[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 13 (Thursday, February 10, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: February 10, 1994]
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                   THE REPUBLICAN WELFARE REFORM PLAN

  (Mr. WALKER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. WALKER. Mr. Speaker, the Republican Party has on the table a 
welfare reform plan. The Democrats, after 40 years of controlling the 
Congress, do not even have plans to develop a welfare reform plan. Only 
the Republicans have put forward a real welfare reform plan, and we 
intend to do something about it by moving it through the legislative 
process.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Shaw] to tell 
us what the plans are to try go get a vote on welfare reform before the 
end of this session.
  Mr. SHAW. Mr. Speaker, we have now, on the Republican side, had a 
bill that has been out there for about 4 years. The President has 
endorsed it. He has made it part of his platform. We intend to 
introduce it.
  With the passage of all of this time, we are frustrated to the point 
that we are going to be putting in process a discharge petition that 
will force the House under an open rule to bring forth this bill and 
any other proposals that may be out there. We will be doing this after 
the recess.
  The Congress now has plenty of time to play plenty of attention to 
this process. We have a Subcommittee on Human Resources that has not 
really started the debate.
  We need to start the debate, and we are going to bring the debate 
directly here to the floor unless there is movement within the next few 
weeks.
  Mr. WALKER. Mr. Speaker, I congratulate the gentleman who has been a 
leader in welfare reform and hope that we can move the subject.

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