[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 32 (Tuesday, February 21, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H1911]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         MORE ON WELFARE REFORM

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Madam Speaker, America's working families have always 
had terrific compassion for those in need. That has been characteristic 
of America. America is family. And so we approach this welfare debate, 
one of the great problems is American families want welfare to be a 
safety net and not a hammock. But to make it a safety net and not a 
hammock, we have to help people have the skills they need to be able to 
work. And so that means teaching them to fish rather than giving them a 
fish. That is what the issue is.
  And at a time when we are talking about not only killing student 
loans but knocking out student lunches, we obviously are going in the 
wrong direction. We ought to be doing everything we can to invest in 
our young people and to say to everyone, we are all in the same boat, 
but everybody has to pull an oar.
  Let us get a welfare reform that is fair and in the great tradition 
of America, treating us all in the same manner.


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