It is these considerations. Mr. President. which should dominate. and while we wish to draft intelligent legislation. carefully designed to carry out our good purposes and good intentions with the least prejudice or harm to any American. or any American family. the weight of our feeling should be on the side of doing something which is apposite to the critical situation in which these refugees have found themselves. Mr. President. the bill is draf ted exactly for that purpose and it is very important that the Senate understand how carefully we worked with the bill. In the first place. to understand the bill completely. it is necessary also to refer to the provisions of the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 as that is the framework within which this rather brief bill is set. so that individual definitions. et cetera. are not repeated in this bill except by reference to the fundamental law. That is a critically important aspect of understanding what is here written. Second. that the committee was determined that any money that could be retrievedwhether in or out of the pipeline from military or nonmilitary appropriations to the struggle in Vietnam. or its liquidationshould be retrieved and should be deposited in the Treasury so that the retrieval will be at the maximum.
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