Session #96 · 1979–81

Speech #960229534

Or is it for other items such I as military assistance to Israel. promotion of American exports. and foreign military sales? An examination of the budget accounts in function 150 shows c that very little of the growth between fiscal 1978 and fiscal 1981 was a result i of increases in international develop- I ment programs. So the increases are t elsewhere. t Let us look. for example. at refugee t programs. Tens of thousands of the V Cubans are landing in one State. Florida. right now. About $1 billion may be t needed already to take care of the Cuban I refugee problem that we did not contem- i plate in the Budget Committee markup a for this function and for the income security function. Before we could contemplate the Cuban problem. imbibe it and take care of it. we find that refugee programs have increased from $100 million in fiscal 1978 to more than $500 million in 1981. with a new problem again at our doorstep. We do not know yet how much will be requested for the Cubans who are fleeing Castros dictatorship. I am sure the Senator does not want to go back to fiscal 1978 levels on refugee programs. What about Public Law 480 food aid? It was $800 million in fiscal 1978. but next year the budget resolution makes room for $1.1 billion.
Keywords matched
refugee

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Humanitarian Legal / procedural Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
ERNEST HOLLINGS
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
SC
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
960229534
Paragraph
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