and i will be discussing this in greater details at the usaid town hall. [ applause ] it's also nice to be able to refer our own inquiries that still people think we spend, you know, 20% of the u.s. gest's budget on development to tell them to go to the foreignassistance.gov and get a little evidence-based reality going here. third, because we recognize that it's more important than ever to address the problems of fragile states, we are strengthening our capacity to prevent and respond to crisis. we rolled out our new conflict and stabilization operations bureau, and in the past year, cso has deployed more than 175 civilian response core members to hot spots in more than 30 countries around the world. they come from nine different agencies and bureaus, including usaid, which has expanded its own work in this area. they're working everywhere from afghanistan to south sudan to team more, often in some of the most remote and least governed places on earth. they can be found camped alongside special forces, sleeping under mosquito nets and campsites hacked out of the jungle by machete, ea

and i will be discussing this in greater details at the usaid town hall. prison. [applause] it's also nice to be able to refer our own inquiries that people think we spend, you know, 20% of the u.s. government's budget on development to tell them to go to the foreign assistance.gov and actually get a little evidence-based reality going here. third -- [laughter] because we recognize that it's more important than ever to address the problems of fragile states, we are strengthening our capacity to prevent and respond to crisis. we rolled out our new conflict and stabilization operations bureau, and in the past year cso has deployed more than 175 civilian response corps members to hot spots in more than 30 countries around the world. they come from nine different agencies and bureaus including usaid which has expanded its own work in this area. they're working everywhere from afghanistan to south sudan, often in some of the most remote and least governed places on earth. they can be found camped alongside special forces, sleeping under mosquito nets in camp sites hacke

the reports i've seen far more than usaid. also to give foreign aid to china. i would invite anyone at usaid to come to a town hall and stand in front of american taxpayers and say giving foreign aid to china is a good idea. um, there is a tremendous disconnect between a foreign policy establishment that runs our foreign policy and the american people who pay for it. um, i will be circulating a letter addressed to the administrator of usaid, dr. shaw or mr. shaw, urging that he not provide foreign aid to china. now, i should point out that in this very room we had to discuss the idea of providing foreign aid to libya. this was money to be given to entities under the control of gadhafi's kids. this was about four years ago. there is, there's just a disconnect between those who are in the executive branch who make our executive branch decisions on foreign aid and common sense. and i realize that usaid deals with a lot larger amounts than 3.95 million, but this is an example of what congress needs to stop. i thank the chairman for holding these hearings, and i do not -- i hope that the witness is treated well by the