[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 76 (Thursday, June 16, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: June 16, 1994]
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                            WELFARE REFORM?

  (Mr. GOODLATTE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GOODLATTE. Mr. Speaker, what is President Clinton's idea of 
welfare reform? Nine point three billion dollars in more welfare. The 
President promised to end welfare as we know it. Unfortunately it seems 
the President actually likes welfare as we know it. After all, not only 
does the President want to pour an extra $9.3 billion into the failing 
welfare bureaucracy, but he wants to leave the door wide open for 
additional spending.
  Under the President's plan, Mr. Speaker, Americans will be shelling 
out over $500 billion by the year 2000. That is over $4,000 per year to 
be paid by the average hard-working American family.
  This is outrageous. Americans are sick of wasting their hard earned 
money on handouts which create a permanent underclass, and the 
President's response is to increase welfare spending by over $9 
billion.
  If the President wants to end welfare as we know it, he should start 
by eliminating useless bureaucratic spending programs, and slash 
funding for a domestic program that has done enough damage. Clearly, an 
additional $9.3 billion is not the answer.

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