Chairman. let me first thank all of you for the attentive debate. It has been an interesting afternoon. I think it has made a good record for this whole question of refugee assistance. and I think it is pretty clear that this Chamber. and I hope it reflects the feeling of the country. does support a continuation of the magnanimity and the generosity which has characterized American policy toward those seeking refuge from persecution. and that is exactly the people we are talking about. Therefore. it is with some surprise on my part that I find two of the more generous and thoughtful Members of the House supporting a bill which is in and of itself irredeemably ungenerous and irredeemably lacking in that very magnanimity which should characterize our policy. The gentlemen have under the guise. the sheepskin of freeze. have got a wolf in a manger. That wolf. let me tell you. is to cut health and refugee programs. Understand. refugeesand I will put in the record and read a few words from the GAO report of 1983refugees enter this country with a high rate of tuberculosis. which not only ravages them. but is caught by the indigenous U.S. population. They come in with parasites. They come in with leprosy.
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Refugees enter the country with a high rate of tuberculosis, parasites, and leprosy.