[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16951]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             WELFARE REFORM

  (Mr. CUNNINGHAM asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. CUNNINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, in 1993, we took up the welfare reform 
bill. Many on the other side fought the welfare reform bill, but I want 
my colleagues to know that the events that took place and the successes 
of welfare, I had a meeting with over 100 men and women that had been 
previously welfare recipients in San Diego. Every single one of them 
lauded the bipartisan support of that welfare bill.
  I had a doctor who came to my office and said that a lad with a 14-, 
a 13-, and a 12-year-old girl. The-14-year-old had two children. The 
13-year-old had a child. The 12-year-old, the mother wanted to know 
what was wrong because her 12-year-old could not have a child. We 
changed those kinds of things and bettered it for children.
  What we are asking is for the other body to take up the welfare 
reform bill that has helped millions of low income Americans and pass 
the welfare bill on the Senate side. We will be taking up a resolution 
this week, and we hope that both sides of the aisle will help to help 
the people that need it the most.

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