Mr. President. I congratulate the Senator from North Carolina on his amendment. I think it is an excellent one. I speak. perhaps. subjectively because. for some period of time. I was in charge of a voluntary agency program when we were looking after Hungarian refugees who were escaping from the ravages of the Hungarian revolution in The advantage of using these voluntary organizations is twofold: One. they charge the U.S. Government less. They have a lower standard of living and fringe benefits. and the taxpayer gets more for his dollar. I think. when they do it. Second. and. I think. even more importantly. by using the voluntary agencies. we build up a constituency for that kind of agency in the United States that we would otherwise not have. for example. the Catholic relief agencies would have a constituency that the Government would not have.
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