[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 79 (Tuesday, June 21, 1994)]
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  THE PRESIDENT AND WELFARE RHETORIC: IT IS SNOWING IN THE ``SHOW ME 
                                STATE''

  (Mr. HORN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HORN. Mr. Speaker, last week President Clinton unveiled his 
welfare reform bill.
  According to the most recent Newsweek, candidate Clinton talked about 
welfare reform in 40 percent of his campaign speeches, how ironic that 
not until he was 40 percent into his presidency did he finally get 
around to doing something about it.
  Regretfully, what he is getting around to doing about welfaree reform 
is not very much.
  By choosing Kansas City for the unveiling, President Clinton thinks 
Missouri is the Snow Me State, not the Show Me State.
  You do not need to be from Missouri to know the President is wrong. 
People are not stupid.
  It is amazing that when it comes to welfare reform and taking people 
off a government program, the President could not be more cautious; but 
when it comes to health care and putting every American onto a Federal 
program he could not be more cavalier.
  Regardless of the issue, one thing is clear: every step this 
administration takes is away from middle America and toward Washington. 
And for the President, every issue is an opportunity to do just that.

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