[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 196 (Monday, December 11, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Pages S18348-S18349]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           A NEW PARTNERSHIP

  Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, when Americans changed the party in control 
of Congress last November, they also changed the relationship between 
Capitol Hill and our 50 State capitols.
  The Washington, DC-knows-best attitude that was the hallmark of the 
Democrat Congress has been replaced by a return to the 10th amendment. 
Paternalism has been replaced by a new partnership between Congress and 
America's Governors.
  One of the most talented of those Governors is William Weld of 
Massachusetts, who has provided innovative solutions in the areas of 
health care reform and welfare reform--reducing government spending, 
and cutting taxes while he was at it.

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  Governor Weld is now helping to lead the fight in the Republican 
effort to return power to the States, and I wanted to call my 
colleagues' attention to an outstanding column he wrote for today's 
Wall Street Journal.
  Entitled ``Release Us From Federal Nonsense,'' Governor Weld makes 
the point that President Clinton and his liberal allies simply do not 
understand that State governments are better able than Washington, DC 
in providing solutions that work.
  As Governor Weld wrote:

       All across the country, creative Governors are aggressively 
     dealing with problems Washington is just beginning to wake up 
     to. So if the question is whether State governments are 
     responsible enough to dispense welfare and Medicaid funds in 
     our own way--we're more than ready.

  I know I speak for the Republican majority here on Capitol Hill in 
saying to Governor Weld that we are more than ready to continue 
our mission of returning power to the States and to the people.

  I congratulate Governor Weld on an outstanding article, and I look 
forward to working with him in the future--whether that be in Boston or 
in Washington, DC.

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