[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 42 (Tuesday, March 7, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H2735]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


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                             WELFARE REFORM

  (Mr. SHAW asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SHAW. Mr. Speaker, I have been sitting here listening to the 
speakers that came before me here this morning on the House floor 
criticizing the Republicans for what they are trying to do that is to 
reform welfare, criticizing the Republicans for bringing a child 
support bill to the floor and saying that it was not tough enough.
  I will say to my friends in the Democrat Party you had 40 years to 
bring welfare reform to the floor and you never brought it; you had 40 
years to bring a child support bill to the floor that was tough, and 
you never did it.
  Now we are looking to you and we are reaching out to you as we are to 
the President, who gave a speech within the last hour on welfare 
reform, we are reaching out and saying come now and join with us 
because we are moving it forward. We are going to have welfare reform. 
It is going to pass this House. We are going to have a lot of Democrats 
that are going to be joining the Republicans who are pushing this 
agenda forward.
  And you know what? We are going to be doing things for the poor that 
you never did. We are going to be doing things for the children that 
you neglected and we are going to reform welfare.

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