[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 12 (Friday, January 20, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H415-H416]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                   TIME TO END WELFARE AS WE KNOW IT

  (Mr. FUNDERBURK asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mr. FUNDERBURK. Mr. Speaker, when Bill Clinton campaigned for 
President as a new Democrat he promised to end welfare as we know it. 
But, unfortunately, he talked right and governed left. His first so-
called reform expanded welfare spending by $110 billion and jettisoned 
what was left of workfare.
  Mr. Clinton isn't the first liberal to promise reform. Since 1965 we 
have spent over $5 trillion on welfare and all we have to show is 
disintegrating families, children having children, burned out cities, 
and a 30 percent illegitimacy rate.
  Last November, the American people said, ``enough is enough.'' They 
want to stop the vicious cycle of dependence which has morally 
bankrupted three 
[[Page H416]] generations of Americans. Entitlements are not rights. 
Assistance, if needed, must be temporary--2 years and you're out. We 
need workfare now. If you can work--but won't--don't ask the taxpayer 
for help. We can no longer afford a government which subsidizes single 
mothers who continue to have more children. Unwed mothers must identify 
the fathers of their children and we must rein in deadbeat dads who 
refuse to support their families.
  Mr. Speaker, time is running out, we must act quickly and forcefully 
to end the liberal welfare state. For the sake of every American, it 
really is past time to end welfare as we know it.


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