Session #99 · 1985–87

Speech #990046663

For Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty we authorized $137 million. $5 million below the administration request. Again. we froze salaries and expenses. adding to this the funding required this year and next for modernIzation of transmitters. Without modernization the radios cannot be heard clearly. and if they cannot be heard clearly other expenses on them are unjustified. Mr. President. S. 1003 also contains several other sections that are worth mentioning. It authorizes continued funding for the Asia Foundation and for the National Endowment for Democracy. It makes improvements in international narcotics control. in our refugee program. and in the training of our diplomats. It creates a framework for an undergraduate scholarship program. It is.
Keywords matched
refugee

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
RICHARD LUGAR
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
IN
Gender
M
Date
1985-06-06
Speech ID
990046663
Paragraph
#2
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