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I thank the Chair. Mr. President. by doing this. we will be going to conference in a posture of expressing sympathetic interest and support for a corresponding provision called the Fascell amendment offered in the House version of this bill by Congressman FASCELL of Florida. without wordforword adopting the Fascell amendment. and then by the time of conference we can determine whether the administration has made provision both for the status and funding and recompense of local effort for these refugees. including both the Cuban refugees and the Haitian refugees. This then is an appropriate posture for the Senate to be in in approaching the conference. The Fascell amendment. just to inform our Members of the Senate. would add $100 million for this purpose for fiscal 1981 and would have the effect of earmarking $100 million from fiscal 1981 for this purpose.