Speech #1010075070

There will be more applicants at the local level and therefore the costs to the local governments will increase. and their need for this money will be greater than the requests. or the claims that have been made thus far. They will continue to increase over that period of 7 years. So what the Senators from Florida are saying is that we should rectify what perhaps was unintended but no less a wrong. that is. that this money needed and deserved by local government to meet the increased costs imposed upon them by a Federal responsibility which we met through the Immigration Reform and Control Act should be honored. not breached. So I will simply conclude. I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the RECORD a letter which recently was sent to the President of the United States bearing the signatures of both the Senators from Florida and several other States. As has been indicated. some 25 States are affected urging that even for a proposition as worthy as the administration drug proposal other funding be found rather than breaching the agreement which. in fact. is the proper way to characterize it. It was made by the Immigration Reform and Control Act.