Therefore. we worked with Senator DOMENICI to clarify this issue. The amendment before us would ensure that elderly recipients would be allowed to continue to receive this critical SSI assistance during the time it would take to redetermine their status. This clarification makes sure that should the proposal in the budget resolution be enacted. elderly legal immigrants will be treated with compassion and not subjected to the sudden and perhaps unwarranted loss of basic assistance. Mr. President. I want to point out that the proposal suggested by the budget resolution is an important one. but it is just one of the many that the Finance Committee may consider during the upcoming reconciliation process. As I mentioned. I believe that the budget resolution approach. as clarified by our amendment. goes a long way toward restoring fairness for vulnerable legal immigrants who were in the country and playing by the rules when the welfare law was enacted. But I must say that I am sorely disappointed that the budget resolution proposal leaves elderly legal immigrantsthose who by definition have no other source of income and are too old and frail to workout in the cold. To my view. then. the budget resolution proposal therefore addresses only part of the problem. and I intend to work with my colleagues here and in the Finance Committee toward a more comprehensive solution.
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