[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 55 (Friday, March 24, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H3738]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 CONCEPTS IN THE DEAL BILL WILL SURVIVE

  (Mr. LEVIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LEVIN. Mr. Speaker, the Deal bill did not receive a majority of 
the votes yesterday but its basic concepts will survive, indeed 
prevail.
  The potentially historic unanimous vote of Democrats on the Deal 
substitute resulted not only from hard work but mainly from its 
content.
  In a word, Deal is mainstream, the House Republican version is 
extreme.
  The status quo on welfare is dead; the question is what will replace 
it.
  I predict that the version coming out of the Senate will be much 
closer to Deal than to the House Republican version.
  As to work--the key to welfare reform--as the CBO has started, Deal 
will move people from welfare to work; the House Republican version is 
mainly a hollow promise.
  Likewise on child and medical care for children of parents who should 
be required to move off of welfare to work.
  The Senate also will not adopt the House Republicans' punitive 
provisions relating to children of teen mothers, second children; 
hundreds of thousands of seriously handicapped children; kids in foster 
care or up for adoption, as well as legal taxpaying immigrants.
  Deal will indeed live another day.
  

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