Perhaps. in such allowance. we shall finally find a peace within ourselves. Mr. President. basically. what we have here is an implementation of the Cranston resolution. which was passed by an almost unanimous vote of the Senate. which stated a very noble and a very apropriate ideal as to the attitude and the sentiment of the Senate toward the refugees. I think. to look at the situation of the moment. we have to recognize that the money for the refugees will be running out by tomorrow. The Senate will not be in session until Monday. The Senate bill. which is the JavitsPell proposal to deal with the refugee problem. will be taken up for expeditious hearings before the Committee on Foreign Relations on Tuesday. But between now and then. and perhaps even following Tuesday. we shall have to have resources to care for those refugees who are already here. I have checked with the Department of Defense and I have ascertained that there are about $17 million of unobligated funds which have been appropriated by Congress under the $700 million Military Assistance Act. There is an additonal $100 to $130 million in what we refer to in budgetary nomenclature as retrievable funds. The proposal that we now have before us is merely an authorization to utilize such unexpended and available funds under the Military Assistance Act. which we have already appropriated. for the use of the refugeesand to care for the refugees until we can set up a basic program to be funded at a later date. Mr. President.
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