[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 53 (Wednesday, March 22, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H3423-H3424]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                WELFARE BILL WILL NOT PUT PEOPLE TO WORK

  (Mr. FORD asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. FORD. Mr. Speaker, Republicans are saying we ought to try to work 
together to fix the welfare system. I, too, would agree with that.
  But the Republican-controlled Committee on Rules last night voted out 
a rule with 31 amendments being placed in order on the rule that they 
will bring to the floor today. Only five amendments will be Democratic 
amendments, and none of the five are perfecting amendments that will 
really do something about this particular welfare problem. We want to 
make sure that the children of this country are not cut off from 
breakfast programs and school programs, and the program itself is not 
broken.
  We are doing all of this to be cruel and mean to children in this 
country, just to give to the rich and the wealthy of this Nation some 
more tax cuts. That is wrong, and the Republicans know it, and they are 
going to bring this bill up, and their rhetoric will not work.
  [[Page H3424]] They keep saying, well, what we want to do is to 
create jobs and put people to work. Their welfare bill will not put 
people to work. It will roll you off the welfare rolls, and it is cruel 
and mean to children in this country.

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