[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 55 (Friday, March 24, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H3740]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            SUPPORT AND PASS THE NEW WELFARE REFORM PACKAGE

  (Mr. TIAHRT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TIAHRT. Mr. Speaker, this country has spent $5 trillion over the 
last 30 years on a system that has produced more people than ever in 
poverty. It is a broken system that teaches exactly the wrong things. 
It is antiwork, it is antiproperty, and it is antifamily.
  Because of this system, we have condemned second and third 
generations to the same life of poverty, not only financial poverty but 
poverty of spirit.
  People need to work. You cannot have self-esteem without 
accomplishment. You cannot have accomplishment without work.
  Let us give our people hope, dignity through work. Let us pass H.R. 
4, the new welfare reform package.


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