[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 32 (Tuesday, February 21, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H1910]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             WELFARE REFORM

  (Mr. MILLER of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MILLER of California. Madam Speaker, the Contract With America 
was just read to us. And it is rather incredible that in the provision 
dealing with welfare reform, the Republicans have no requirement in 
their bill either that the States provide the ability of people on 
welfare to go from welfare to work, but providing job opportunities, 
job training, or employment or that a person who is on welfare not have 
to do something in the way of work to receive that check. That was 
pointed out by the minority leader, the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. 
Gephardt] the other day in a press conference that what the Democrats 
want to do is move somebody from welfare to work, but the Republicans 
and the Governors have no requirement that people go to work.
  I am delighted to read today in the press that the subcommittee 
chairman, the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Shaw] is now considering 
whether or not the Republicans will try to define a work condition in 
their bill realizing that what the American taxpayers want is people to 
go to work for the assistance they receive and what welfare recipients 
want is a job, not a check.
  So I wish the Republicans well. If they cannot come up with one, 
maybe they can adopt the Democratic substitute that will move people 
from welfare to work.


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