Political Quotes

“Thank you, I say to the Senator. I just remind Senators that 87 Members of this Chamber voted for a welfare reform bill that passed the U.S. Senate that said all legal- sponsored immigrants receive no deeming. We eliminate deeming. Under the welfare bill we passed there is no deeming. If you are a legal immigrant in this country, sponsored, you are not eligible for welfare benefits until you become a citizen. And 87 Members of the Senate voted for that. This is a much weaker version. What this keeps in place is a deeming provision that says that you are not eligible for benefits unless your sponsor cannot pay for it. We had no provision like that. There was no fallback. You just were not eligible, period. Under the Simpson bill we are considering, at least there is a fallback that says if your sponsor can no longer help you, then we will. So this is a weaker provision under the existing Simpson language than what 87 Members of the Senate voted for previously. So understand that you are falling back already, and those who were support this amendment would be falling back even further from the changes 87 Members voted for.”