The Senate Finance Committee proposal would only save an estimated $39 million in fiscal year 1980 and $26 million in fiscal year 1981. Mr. President. I urge my colleagues to reject this permanent public assistance benefit ceiling phasein proposal and accept instead the full and expeditious funding of this most important increase to our territorial possessions. I wish to remind my colleagues. Mr. President. we are here dealing with American citizens. We have just approved the expenditure of $300.000.000 to care for nonAmerican political refugees. Why can we not spend $39.000.000 in 1980 and $26.000.000 in 1981. to save our own countrymen. citizens of the United States. from abject poverty and suffering? Mr.
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