There are 50 States in which welfare programs are under way. If the situation which prevails in connection with the relief program in Jordan were to exist in any one of our 50 States. the Federal contribution would be immediately terminated and withheld. The amendment I have proposed would not remove from the relief rolls one Palestinian refugee whose status as a refugee and whose eligibility as to need are certified. Indeed. it would open the way for a certification of approximately 200.000 children born to Palestinian refugees. who are now denied relief on the cruel and strange ground that there are vast numbers of ration cards wrongfully and fraudulently held and used. I should like to relate a personal experience while in Jordan. I was riding with a high official of the U.S.
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