Mr. Speaker. it is bad policy to legislate broad evacuation authority when the need no longer exists. Instead. we face a new set of problems which deal with the South Vietnamese refugees who fled their country and who are now coming into the United States. We need to start over. We need a new bill. one which deals with the new problems of humanitarian aid and relocation of the refugees. We do not need a bill which deals to a great extent with what is now history. When the United States faced the problems brought about by the influx of Cuban and Hungarian emigrants. the Congress acted responsibly and set up a coordinated plan to deal with those people. Today we have no plan to handle the South Vietnamese refugees. We are still unsure how many South Vietnamese may be involved. We need to begin consideration of legislation which sets up a positive mechanism to deal with our new residents. How many refugees are we talking about? Where will they go? What will they do?
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