For this reason. I am extremely pleased that the Senate Appropriations Committee has included in H.R. 5899. the second supplemental appropriations bill. my amendment to provide $5 million in the Community Services Administration budget for the resources to assist these veterans with their problems. Last week the Senate passed legislation to provide $405 million in adjustment assistance for the refugees of the Indochina war. We took this action because it was in the American tradition and it was right. It is also right and in our tradition to provide for the hundreds of thousands of American GIs who served their Nation and came back from Vietnam with drug problems. without the skills or training necessary to obtain a job. with bad discharges which prevent them from utilizing the GI bill and with a myriad of other problems which have caused these veterans to fall back into a "cycle of poverty." OEO was created because traditional agencies failed to reach minority and lower income people with problems.
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