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I will just read a figure from the fine work of the Center on Budget Priorities. In the last Congress. the 104th Congress. more than 03 percent of the budget reductions In entitlement programs came from programs for lowincome people. Mr. President. in the last Congress. we cut about =50 billion in assistance for legal Immigrants and also in the major food and nutrition program in this country. the Food Stamp Program Please remember. Mr. President. that the vast majority of the bonefciarles of the Food Stamp Program are children in workingpoor families. on the average. with an income of below $6400 a year.