[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 79 (Tuesday, June 21, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: June 21, 1994]
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                             WELFARE WASTE

  (Mr. BAKER of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BAKER of California. Mr. Speaker, earlier this week, President 
Bill Clinton unveiled his welfare reform plan. His bill would cost more 
than $9 billion.
  Do the American people really believe this reform plan will be worth 
the additional expense? Any reform plan that doesn't save the taxpayers 
money isn't really reform.
  Bill Clinton was clever when he promised to end welfare as we know 
it. By moving a few welfare recipients from the Government welfare 
programs to Government make-work programs, the administration thought 
it could fool the American public.
  But to the middle-class taxpayer who must shall out money to pay for 
this shell game, it's still the same old story: More Government, more 
taxes, and more spending.
  Mr. Speaker, the people are tired of gimmicks. They are tired of 
tinkering. And they are tired of half-truths.
  When it comes to the President's welfare reform plan, the Democrats 
are reinventing the Federal bureaucracy as we know it.

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