Mr. President. I am disappointed to learn that the funding for the Cuban Refugee Airlift has been deleted from the continuing appropriations for fiscal 1972. House Joint Resolution 742. The airlift provides transportation to Cubans who wish to leave Cuba and live in the United States. The measure will be voted on Tuesday morning. I urge other Senators to join Senators CHILEs and GURNEY and myself in seeking to have the $1.050.000 item restored to the appropriations bill. The Cuban Refugee Airlift. begun in 1961. has been one of the most successful humanitarian ventures ever undertaken by this Nation. We should continue it. When I was Secretary of Health. Education. and Welfare. President Kennedy had me go to Miami to institute and coordinate Federal efforts in setting up a program to assist Cuban refugees. In 1965. President Johnson expanded this program to include the Cuban Refugee Airlift. Both the President and his Attorney General. Robert Kennedy. felt a deep commitment to help Cubans who wished to leave their homeland and take up residence here.
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