[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 77 (Thursday, May 30, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H5652]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 NOW TO ACHIEVE GENUINE WELFARE REFORM

  (Mr. HAYWORTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, some things are totally predictable in 
this Chamber and nationwide. Just as the swallows return to Capistrano 
and the buzzards go back to Hinckley, so, too, does my good friend from 
New Jersey come to the well day after day with what I will 
diplomatically call deliberate disinformation, what the media has 
called Mediscare.
  Here we have it once again. We have gotten the same thing from the 
other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. Again, the President says he want to 
end welfare as we know it. Well, perhaps the President and some of my 
friends on this side of the aisle need to have a little refresher 
course because, Mr. Speaker, we live in the United States of America, 
not the centralized bureaucracy of America.
  The first meaningful step toward genuine welfare reform is to give 
the States the true flexibility to solve problems, not with Washington 
having the States coming on bended knee to ask for waivers, not with a 
centralized bureaucracy. Mr. Speaker, it is time to replace the 
counterfeit compassion of Uncle Sam and big brother with a genuine 
compassion of local people solving local problems.

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