[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 38 (Wednesday, March 1, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H2400]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 CHANGES INSTITUTED BY NEW REPUBLICAN PROPOSALS WILL RESTORE THE REAL 
                             AMERICAN DREAM

  (Mr. GANSKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GANSKE. Mr. Speaker, this session of Congress deserves to be 
called historic for many reasons: For its hard work, for keeping its 
promises, for making real changes that America wants. Many of these 
votes have been passed by widely bipartisan measures.
  In just a few more days Congress is going to do something that the 
American people have wanted for decades. We are going to fix the failed 
welfare system. Welfare is not going to be a way of life. It is no 
longer going to trap one generation after another generation after 
another generation.
  A new generation of Americans is going to find out that the American 
Dream is more than a welfare check. The American Dream starts with 
children being children, not having children; with staying in school, 
not dropping out; with finishing high school, not getting high; with 
work, not welfare.
  The changes we will offer for the welfare system will embrace the 
American Dream. Our changes will reaffirm faith in ourselves by 
reaffirming one of the basic tenets of the American way of life--
individual responsibility. So hold on for a few more days, America. 
Help is on the way.


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