Speaker. section 1615 of the bill includes language that guarantees United States assistance programs in Northern Ireland will only go towards projects that do not engage in religious discrimination and which provide employment opportunities for members of the regions Catholic minority. Some of us in Congress have been fighting. as I said. for these principles for many years. It has been a bipartisan effort. We have the opportunity to codify that this evening. Chairman GLMAN. I think. deserves particular credit for his tenacity for steering this important human rights provision through this legislation and including it. Refugee protection. the refugee provisions. Mr. Speaker. of H.R. 1561 will prevent the United States tax dollars from being spent to return to Vietnam and Laos thousands of men and women who served side by side with the American forces during the Vietnam war.
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