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Some of his colleagues' dismay is simply jealousy of his entrepreneurship, but some is more substantive.
Though Congress did not rescind emergency Medicaid from illegal immigrants, the legislation cited "a compelling government interest to remove the incentive for illegal immigration provided by the availability of public benefits" [ 13 ] . PRWORA was among several pieces of legislation in the mid-1990s - including California's Proposition 187 in 1994 and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 [ 16 ] - that embodied substantive immigration policy changes, the specific provisions of which have been enforced in varying degrees according to government priorities.
Dionne's proposal on NBC's Meet the Press that the surplus could engender a "substantive" political debate about "what we want government to do" was truncheoned by fellow panelist Robert Novak.
Rather than join Krugman in the gutter, I will deal with his few substantive points.
You can make a case that the appointments mess is more aesthetic than substantive.