[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 45 (Friday, March 10, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H2993]
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         CHILDREN PAY THE PRICE OF FAILED LIBERAL WELFARE STATE

  (Mr. HAYWORTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, at the outset let me say I would associate 
myself in full with the remarks made by my good friend from Ohio.
  Mr. Speaker, let me also observe though that my liberal colleagues on 
the other side of the aisle never tire of telling us how much they care 
for our Nation's children. But if they really cared about children, 
they would join us in reforming a welfare system whose primary victims 
are children.
  Study after study shows that it is children who pay the price for the 
failed liberal welfare state. They do not learn as well. They have 
other developmental problems. They are more likely to go on welfare 
themselves, which starts the cycle all over again.
  There is no doubt, Mr. Speaker, that welfare in its current form is 
bad for children. Yet my liberal Democrat colleagues come down here 
after day, defend the current welfare system, and distort the positive 
changes we will make. They do not want to end welfare as we know it. 
They want to spend more and grow it, and they have declared war on the 
very children they purport to protect.

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