It is the responsibility of the Congress and the administration to insuie that any funds requestedand moneys appropriatedbe thoroughly documented and justified. There is the urgent obligation also to insist on an effective screening process and placement program which will not impose an undue burden on any State or locality in our Nation. The Congress must demand that these objectives are met and if they require a slowing of the pace of the movement of persons of the refugee centers. then this must be done. Mr. President. there is one very critical facet of the refugee situation that I continue to view with great alarm and disappointment. On April 1. I urged the President of the United States to appeal to the United Nations for a cooperative international program to assist refugees and displaced persons in South Vietnam and to commit the United States to such a cooperative effort. This message was sent to the President prior to the fall of South Vietnam. I am sure that many other Members of this body expressed similar views to our Chief Executive.
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