The conference agreed to increase the initial administrative fee charged Israel under the Housing Investment Guaranty Program. This is equitable. and I supported increasing the fee. I am also pleased that this supplemental will provide an additional $75 million to the Refugee Program at the Department of State. Senator KASTEN and I wrote the President early this year about the urgency of providing additional funds to the Refugee Program because it was clear the administrations request in the fiscal 1990 foreign operations appropriation was far too low to meet refugee needs this year. This supplemental is coming just in time to prevent exhaustion of funds in the Refugee Program. Mr. President. one of the themes I pressed hard when this supplemental first came forward from the President was the need to strengthen U.S. economic competitiveness abroad. especially in Eastern Europe.
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