Session #109 · 2005–07

Speech #1090142982

Mr. Chairman. I yield myself 4 minutes. Mr. Chairman. this is a very straightforward amendment. It increases funding by $30 million for the U.S. Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund. and it decreases the Andean Counter Drug Initiative by the same amount. The reduction in the ACI account should come from eradication and military related aid above the Presidents request level. It is my understanding from figures provided by the Foreign Operations Subcommittee that. under the ACI. the President requested $506.2 million for Colombia. the committee provided $545.2 million for all these categories of aid. So even after this amount is reduced by $30 million. aid for Colombia requested by the President would still total $515.2 million. or $9 million above the Presidents fiscal year 2007 request.
Keywords matched
Refugee

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Humanitarian Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
JAMES MCGOVERN
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
MA
Gender
M
Date
2006-06-08
Speech ID
1090142982
Paragraph
#0
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