Sudan. and Somalia appear to be suffering equally grave humanitarian tragedies. and United States policy will undoubtedly continue to seek resources to meet their needs. It is to ensure that the present initiative does not detract from our ability to respond elsewhere that H.R. 2122 includes certain elements not directly related to needs of Iraqis. Section 2(a) of our bill would allow use of the funds authorized to be appropriated under it to reimburse migration and refugee and international disaster assistance money that has already been used for gulfrelated needs. This would ensure that the capacity of these accounts to address needs elsewhere would be restored. Section 2(b) of our bill would temporarily lift the ceiling on funds which may be held in the emergency migration and refugee fund (ERMA] at any one time from $50 million to $75 million. Our bill would also leave ERMA free to respond to other needs by providing sufficient authorizations to meet Iraqi needs through the migration and refugee assistance and international disaster assistance accounts. Although ERMA is a permanently authorized fund. and we do not authorize appropriations for it. we trust that the Appropriations Committee will approve a level up to the new ceiling for that account. The administrations request for supplemental appropriations. dated April 25. is for a total amount of $150 million.