So I would tend to lean in the direction of a separate Friends of the Famine Com¬mission type of organization.
Ms. VOLKER: As a follow-up now on this discussion, I feel that if the Commission now has started its work with release of a specific need, as was mentioned, be it for videotapes or for oral histories locally, then you would have no problem with the Uk¬rainian community helping out financially, but a mechanism should be set up and priorities for fund-raising should take place.
Mr. MARCHISHIN: Okay. Very good.
Yes?
Mr. MAYNES: Having had some experience in political fundraising-
Mr. MARCHISHIN: Excuse me. Would you take a microphone and identify your¬self for the record?
Mr. MAYNES: Excuse me, Mr. Chairman. You’re right.
Not being a member of the Commission and the Senator’s representative, I don’t want to take too much of your time, but I was just going to suggest there might be—fin sorry, Bob Maynes from Senator DeConcini’s office-there might be some possibility for controversy to the extent you set up other individual units that are going to possib¬ly argue with how the money would be spent, when it would be spent and who controls it To the extent that you might want to set up some entity that could live beyond the mandate of the Commission, that certainly could be useful.
But I would suggest you give serious consideration that for your major purposes of fund-raising to meet major goals of additional publications or video, that you have your own bank account and your own checkbook so that you don’t get caught up in dis¬putes with other entities. I Mr. MARCHISHIN: Mr. Chairman.
Congressman MICA: You mentioned something that we had talked about prior to this meeting. The report will be done and the Commission will conclude its official business in 1988. There was some talk by some members about the possibility of ex¬tending authority.

Now, I think the Congress could very easily extend authority. I think there’s next to zero chance that the Congress will extend appropriations so that if you’re looking down the road to keep a legal commission in existence, it will have to be with outside money.

Any money that you raise, the Commission could have the effect and power and prestige of being a governmental commission with the authority that the government puts behind it, and so on, and all of the legal entities that we’re entitled to, assistance from various agencies who have helped us in locating an office, but money, I would guarantee you this and, in fact, maybe give you my own personal feeling: I would be more than pleased to go before the Congress and appropriate committees to seek con¬tinuing authority for as long as you’d like to keep it in existence. I would be mislead¬ing you if I told you I could go and seek additional money.

We’re very lucky, very lucky to have the money we have, and maybe this is the worst news I could give you. There’s probably still an outside chance that before we ever finish, some of these funds could be cut Under Gramm-Rudman, under the budget process, and so on, we really are breaking a lot of new ground here. I think we’re okay, but it’s not unthinkable to think that at the end of this year somebody goes