[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 63 (Thursday, May 16, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H2517]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          FROM WELFARE TO WORK

  (Ms. HART asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. HART. Mr. Speaker, we have the opportunity now to reauthorize one 
of the most successful pieces of legislation this House has ever 
passed, the welfare reform legislation. I think it is important to 
focus on one point that has come to be a part of this reauthorization, 
improvement in this bill. It is one that will be so very helpful to 
families across the United States who are struggling to move from 
welfare to work, welfare to independence, welfare to hope for the 
future. And one of those situations that we have identified that we are 
improving greatly in this bill is the opportunity for moms to go to 
work, and that is because we are adding significant amounts of 
resources for them to get good safe child care for their children.
  There have been so many children elevated from poverty because of the 
welfare reform. We are only going to improve those figures by doing 
what we are doing here today. And one of the best parts, one that I am 
very proud to have been part of, is where we will now give more moms 
the opportunity to move into the independence of work because we are 
going to help them with safe and competent child care.

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