Chairman. this gentleman from Wisconsin does recognize the point that the gentleman from New York has been raising. What I do not think the gentleman from New York and others who have been talking during the Florida hour. the California hour. and now the New York hour. realizes that the formula that discriminated against your States is amended in this bill. Under present law children are excluded from the allocation of usual and normal refugee funds. This bill amends the law to include children in the count for refugees. Now the old law. before this bill. discriminated against those States that had large concentrations of children. Those were the States that benefited from targeted assistance. Now we are changing that inequity in this bill. and these people who are coming here defending the Targeted Assistance Program are asking for a double dip. They are asking for a change in the formula to give their States more normal refugee funds and they are asking for targeted assistance over and above that. Now when you have a $200billion Federal budget deficit. a single dip ought to be enough.
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