On the recordMay 15, 1997
I think it is known how strongly I feel about the right of legal, taxpaying immigrants in this country to be treated in a nondiscriminatory way with regard to the receipt of programs, the eligibility for programs as essential as Supplemental Security Income. I am very pleased that the Committee on Rules has made in order an amendment... to restore for the duration of the fiscal year the eligibility of legal immigrants in the United States to receive Supplemental Security Income. We owe a very special debt... of gratitude to the gentlewoman from Florida [Mrs. Meek] for fighting so eloquently, so selflessly and yet so tenaciously on behalf of this very vulnerable population that this amendment addresses.
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