I am pleased to offer it on behalf of the committee as an amendment to the bill pending before us. The amendment represents a bipartisan congressional initiative to respond to the tragic situation from the famine in Cambodia. The amendment authorizes $30 million for fiscal year 1980 for assistance to alleviate the human suffering and starvation among the refugees and the other innocent victims of this terrible famine. Mr. Chairman. as I indicated. this amendment is virtually identical. except for drafting changes necessary to offer it as an amendment to the bill. to H.R. 5689. the Cambodian famine relief bill which the Committee on Foreign Affairs approved and which has a large number of cosponsors on both sides of the aisle.
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