although congressman rohrabacher and i -- >> on the congressman rohrabacher take his time. i wanted general bolden, you know, the whole identified mission the president has sent out to go to an asteroid seems seems rather lackluster. others had questions about whether or not to vehicle or react to the about the trade-off instead. >> the gentleman from texas, chairman emeritus is recognized for his questions. >> of course they thank you as we all do for holding this important hearing and i thank the witnesses for their valuable testimony. i had the privilege of serving on this committee sent 3 testimony. i had the privilege of serving on this committee sent 1981 in this topic has been the subject to periodic review of legislative direction as the witnesses noticed in the 90s during consideration of a bill, this matter came up and was really a discussion about asteroids, had a hearing on asteroid is mr. rohrabacher remembers and was reported at that time one had just passed the earth that no one knew anything about, but missed us by 15 minutes. i hate to ask, was that as good

rohrabacher who is the ranking member on europe, eurasia and emerging threats. >> thank you very much mr. chairman. and i'd like to thank you personally as well as thank chairwoman ros-lehtinen for the strong leadership that both of you have provided on this issue of korea. i remember many years ago when i first was elected and became a member of this committee, there was a debate as to what policies we should have come and the six-party talks and how much, and whether we're going to give north korea aid or not. can someone fill me in, we see here that south korea has given north korea $10 billion in aid over the years, the data states has provided food and oil -- the united states has provided food and oil. how much we provided north korea in that type of assistance? anyone on the panel have a number? >> i could just put out, on the food, i think the u.s. is the greatest donor nation on humanitarian food aid for extended period of time for north korea. and on the fuel, heavy fuel oil pursuant to the agreed framewo framework, we provided significant amounts of heavy fuel oil -- >> i k

rohrabacher who is the ranking member on eurasia and emerging threats. >> i would like to thank you personally as well as the chairwoman for the strong leadership that both of you have provided on this issue. i remember many years ago when i first became a member of this committee there was the debate what policies we should have and the six-party talks and whether we are going to give north korea a and or not. we see here that south korea has given $10 billion in a over the years. the united states has provided food and oil and fuel how much have we provided north korea in that type of assistance? anyone on the panel have a number on that? >> i think the u.s. is the greatest donor nation on the humanitarian food and extend period and the development corporation we have significant amounts. >> both of them are significant. what are we talking about billions of dollars of food and oil? >> we are close to that. >> according to the congressional research, a little over a billion. >> an issue of an oil. so we have provided over a billion dollars of food and oil over these last few years. let me ju

here's more on the issue with california congressman dana rohrabacher. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i'd like to thank you personally as well as thank chairwoman ileana ros-lehtinen for the strong leadership that both of you have provided on this issue of korea. i remember many years ago when i was first elected and became a member of this committee, there was the debate as to whether or not -- what policies we should have and the six-party talks and how much -- and whether we were going to give north korea aid or not. can someone fill me in, we see here that south korea has given north korea $10 billion in aid. over the years the united states has provided food and oil and fuel for north korea. how much have we provided north korea in that type of assistance? do we have -- anyone on the panel have a number on that? >> i can put up on the food, i think the u.s. was the greatest donor nation on humanitarian food aid for an extended period of time to north korea and on the heavy fuel oil, pursuant to the aagreed framework, with the energy development corporation, we provided

this is not an issue for the althoughtes, congressman rohrabacher and i -- >> i will let him take hislking about china. i am sure we could have a hearing on it. i will want to general bolden -- the whole identified mission the president has set out, it seems rather lackluster. i have always had questions about whether that should be a goal or should we think about the trade-off. isthe gentleman from texas recognized for his questions. thank you, as we all do, for holding this very important hearing and i thank the witnesses for their valuable testimony. i had the privilege of serving .n this committee since 1981 this topic has been the subject of periodic review and legislative directive. in the 1990s, during consideration of a bill, this matter came up and it was really a discussion about asteroids. there was a hearing on asteroids. was reported one had just passed to the earth that no one knew anything about. it missed us by 15 minutes. i hated to ask, was that as good as missing us by one minute or what? just the enormity of damage it could do to us. to set an amendment goal of fin