I am pleased to see that the Department of Health. Education. and Welfare has pledged to the committee that for the duration of the proposed legislation. that is. through the end of fiscal year 1977. HEW is prepared to pay 100 percent of the health. social service and income maintenance costs related to the refugee resettlement program. HEW proposes to reimburse State and local governments for any of these expenditures in behalf of refugees who become public charges. HEW does not include reimbursement for additional education costs. I note that the Committee received assurances from voluntary agencies which have been working together with the Department of State and HEW that such agencies will avoid settling Vietnamese and Cambodians in economically hardpressed areas. and that every effort will be made to disperse them throughout the United States. that the Committee has urged the executive branch to conduct a vigorous international campaign to obtain assistance of the world community in dealing with these Indochinese refugees. and that the committee has amended the proposed legislation to require regular. current and comprehensive reports to the Congress on the implementation of the provisions of the assistance program. Mr. Chairman. these actions are taken in difficult times. under difficult circumstances.
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