[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 55 (Friday, March 24, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H3737]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       CHANGING THE WELFARE MESS

  (Mr. CHABOT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, when President Clinton was a candidate, he 
promised to end welfare as we know it. But for the past 2 years, 
neither the President nor the Democrat-controlled Congress did a thing 
to change the welfare mess.

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  Then came November, and the American people said it is time for a 
change. Now the Republican majority is doing something that the 
Democrats could never bring themselves to do. We are changing the 
current broken-down welfare system that traps people in a hopeless 
cycle of dependence into a system that offers hope for the future.
  Tough work requirements, personal responsibility, and emphasis on the 
family. The change is here.

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