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 PUBLIC LAW 97-276—OCT. 2, 1982

96 STAT. 1203

SEC. 154. (a) Subpart J of part I of schedule 5 of the TariflF 19 u Schedules of the United States (19 U.S.C. 1202) is amended by note.s e 1202 inserting after item 522.51 the following new item: 522.53

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(b) The amendment made by this section shall apply with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after the date which is fifteen days after the date of enactment of this joint resolution. SEC. 155. For the purposes of the Immigration and Nationality Act, Tessie and Enrique Marfori shall be held and considered to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence as of the date of the enactment of this joint resolution, upon payment of the required visa fee. Upon the granting of permanent residence to such aliens as provided for in this joint resolution, the Secretary of State shall instruct the proper officer to reduce by the required number, during the current fiscal year or the fiscal year next following, the total number of immigrant visas and conditional entries which are made available to natives of the country of the alien's birth under section 203(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act or, if applicable, from the total number of such visas and entries which are made available to such natives under section 202(e) of such Act. SEC. 156. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint resolution, there is appropriated $518,000,000, to remain available until expended, for Dep8u*tment of Transportation Interstate Transfer grants—Highways, and $365,000,000, to remain available until expended, for Department of Transportation Interstate Transfer grants—Transit: Provided, That allocations of these funds shall be distributed in accordance with House Report 97-783 or Senate Report 97-567, whichever is higher. SEC. 157-158. Since the United States Congress established the Social Security system in 1935 to provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of Federal old-age benefits; and Since Medicare was made part of the Social Security system by Act of Congress in 1965 to provide for the general welfare through a system of health benefits for the aged; and Since medicare is an insurance program in which working Americans contribute their Social Security payroll taxes and in which the elderly and disabled pay health insurance premiums in order to receive health benefits promised under this insurance plan; and Since proposals to limit eligibility for Medicare health beneffts to lower-income persons would profoundly alter the character of health insurance for the aged and disabled by removing the insurance principle from the Medicare program. It is the sense of the Senate that the Congress should reject any proposal to impose a ''means test" on eligibility for the Medicare program or benefits provided by the Medicare program. SEC. 159. Any amount remaining on September 30, 1982, from the contract authority and budget authority made available for use as provided in the third proviso under the heading, "Annual Contributions for Assisted Housing (Rescission)", in the Urgent Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1982 (Public Law 97-216), shall remain available for obligation in accordance with the terms of such proviso, except that the Agreement to Enter into a Housing Assistance Payments Contract shall not be required to include a provision requiring that construction must be in prepress prior to January 1,

Alien admittance. 8 USC 1101 note.

8 USC 1153. 8 USC 1152.

Medicare.

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