[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 PROGRAM WILL CONTINUE TO ENSLAVE ANOTHER GENERATION

  (Mr. MICA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MICA. Madam Speaker, today, the administration is announcing its 
welfare reform proposal. If Members are holding their breath that it 
will end welfare as we know it, they should not hold their breath. If 
they are hoping it will cut spending on welfare, think again. If they 
are hoping it will create more jobs in the private sector, they are 
about to be disappointed.
  Here is what it does, Madam Speaker. It spends billions more for 
Government programs. It proposes to take welfare recipients, and, I 
might add, a small percent, and it takes them off of one Government 
program and it puts them on another Government program. The Clinton 
welfare reform program is another Government-based program to continue 
the enslavement of another generation.
  Why not create real full-time jobs in the private sector? Why not 
promote investment, capital expansion, and real opportunity? Why 
continue to extinguish the American dream with more Government-based 
solutions, with more make-work jobs, with more shell games for the 
taxpayers' hard-earned dollars?
  Only when we look at realistic solutions will we really end welfare 
as we, unfortunately, know it.

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