The Committee on Foreign Relations met on last Thursday to mark up S. 457. an administration bill providing supplemental authorization of appropriations of $25 million in disaster assistance for Africa. Not one syllable was uttered during that markup in defense of the administrations $25 million request. Instead. the committee moved immediately to consider a bipartisan compromise figure of $175 million-$137.5 million in disaster assistance and $37.5 million in refugee assistance. The bipartisan compromise. which had unanimously passed the House Foreign Affairs Committee was approved on a 130 vote. with one member voting present. It is our understanding that these sums have been incorporated into the appropriations supplemental that has been approved by the House Appropriations Committee in H.R. 1239. and which will be considered by the Senate later this week or next.