Speech #1100134011

If it werent right there in the SCHIP bill. it is surely not right here in this tax bill. It is also not fair. We should not leave some Americans unserved when it comes to rebates. such as seniors and disabled veterans. as they did in the House of Representatives. while we are going to let illegal immigrants get rebate checks. I want to give you another quote. This is also from the same day. October 25: I dont think our constituents want us to vote for a bill that makes it easier for illegal immigrants to get taxpaid health care. That is the SCHIP bill. I think this bill does that. So if that were the case. then I would think that Member of the House would not want to make it easier for illegal immigrants to get taxpaid rebate checks. Finally. here is a quote from September 25. 1 month before that. in debate on the SCHIP program in the other body. from a Member who used to chair one of the committees of jurisdiction over there: What that means is that they want illegal residents of the United States of America to get these benefits. This is what the objection means. So for that reason alone. I would ask that we vote against this bill. "For that reason alone." he saidregardless of what else is good about the bill. including the language the Senate put in. which was meant not to give the SCHIP program money to illegal aliens. It still wasnt enough. Yet now that tax rebate bill comes over from that very same body and would let illegal immigrants get rebate checks. So I say. for that reason alone. it is a reason for this body to defy people in that body who said we should not have changed the Senate bill one iota. To my colleagues on the House side. the shoe is now on the other foot. The same principle that applied then should apply now. If you felt strongly enough to stop the SCHIP bill over your concerns about illegal immigrants receiving public benefits. then you certainly should not object to the Senate repairing a bill you sent us that would allow illegal immigrants to get a rebate check. You cared about it then. you should care about it now. You said it wasnt right then.