[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 74 (Tuesday, June 14, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: June 14, 1994]
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                      THE PRESIDENT'S WELFARE PLAN

  (Ms. DUNN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DUNN. Madam Speaker, today the President will unveil his welfare 
reform plan. If it is anything like his health care plan, we can all 
expect to be on welfare by the end of the century. I urge my colleagues 
and the American people to look closely at the President's welfare plan 
with some of these questions in mind.
  Will it save the taxpayers money? Will it end the cycle of 
dependency? Will it stop giving handouts and begin giving a hand up? 
Will it solve the problem of teen-age illegitimacy? Will it cut down on 
bureaucracy or will it create more bureaucrats?
  Madam Speaker, these are the questions we all must ask of the 
President's plan. When the President promised to end welfare as we know 
it, he acknowledged the essential failure of our Nation's welfare 
system. Now is the time for him to live up to his promise.
  Tinkering is not enough. We need to find a new way. I am very 
troubled that the President's plan is simply more of the same way.

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