Session #104 · 1995–97

Speech #1040114601

The first of those. the Secretary indicated. will cost a minimum of $143 million in 1996. The second of those in southern Iraq will cost a minimum of $504 million in the next fiscal year. So. in addition to Iraq. we have ongoing refugee support at Guantanamo. We are all aware of the fact that the military is having to expend funds to deal with the refugee problem in Guantanamo. The figure the Secretary gave usagain. this is a minimum figure as he presented it to usis that the Department of Defense will have to expend $178 million. minimum. in the next fiscal year to carry through as they were directed by the President. In Bosnia. if we do nothing more than we are presently doingand there has been criticism on the Senate floor that we are doing too littleif we do nothing more than we are presently doing. that is. offering humanitarian support and the "deny flight" activity there. the estimate the Secretary gave us Is that we will spend a minimum of $363 million next year.
Keywords matched
refugee

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Humanitarian Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
JEFF BINGAMAN
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
NM
Gender
M
Date
1995-08-10
Speech ID
1040114601
Paragraph
#0
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