Investment is offered as the key to economic recoverythat * makes sensebut it ignores educational investmentthe key to our young peoples future. Now let us take a good. hard look at the international affairs function. The Fauntroy amendment differs in significant ways from the resolution before us. Fauntroy provides 50 percent more funding for programs assisting refugees in Africa. In one Somalian camp. refugees subsist onroughly a third of the average American dietwith no sanitary facilities. no schools. and two doctors for 70.000 refugees. Thirtypercent cuts offered by the President in the area of development assistance come from Africaa gross injustice when 21 of the worlds 31 poorest countries are in Africa. The CBC Budget restores $400 million for development assistance.
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