Sam Brownback in Our Endangered Values, by Jimmy Carter

On Foreign Policy: Cut in half the anti-malaria budget for Africa

The annual US foreign aid budget for fighting malaria, for instance, has been $90 million, but 95% of the money is being spent on consultants and less than 5% on mosquito nets, drugs, and insecticide spraying to fight the disease. Senator Sam Brownback, a conservative Kansas Republican, has complained about this policy, and has introduced a bill to force the administration to spend half of its malaria budget on treatment. Brownback pointed out that the government's list of contractors on its Web site has not been updated for 4 years. The senator said he had received only "vague descriptions and math that doesn't add up," and demanded an audit by the government accountability office.