Therefore. there is no need to reimburse for costs that will never be expended in the first place. Let me just reflect for the record. and I will sit down. That is. under existing law the Refugee Act of 1980 provides 100percent Federal reimbursement for up to 36 months for refugees who are in the country and are here under admission through the Refugee Act. We have some 140.000 who are possibly to be admitted this year. Under the FascellStone Act of 1980. Haitian and Cuban refugees are to be treated exactly as those who come in under the 1980 act. which means that 100percent reimbursement for 36 months. So. whether these individuals who get to Florida are admitted because they pass prescreening process or because some other way they come into the country later on. not under the auspices of our bill. but however they come in there is a coverage under existing law. either the 1980 Refugee Act or the FascellStone Act to provide reimbursement. So. I would just ask my friends and colleagues in the committee. we are trying to get a bill passed. the senior Senator from Massachusetts has introduced a bill in the other body. identical. verbatim. word for word with our bill.
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