Clinton/Gore signed it and now Bush/Cheney undoes it. Huh?
>The White House said that at least 363,000 people — legal
immigrants who
>have not become citizens — would qualify for food stamps under
the plan, to
>be included in the budget President Bush sends Congress in early
February.
>The proposal would cost the federal government $2.1 billion over
10 years,
>the administration said. In October, 18.4 million people were
receiving
>food stamps.
Capital, on the march.
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>Many of those who could benefit from the food stamp proposal are
Hispanic.
>The White House has been ardently courting Hispanic voters.
hmm.....
>In an interview today, Newt Gingrich, the House speaker in 1996,
said: "I
>strongly support the president's initiative. In a law that has
reduced
>welfare by more than 50 percent, this is one of the provisions
that went
>too far. In retrospect, it was wrong. President Bush's instincts
are
>exactly right."
>
><...> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/10/national/10BUDG.html