[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 13 (Thursday, February 10, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: February 10, 1994]
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                TIME FOR A COMMITMENT TO WELFARE REFORM

  (Mr. SANTORUM asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SANTORUM. Mr. Speaker, candidate Clinton is President Clinton, in 
large respect because he showed he was a new Democrat throughout the 
campaign of 1992, because of one issue: the welfare issue. He was a new 
Democrat because he wanted to reform the broken-down Government system 
that is trapping the poor in this country with despair.
  President Clinton has an opportunity now to work with us to get a 
welfare bill done. He is like the suitor, the suitor to the welfare 
issue who gives us flowers, who says nice things, who stands up at the 
State of the Union Address and presents us with nice gifts, but has yet 
to deliver the ring.
  It is time for commitment. It is time to move forward, and we have an 
opportunity with the Republican bill, which has gotten broad support 
across both sides of the spectrum, to move some reform to help these 
people. They deserve better. They deserve an opportunity to go to work, 
to learn, and to be able to get into the mainstream of America.
  Mr. President, it is time to move, and the Republican plan is a place 
to start.

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