Mr. BERMAN. and members of the Committee on Foreign Affairs for their work on H.R. 1415. for reauthorization of programs of the State Department. I am especially pleased that In section 104 of this legislation the committee Is increasing the authorization for migration and refugee assistance to $600 million for fiscal year 1992some $109 million above the Presidents request. As you know. this is the same amount requested in legislation introduced by the chairman and ranking member of the Hunger Committee. which I have cosponsored. to increase U.S. aid for refugee assistance programs. Included in this amount is $100 million for overseas assistance for refugees in Africa In response to the large increases in refugees In Somalia. Liberia. the Sudan. Ethiopia. and Mozambique--assistance which is desperately needed at this time. In the past few weeks. the world has necessarily turned its attention to the plight of Kurdish refugees. Relief organizations have been forced to respond to the plight of Bangladesh and other areas in desperate need of humanitarian assistance. At the same time conditions in the wartorn Horn of Africa have deteriorated to the point where more than I million people are at immediate risk of starvation.
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