Madam President. I Join my colleague from South Carolina in cosponsoring this amendment to provide adjustments to several appropriations accounts in the bill. This amendment corrects a funding error in the appropriation for the Immigration and Naturalization Service. It also addresses several areas of interest in the INS budget brought to our attention by the Immigration Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee. First. the amendment provides $1.5 million for 10 new immigration judges. second. it funds the Commission on Legal Immigration Reform. Both of these items were authorized in last years immigration act and have been requested by Senators KENNEDY and SIMPSON. The amendment also fully funds the program needs associated with a new network of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration wind profiler radars in the Midwest. This pilot program is the precursor to a nationwide system of wind profilers. but would be terminated under the budget request and the House allowance.
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