[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 54 (Thursday, March 23, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H3580]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                            WELFARE PROGRAM

  (Mrs. KELLY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mrs. KELLY. Mr. Speaker, the American people want us to get on with 
repairing our Nation's broken welfare system. They know, as we do, that 
what was intended to be a safety net has become a tragic snare for 
generations of our fellow citizens.
  Today, Republicans will reform regulations on food stamps and 
commodity distribution. These are safety net programs that touch the 
lives of poor people every day.
  Our food stamp proposals will target benefits to those who truly need 
them.
  Our proposals will remove the humiliating piles of paperwork that now 
plague the poor in these programs. This means that resources now 
squandered on bureaucratic red tape will instead go to feed hungry 
Americans.
  Mr. Speaker, our reforms reduce paperwork and regulations that weigh 
about this much to only about this much.
  Most importantly, Mr. Speaker, our reforms will target our tax 
dollars where the American people want them--on the dinner tables of 
our Nation's needy children.

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