Mr. Chairman. I rise in opposition to the amendment offered by my friend and colleague from Massachusetts. Mr. MCGOVERN. While he means well. and I too strongly support greater funding for the Emergency Refugee and Migration Account. their offset is problematic. There has been a dramatic change in Colombia since President Clinton introduced Plan Colombia with his former colleague. and now Colombian Ambassador to the United States. Andreas Pastrana. And this change can be summed up into one phrase: Safety. Security. and Confidence are back. Colombia is the oldest democracy in South America. and its strongest. In 1990. during some of the darkest hours of this democracy. when their leading Presidential candidate was assassinated on television. and the country was afflicted by almost daily bombing campaigns by the FARC and the drug lords. like Pablo Escobar. their democracy continued to function and they conducted fair and free elections and the country continued to move on.