[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 91 (Thursday, July 14, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 14, 1994]
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                          WELFARE REFORM CAPS

  (Mr. BARCA of Wisconsin asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BARCA of Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, Wisconsin has prided itself on 
our efforts to reform our welfare system because we accept the goal of 
making it so that people would always be better off by working than not 
working. We are proud that another Wisconsinite, Secretary Donna 
Shalala, is leading the effort for the administration.
  President Clinton has put forward a very solid road map that we can 
build on. He has set forward the goals of making work pay, the goals of 
curbing teen pregnancy, to try and put an emphasis on prevention and 
having teenagers live with their parents rather than in their own 
apartments; to collect child support to ease the burden on taxpayers so 
that they do not have to raise other peoples' children; to put time 
limits on the system so that we can turn a welfare check into a 
paycheck.
  Mr. Speaker, I applaud our chairman of the Committee on Ways and 
Means, the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Gibbons]. He has indicated he is 
going to try and move this bill forward and I say let us move it 
forward, pass it, work together and get it done.

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