[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 104 (Tuesday, July 16, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H7537]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           REFORM WELFARE NOW

  (Mr. BOEHNER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. BOEHNER. Mr. Speaker, welfare should not be a way of life. 
Republicans are committed to replacing welfare with real work. However, 
President Clinton just wants to play politics with this issue, and 
there is no excuse that is too vague or too convoluted for President 
Clinton. As a candidate in 1992, the President promised to reform 
welfare as we know it, but he has vetoed welfare reform, not just once 
but twice. He has yet to keep his promise to the people of Wisconsin to 
sign their waiver to allow the Wisconsin works program to go into 
effect. He promised that he would have these waivers signed by last 
week, and now it is a week later.
  If welfare reform was so important to President Clinton, why can he 
not sign a welfare reform plan working with this new Congress and 
approve the Wisconsin reform waiver?
  Mr. Speaker, no more excuses, no more Washington political game. Let 
us reform welfare now.

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