[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 110 (Wednesday, July 24, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H8253]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             PESIDENT CLINTON FLIP-FLOPS ON WELFARE REFORM

  (Mr. KNOLLENBERG asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KNOLLENBERG. Mr. Speaker, what really is going on with the 
President. I know he likes to change his mind and switch his position, 
but this week, the President and his friends were in rare form.
  We know the President has promised to reform welfare as we know it. 
Yet he has managed to veto reform twice behind thinly veiled excuses.
  Then he supported Wisconsin's reform in a speech, but changed his 
mind.
  Then he spoke to the Nation's Governors and said he supported welfare 
reform, but the next day, his handlers were changing his tune.
  The very next day, Leon Panetta said the President would veto the 
House-passed welfare reform. And on Sunday, Vice President Gore said 
the very same thing.
  The following day in Denver, the President changed his mind again 
saying he thinks he can support welfare reform.
  I can not wait for tomorrow.
  With the President flipping around more than a fish out of water, who 
knows where he will land. But remember, as my Democrat friends have 
said, if you do not like the President's position, just wait awhile.
  With all the flips and flops, it may soon be called the Waffle House.
  I yield back the balance of broken Clinton promises.

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