Speaker. I rise today in strong opposition to this rule. The bipartisan effort achieved in the agricultural research conference report to restore food stamp benefits to 250 thousand legal immigrants is to be applauded. These legal immigrants are the elderly and disabled immigrants who were legally in the United States and were eligible to receive food stamps before the Welfare Reform Act of 1996. as well as the children under age 18 who were in the United States at this same time. I would like to remind my colleagues that this restoration of food stamp benefits was fully offset by lowering the cap on the amount of money the Federal Government will reimburse the States for food stamp administrative costs. It is distressing that these provisions were overwhelmingly supported by the other body and that a HouseSenate conference committee approved these provisions unanimously and yet this rule singles out food stamps and promises to eradicate this bipartisan compromise.
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