[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 75 (Wednesday, June 15, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: June 15, 1994]
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    GREATER COSTS, MINIMUM RESULTS PROMISED BY CLINTON WELFARE PLAN

  (Mr. HOKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOKE. Mr. Speaker, yesterday President Clinton brought forward 
his welfare plan that he had made the centerpiece of his campaign. In 
fact, in fully 40 percent of his ads that he ran when he was 
campaigning for the Presidency, he referred to welfare and ending 
welfare as we know it.
  Come on, Mr. President, we have not ended welfare as we know it at 
all. It has taken 17 months to even suggest a plan, and it does not get 
close to changing the main things that need to be changed in this 
system. In fact, it charges us as taxpayers an additional $8 billion, 
as opposed to the $20 billion in savings that would accrue as a result 
of the Republican plan, and it does not apply to over 90 percent of the 
people who are currently on welfare.
  It is clearly not designed to end welfare as we know it. It is 
clearly designed to somehow make some sort of a treaty between the more 
left-of-center elements of the Democratic Party and those trying to 
keep the President's coalition together.
  We believe very strongly that you have to have a work requirement. 
His work requirement does not apply to anyone over 23 years of age, and 
it reduces the work requirement for two-parent families.
  Everyone agrees, criminologists, social workers, and elected 
officials, that you have to keep a family together if you want to end 
welfare and reduce crime. This plan does not do that.

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