Madam Speaker, maybe I could first say a few words about Albania. I was there three or four years ago. It was the first vote Albania had ever had for democracy, the first vote at all.
They had the communist side and the democratic side. They won on their first vote. Some of them felt they did not. The democrats got 40% of the vote and thought they had lost because they had never had a vote before. They did not understand that still meant they had won because they had their first opposition ever. In the following year they had another election and they won.
It is quite amazing what they are trying to do. The ones who are working earn approximately $50 a year. They showed me their food, their groceries for the week. They had brown bags and in them they had potatoes and onions. That is what they were eating that week. Mothers were taking their groceries home for their children.
They have done things like cut down all the trees for firewood because they did not have any other means of fire. They had great spirit and were so excited about having their first vote that 99.9% of the people voted in the election. It was quite amazing.
They are being sent some 300,000 to 500,000 people and will be asked to help them out. That is why I was saying that I was hoping the international countries that will be giving aid will help Albania and other countries like it where the refugees will be going, because the people already in those countries are not much better off than the refugees themselves.
It was pretty exciting at Trenton. The armed forces are working around the clock and have established great facilities. We may not now have to use them but we may need them in the future. They are prepared with 24 hours notice to take in quite a few plane loads of people at one time. Maybe even 1,000 to 2,000 people in a couple of days. They are very prepared and we should be very proud of them.