The foreign aid bill is to go before the full Senate.
David Rockefeller knew what he was doing when his foreign aid bill became law in 1946.
A new foreign aid bill now moving in Congress may lift the ban.
Further cuts and restrictions were included in a recently passed foreign aid bill.
The move came as an amendment to the $14.3 billion foreign aid bill, which was later approved, 76 to 15.
"He didn't even have enough money to import food, and we felt Congress would not be sympathetic to any large foreign aid bill."
The foreign aid bill, approved 91 to 9, would cut overseas assistance by 10 percent.
Congress has yet to complete action on a foreign aid bill for the new fiscal year.
He said this was the largest increase for any country in the foreign aid bill.
The overall foreign aid bill was defeated by a vote of 244 to 171.