Mr. President. the foreign relations authorization bill now before the Senate serves to bring together legislation to authorize appropriations for the Department of State. U.S. Information Agency. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. and Peace Corps. For these four agencies the committee recommends a total authorization of appropriation amounting to $916.971.000. consisting of the following: Sixty hundred fortyeight million dollars for the Department of State. including $85 million to recover resettlement costs for refugees from the Soviet Union. One hundred fiftyfive million dollars for the U.S. Information Agency. Thirtytwo million dollars over the next 2 years for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. of which almost $10 million will be used in fiscal 1973 for seismic research under the agencys direction.
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