[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 43 (Tuesday, April 19, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: April 19, 1994]
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    LET US WORK AS HARD FOR WELFARE REFORM AS FOR HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. SARPALIUS asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SARPALIUS. Mr. Speaker, I would like to share with you a letter 
that I received from one of my constituents within my district from the 
city of Denton where she wrote about her career as working for an 
advertising company, was prospering very well, and her dreams were 
coming true. Her son was born with a genetic disease, and she had to 
get on welfare to qualify for assistance for her son who had to undergo 
33 different surgeries.
  In her letter she describes his intestines as scrambled eggs. She 
talks about in her letter where now next year her son will turn 18 and 
he will be able to qualify for those same Federal programs, so then she 
can go back to work.
  My friends and colleagues, that is why health care and welfare must 
be addressed. There is something wrong with the system, and I commend 
the President for putting it on the table.
  I challenge my colleagues to work just as hard for welfare reform as 
we do for health care reform.

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