[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 57 (Tuesday, March 28, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H3820-H3821]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                THANKS FOR ENDING WELFARE AS WE KNOW IT

  (Mr. LaTOURETTE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaTOURETTE. Mr. Speaker, I must admit to being a little depressed 
when I left here last week.
  With calls of ``Shame, Shame, Republican, Shame,'' still ringing in 
my ears, I wondered: Was I really mean-spirited? Did our welfare plan 
deserve the name-calling and the references to Nazi Germany?
  I was heartened, though, when I boarded the plane at National and the 
flight attendant did not tell me to sit down and shut up; further 
encouraged when the dog did not bite me and the kids were happy to see 
me; happier still when the folks back home--those who get up every 
morning at 5:30, carry a lunch box, pay their taxes, and obey the law--
called to say thanks for ending welfare as we know it.
  But it was not until Sunday morning, when I got the paper out of the 
tube and saw this cartoon, that my spirits truly soared and I was able 
to separate rhetoric from reality.
  My thanks to cartoonist Kelley from the San Diego Union-Tribune. In 
this picture, Tom has five apples and Ed has one. Tom gives three of 
his apples to 
[[Page H3821]] Ed, and now Ed claims that his apple has been cut in 
two. The query by the cartoonist is ``How can that be?'' And the answer 
is ``That's a Democrat.''


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