[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 55 (Friday, March 24, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H3739]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


              HELPING THE PRESIDENT DELIVER ON HIS PROMISE

  (Mr. LaHOOD asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. LaHOOD. This is it, America. Today is the day. We are going to 
pass welfare reform. We are going to give to the President what his own 
party for 2 years could not give him. We are going to give him the 
pledge that he made to all of America, the pledge that his own party 
could not help him deliver for 2 years. We are going to past welfare 
reform and reform a system that has been lousy.
  We are going to require people to work. We are not going to reward 
people for having more children. We are going to reform a lousy system.
  For 2 years the Democrats have controlled this House, the U.S. 
Senate, and the White House, and they could not deliver on their 
promise. So today we will do that.
  And I know that there will be those on their side that will join us 
as we pass welfare reform, because they know it is a lousy system, it 
does not work, and they want to help their President deliver on his 
promist to end welfare as we know it.

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