Mr. Speaker. years of civil strife and unrelenting drought have left approximately 1.5 million people in the east African country of Somalia in an increasingly tenuous balance between life and death. Streaming into makeshift refugee camps pitifully stocked with the most minimal amount of food rations and medical supplies. these destitute but brave Somali refugees face starvation and crippling illness aggravated by severe malnutrition unless international relief efforts receive new infusions of funding. Earlier this month. I joined with the gentleman from Connecticut and several other of my colleagues in introducing legislation. House Concurrent Resolution 68. expressing the sense of Congress that the United States should provide immediate humanitarian assistance to Somalia in order to help that nation cope with the hunger problem there.
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