Mr. Speaker. I want to bring to the attention of this House an important dispute between Congress and OMB over funds directed to counties heavily impacted by refugees. OMB has refused to release $11.5 of a total of $89 million Congress appropriated for refugee targeted assistance in fiscal 1985. This action was in direct violation of a binding decision of the Comptroller General which ordered the release of the full $89 million. As a result. the Comptroller notified the Congress of an illegal impoundment of funds in the nature of a recission. only the second such notice during the entire Reagan administration.
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