In addition, the Agency for International Development and the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency were returned to independent status instead of being merged into the State Department. The vote is the final foreign policy vote for the Congressional session, and represents the new U.S. approach to foreign relations.
Negotiation is, after all, the cornerstone of good business.
But nothing could really satisfy me except a full restoration of all cut funds. Also, it would have severed U.S. ties with the UN, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank. Most important to Sen. Window, though, was his call to pull out of all current free trade agreements. I guess I can comfort myself that Fox didn't succeed in giving all the savings back, but that's pretty cold comfort. However, since nearly all the restorations he wanted were also included in the Fox bill, he proclaimed himself reasonably satisfied with the result.