[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 53 (Wednesday, March 22, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H3420]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   OVERHAUL OF WELFARE SYSTEM NEEDED

  (Mr. CHABOT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, our opponents call us cruel and mean 
spirited for wanting to overhaul the welfare system. I cannot think of 
anything crueler or more mean spirited or quite frankly more cynical 
than the system that we have now. Make no mistake, it is the welfare 
system we have got that is cruel and mean spirited and everyone here 
know it. Yet because of the huge clout that the gigantic Federal 
welfare bureaucracy has, there are some politicians who will do 
anything, who will say anything, in order to frustrate reform.
  I have worked in an inner-city recreation center. I have taught in an 
inner-city school in Cincinnati. In those jobs, I have seen the 
devastation that the welfare system brings. Don't tell me we have to 
give up on these kids. We need to completely overhaul the welfare 
system now, and we begin today.

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