[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 525 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 525

 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to 
                      welfare reform legislation.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 18, 1994

 Mr. Knollenberg (for himself, Mr. Solomon, Mr. McCollum, Mr. Kim, Mr. 
  Hoekstra, Mr. Bartlett of Maryland, Ms. Molinari, Mr. Walker, Mrs. 
 Meyers of Kansas, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Sam Johnson of Texas, Mr. Upton, Mr. 
   Ballenger, Mr. Torkildsen, Mr. Everett, Mr. Stump, Mr. Klug, Mr. 
  Hobson, Mr. Fields of Texas, Mr. Dornan, Mr. Ewing, Mr. Canady, Mr. 
 Kingston, Mr. McKeon, Mr. Lewis of Kentucky, Mr. Horn, Mr. Wolf, Mr. 
Royce, Mr. Smith of Texas, and Mr. Inglis of South Carolina) submitted 
 the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Ways 
                               and Means

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to 
                      welfare reform legislation.

Whereas, since 1965, welfare spending at the Federal, State, and local levels 
        has cost United States taxpayers $5,000,000,000,000;
Whereas, despite rapid increases in welfare spending since the inception of the 
        War on Poverty, the poverty rate in the United States has not been 
        reduced significantly;
Whereas 14.7 percent of United States residents were mired in poverty in 1966, 
        versus 14.5 percent in 1992 (the last year for which figures are 
        available);
Whereas the Federal Government spends on welfare programs more than twice the 
        amount required to lift every person on welfare from poverty; and
Whereas welfare rolls have increased sharply since the enactment of the Family 
        Support Act of 1988, and less than 1 percent of recipients of aid to 
        families with dependent children work, and the costs of implementing 
        such Act have exceeded estimates by $10,000,000,000: Now, therefore, be 
        it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that 
any welfare reform legislation that passes the House of 
Representatives--
            (1) should result in net savings to the United States 
        taxpayer within 5 years;
            (2) should limit increases in aggregate spending for 
        welfare programs to the rate of inflation;
            (3) should not require any new taxes;
            (4) should not increase the Federal deficit by more than 
        the amount by which the Federal deficit would increase in the 
        absence of the legislation; and
            (5) should not require State or local governments to bear 
        any administrative costs that would not be borne by such 
        governments in the absence of the legislation.
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