Mr. President. in my Introductory statement for S. 1639. which I cosponsored with my distinguished colleague the senior Senator from New York. I outlined the compelling reasons. why I believed helping the Indoehinese refugees. as provided in S. 1639v. was the right thing to do and expressed my confidence that this great country of ours is capable of meeting its humanitarian obligations. at the. same time that it. gives priority attention to our pressing. economic and social problems. The Foreign Relations Committee carefully considered S. 1639r. and incorporated a great deal of it into S. 1661. which we are now considering. I attach especially great importance to the provision in S. 1639. now included in S. 1661. calling upon the President "to make every effort to retrieve all amounts previously authorized and appropriated for assistance to South Vietnam and Cambodia but not expended before the date of enactment of this act" for use as part of the $405.000.000 authorized by S. 1661.
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