This bill could help up to 7 million of these children become insured. I am certain that in so doing. it will take a great burden off the minds of many working families who dont earn enough money to be able to pay for -health insurance today or dont have a benefits package at work that provides health insurance for their families. The one thing this budget package does. which I think Is long overdue. is it provides funding to restore the unfair welfare reform provisions that would otherwise cut off SSI legal Immigrants who are playing by the rules and paying their taxes but have become disabled or may become disabled In the future. Without this budget agreement. over 22.000 elderly or disabled legal immigrants in my State of Illinois would face the loss of their SSI in October. For many of them. this is their only form of support. I supported the welfare reform bill. but I agreed with President Clinton that this was one provision that needed to be corrected.
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