[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 74 (Tuesday, June 14, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: June 14, 1994]
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                             WELFARE REFORM

  (Mr. HOKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HOKE. Madam Speaker, saying the right thing but doing the wrong 
thing. That just about sums up the Bill Clinton Presidency.
  Today the President will unveil his welfare reform plan. He is going 
to give a terrific speech about how we need to end welfare as we know 
it. But then in a couple of weeks he is going to introduce a bill which 
will preserve welfare as we know it.
  This is not unusual for Bill Clinton. Remember when he talked so 
tough on crime and then supported quotas for the death penalty. How 
about when he promised us that middle-class tax cut and then gave us a 
middle-class tax hike. Just another example of saying the right thing 
but doing the wrong thing.
  Madam Speaker, it is very effective to say what the people want to 
hear. It makes for great applause lines and popular speeches. But the 
great Presidents actually meant what they said, and we could count on 
them to do the right thing all of the time.
  So far, Bill Clinton has fallen far short of that standard.

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