Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice outlines for the Senate Appropriations Committee, the President’s request for fiscal year 2006 supplemental appropriations.
Rice names the Iraq and Afghanistan reconstruction, humanitarian relief in Durfur and Southern Sudan, aid for natural disaster relief in Africa and Pakistan, and "democratic promotion activities" in Iran as the focus of this supplemental budget. (0:28)
March 9, 2006
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