The gentlemans amendment. very carefully drawn. would merely reduce the possibiity for military aid to go down to about $376 million. so it would not be a significant decrease in military aid. So. first and foremost. we must cap the military aid at a realistic figure. Second. the amendment was carefully drawn so as to suggest that we want to maximize the military assistance up to $376 million. or almost about where we are now. but at the same time we will be able to bring in other funds for the massive refugee problem. So. in effect. the impact of the amendment is just to destroy the Conte amendment entirely. I would suggest to the members of the committee that we need to cap the military spending. We need to go into a period of transition in which we indicate that we are not going to continually put major funds Into Cambodia disproportionately. and that there are other funds. as the gentleman from Wisconsin suggested. that are giving direct assistance to the massive problem of refugees we have in Cambodia. There is no question that the refugee problem has been caused in part by actions of other countries. and in part by our own assistance. We must stop the current program and redirect that. not toward war. but toward peace. We can do that by rejecting the Buchanan amendment and supporting the Conte amendment.
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