A September 24, 1996 immigration bill contained a provision that legal immigrants could obtain government-funded treatment for all communicable diseases except HIV. The House Democrats tried unsuccessfully to delete the provision and President Clinton threatened to veto the bill. Following negotiations the immigration provisions were deleted. A list of members of the House of Representatives who voted in favor of an amendment that would have deleted language barring legal immigrants from receiving Federally-funded treatment for HIV disease indicates that the amendment failed 179 to 247.

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