I rise in support of this most important bill. and I want to thank the staff for their splendid work. especially the chairman. the gentleman from Mississippi . and the gentleman from Wisconsin for doing an excellent job on this bill. Mr. Speaker. refugees and displaced people around the world are the most miserable. neglected people in our world. As chairman of the Select Committee on Hunger. I have visited many refugee camps and have seen the suffering of displaced people around the world. along with the gentleman from New York and three other Members of the Congress. who witnessed firsthand a few weeks ago the Kurds In both Iraq and Turkey. and the situation that they are in. the dying of exposure. malnutrition. and the tremendous problems they are dealing with. This is not a problem that is just central to Turkey and Iraq. All over the world. we are talking about 18 million people that are refugees. and another 15 million that are displaced. In the Sudan. around 10 million people are at risk of starvation. People are already dying there. and large numbers of deaths can be expected soon.
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