[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 52 (Tuesday, March 21, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H3341]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         REPUBLICAN WELFARE REFORM ENCOURAGES RESPONSIBILITIES

  (Mr. NORWOOD asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. NORWOOD. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the Personal 
Responsibility Act, because the current welfare system has been an 
utter and complete failure. The welfare system encourages people toward 
three extremely harmful actions. First: Don't get a job. Second: Don't 
get married. Third: Have children out of wedlock--repeatedly. The 
current system subsidizes each of these behaviors with a check from the 
Federal Government. Only the Federal Government could have designed 
such a destructive system.
  Mr. Speaker, this bill will make real change in the system. It will 
change the incentives to encourage people to get a job, get married, 
and be responsible in having children. All the while, we will hear the 
cries from Democrats who are so wrapped up in defending the morally 
bankrupt welfare system that they fail to see its destructive nature.


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