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I simply do not like the rationale which says that they will not use it for the purposes that they justified it. but they will probably need it for something else so we should give them the same amount of money. Certainly. if it happened in any other subcommittee that they came in and justified a number of million dollars for airbases in Spain and then the day before we got ready to present it to the House of Representatives. as our recommendation. if they came in and said. "Oh. no. we cannot use it for airbases in Spain. but we think we are going to have to build some barracks in Ethiopia." I think you would be highly critical of such a subcommittee. if we brought in a recommendation for the same amount of money and asked you to follow our recommendations to use that same amount of money which was justified for airbases in Spain for some nebulous program of building barracks in Ethiopia. I think it is just too much of a coincidence that they are going to need the same amount of moneyexactly the same number of dollars for a program for refugees or whatever else it might be for in this part of the world as they told us they were going to need for a military assistance program. I think it is the responsibility of the Committee on Appropriations and it is the responsibility of the House of Representatives to consider a revised program. when such a revised program has been made up and has been presented to the Committee on Appropriations. This amendment does not affect the authorization.