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


                     IT IS TIME TO SET TERM LIMITS

  (Mr. CHABOT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, I do not see how anyone could have watched 
the debate over welfare reform last week and not come away in favor of 
term limits.
  Even though just about everybody agrees that the current welfare 
system is a mess, in fact, an abysmal failure, we saw last week the 
architects of the present welfare system stream to this floor to 
denounce attempts at reform. Sure, they couched their opposition in 
politically correct terms. They have learned how to do that around 
here.
  We do need change, they admit, just not this change. The very people 
who fought the hardest against welfare reform were the same Members who 
for decades have voted to fund and expand the welfare monstrosity.
  Some folks seem to be a little too proud of their handiwork and a 
little too close to the bureaucracies they have built.
  Mr. Speaker, last week we set term limits on welfare recipients. Now 
we ought to set term limits on the group that created the welfare mess 
in this country in the first place.


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