House Roll Call 193

99th Congress · 1985-07-09

TO AMEND THE LEACH AMENDMENT WITH AN AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE. THE LEACH AMENDMENT STRIKES THE PROVISION CONTAINED IN THIS BILL WHICH AUTHORIZES $5 MILLION IN POTENTIAL MILITARY ASSISTANCE TO BE CHANNELED IN FISCAL YEARS 1986 AND 1987 THROUGH THE GOVERNMENT OF THAILAND TO THE NON-COMMUNIST CAMBODIAN RESISTANCE FORCES. IN ITS PLACE, THE AMENDMENT SUBSTITUTES NEW LANGUAGE AUTHORIZING THE PRESIDENT TO DRAW FROM ESF AND DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE FUNDS TO PROVIDE FOOD, MEDICINE, AND OTHER HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TO THE NON-COMMUNIST CAMBODIANS. THE SOLARZ AMENDMENT PROVIDES $5 MILLION FOR EACH OF THE FISCAL YEARS 1986 AND 1987 FOR MILITARY OR ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE TO NON-COMMUNIST RESISTANCE FORCES IN CAMBODIA, WHILE PROHIBITING CERTAIN ASSISTANC TO THE KHMER ROUGE.