Mr. Chairman. let me thank the gentleman for yielding and also just thank you for your strong advocacy for human rights. global refugees on so many fronts. I am pleased to be a cosponsor of this effort. This amendment simply provides an additional $30 million to the Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Account. and it still includes. and I have to reiterate. it still includes $515 million for Colombia. and it is still $9 million more than the Presidents 2007 request for Colombia. To my colleague Mr. MICA and his comments with regard to liberals. and I do not know if you said you were tired of liberals or fed up with liberals. but let me just say to you that if helping our country respond quickly and flexibly to humanitarian disasters. if rethinking a policy and making sure that we are trying to really reduce the kidnappings and violence in Colombia. if that is what we are trying to do. then I am very proud. I am very proud to be a liberal. In recent years. ERMA was used to help droughtridden Somalis and provide refugee aid to Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In Sudan. where more than 3.4 million people are displaced. urgent needs are there for ERMA funding. The funding need is very clear.
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