The sooner we untie such aid by channeling it through the multilateral lending institutions. the better it will be for poor countries that really need help. As reported by the committee. the pending bill honors our obligations to international organizations like the U.N. Development Program and UNICEF by designating the full $139 million. Also. the committee agreed to full funding for such special humanitarian efforts as the Indus River Basin project. relief of refugees in India and Pakistan. American schools and hospitals located abroad. plus reinstating the contingency fund. Taken together the two bills requested. in my opinion. a transitional step toward a reasonable. redesigned foreign aid program. tailored to the fiscal circumstances in which we presently find ourselves.
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