It is my hope that there will come a time in the nottoodistant future when we can be more generous with countries in need and when we can enhance and improve American representation overseas. For the moment. in the bill before us today. we have sought to establish priorities and still allow the State Department the tools it needs to conduct a balanced foreign policy. I am especially pleased because. with this bill. we are able to preserve for the United States a leadership role in resettling and giving safe haven to refugees escaping persecution or certain death in their own country. Notwithstanding funding limitations. we are still able to join others in supporting international relief operations so that refugeessuch as Cambodians and Laotians and many others throughout the worldmight have basic health care and food and shelter as they live in temporary refugee camps awaiting the opportunity to return to their own countries in more peaceful times. There are many other aspects of this bill that strengthen our humanitarian and leadership roles abroad. I commend this bill to my colleagues as it seeks. in a balanced way. to equip our State Department and other agencies to wisely and fairly conduct foreign policy.
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