[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 9 (Wednesday, January 24, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H776]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         LET US TELL THE TRUTH

  (Mr. VOLKMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. VOLKMER. Mr. Speaker, last night the President mentioned that we 
need to do welfare reform, and I agree with him. This morning the 
Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, on one of the morning talk shows, 
when asked about welfare reform, said that the President had vetoed it 
twice, even though the Senate had passed it with 85 votes.
  Well, Speaker Gingrich, I wish you would tell the truth. That bill 
that the President vetoed, that welfare bill, got only 52 votes in the 
Senate. It did not get 85 votes, Speaker Gingrich. Tell the truth; it 
got only 52. And two Republicans voted against it.
  Now, the President wants to do welfare reform, but he does not want 
to do the radical one that was sent to him. I want to do welfare 
reform. I would much rather take the one that passed the Senate in 
September; not the one in December, the one in September, let us do 
that welfare reform.
  Speaker Gingrich, let us tell the truth.

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