What we have done in this bill. Madam President. mirrors the changes made in last years balanced budget agreement. That bill eliminated eligibility for several classes of legal immigrants for food stamps. Refugees. asylees. elderly and disabled legal immigrants and their children. Hmong refugees and certain native Americans who were unfairly denied food stamp benefits will once again be eligible for this important food assistance under this bill before us. I might also add. parenthetically. that it is not just compassion. but it is dollar wise. We know in the past when these people are cut off from the needed food stamps. the elderly and the disabled. their kids are cut off. and when they lack nutrition. where do they end up?
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