The provision adding food stamps was little more than a tribute for allowing this bill to move forward. We can pass this bill without the food stamp provisions. but I am suggesting that we deal with one narrow part of the bill. I urge my colleagues to support this provision. because in this provision we dont take any benefits away from the restoration contained in the bill for immigrants who were here when we passed the welfare bill in 1996. Certain legal immigrants who were here when the welfare bill passed will have benefits restored by this provision. This motion. if defeated. would send the signal that we want to create new benefits in the future that would allow you to come to America and can obtain food stamps. That. I think. is the wrong signal. It is not a signal I want to send. It is a signal that I think is destructive for those of us who believe in legal immigration. So I urge my colleagues to support this motion to recommit with instructions. I remind my colleagues that the conference has not been discharged.
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