for which preparations were made and where there is investment that has made it less severe than it otherwise might have been. but it is one that can be expected to occur again because of the combination of governance, climactic regional economic and social factors in the horn of africa. so it is my hope that we will be working together and the people of the united states, the nonprofit community, private citizens to heightened public concern to strengthen international engagement, to not just respond to this immediate and very real crisis that will likely take tens of t