Mr. President. I am today submitting a resolution which expresses the sense of the Senate that: First. the United States increase the number of refugees. it accepts in fiscal year 1991 over the 125.000 figure set for fiscal year 1990. second. that a portion of the fiscal year 1991 increase be allocated to Soviet refugees. and third. that the United States fund the cost of all of the refugees it admits in fiscal year 1991. The United States has always been a beacon of light and hope for oppressed peoples around the world. At a time when democratic values of liberty and opportunity. long championed by the United States. are on the march. and the bonds of tyranny are being slowly loosened in various parts of the world. we must take special care to offer help to those victims of oppression who now have a window of escape. We are all pleased with some of the recent trends In Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. We do not know how long this window of escape will remain open. For fiscal year 1990. the United States will accept 50.000 refugees from the Soviet Union. of which 40.000 are supported by Federal funds. It is well known that many more than 50.000 persons are seeking to leave the Soviet Union. These include tens of thousands. if not hundreds of thousands. of religious believers.
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