[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 33 (Tuesday, March 22, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: March 22, 1994]
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                      WE NEED REAL WELFARE REFORM

  (Mr. STEARNS asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. STEARNS. Mr. Speaker, last week the administration presented its 
welfare reform package to Congress. It appears that Mr. Clinton's plan 
to end welfare as we know it will only move a fraction of all parents 
on welfare onto the work rolls over a 5-year period. Reports indicate 
that the President calls for $15 billion in new social services 
spending.
  Instead of matching his promise to move all able-bodied recipients 
from welfare to work, the Clinton administration would exempt two-
thirds of the 5 million families on welfare from any time limits or 
work requirements. Where is the reform, Mr. Speaker?
  Working class families were promised a middle-class tax cut by Bill 
Clinton. What happened? The President ended up increasing taxes.
  The President also promised the American people health care reform 
that would change things for the better. Yet his plan would end up 
costing jobs, reducing wages, and increasing taxes.
  Mr. Speaker, in each of these cases, Republicans have real reform 
plans that will produce results.

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