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we can all agree not on how or what we do -- we can all agree on the increasingly desperate
plight of the Syrian people and the responsibility of the international community to address
that plight. Just this week the international community
came together to raise -- to pledge $1.5 billion in pledges for humanitarian support for the
Syrian people and refugees fleeing the violence. As part of that effort, President Obama announced
that we would be contributing $155 million, bringing the total of humanitarian aid for
Syria to $365 million -- the largest contribution of any nation’s humanitarian assistance
to the Syrian people.