I am against openended authorizations generally speaking. and I am not terribly happy about having an openended authorization bill even for the 2 year limited period proposed in this bill. but it seems to me that we have an emergency in which quick action may be called for. and the simplest way is to have this done by the committee that can do the bestthat is. by the Appropriations Committee with assistance provided by the Authorizing Committee. What we would be doing here would be to provide an openended authorization for education alone. The gentlewoman is concerned. obviously. about the possible impact in her State caused by a high concentration of refugees. I think that she tends to overlook the intense hearings we had in which we went over this subject very. very carefully with HEW. with representatives of the Interagency Task Force. and every effort is being made to spread the people around the United States and to other countries. I would like to point out that in the history we have of Vietnamese refugees. the other notable example. in France. indicates that they are easily assimilated. They are well spread around. Some 20.000 of them are there.
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Vietnamese refugees are easily assimilated.