Im truly encouraged by the leadership of Senator GRASSLEY and Senator HATCH working on this. Id like to bring up one more point on this of fiction versus fact. that I think this is one of the. maybe the meanest spirited part of this. And something that gets brought up. and unfortunately all too often is brought up. this idea of scapegoating or trying to mislead the way the public. it obviously is not working very well with the numbers coming out of the latest poll. but this idea that somehow a nonlegal resident of this country. an illegal immigrant would be eligible for this. I dont know how many times we need to state this. But I think that. Madam Speaker. that those of us in this body owe it to one another to be very. very clear when we state this. The fiction part says that the compromise bill would allow illegal immigrants to get SCHIP. Heres what our Republican leadership In the Senate has said. "Section 605 of our bill states the following: Nothing in this act allows Federal payment for individuals who are not legal residents." Anything to the contrary. if I would go back to the beginning. is simply misleading or. at worst. Is an absolute attempt to distort or to be dishonest about this.
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