[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 54 (Thursday, March 23, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H3576]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       SUCCESSFUL WELFARE ALUMNI

  (Mr. VOLKMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. VOLKMER. Mr. Speaker, we Democrats are for welfare reform, but we 
are for meaningful welfare reform. We are not for mean-spirited, 
radical welfare reform. We are not for taking food away from children 
and infants and giving it to millionaires, because that is what they 
do.
  They take the $70 billion that they cut from school lunch, from AFDC, 
from the food stamp bill, and they are going to give it to the 
millionaires and the big corporations.
  I have heard anecdotal statements down here on the floor from that 
side about what kind of welfare mother we have out there. I want to 
tell you about some welfare mothers. I am going to give you names. I 
have not heard one name from that aside.
  I am going to give you the name of Ms. Keneetha Jackson, I am going 
to give you the name of Ms. Reba Brown, and I am going to give you the 
name of Ms. Shauntel Freelon.
  All three of them used to be on welfare, all three of them are no 
longer on welfare, and Keneetha come May gets a B.A. in business 
administration from the University of Missouri, my alma mater. She has 
worked her way out of it. She does not want to be on welfare.
  That is the Democratic proposal. Get them off of welfare. Help them 
out.


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