[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 3]
[House]
[Pages 4139-4140]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     WELFARE REFORM REAUTHORIZATION

  (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, my colleagues, I salute my Committee on 
Ways and Means colleague, the gentleman from California (Mr. Herger), 
for introducing the reauthorization of welfare reform; and as my friend 
from South Carolina just mentioned, this is an opportunity to build on 
a genuine success story.
  My friend from Kansas came to the well earlier and he spoke of our 
great former President Ronald Reagan who had the right instincts when 
President Reagan said, Success in terms of helping people needs to be 
defined not by the numbers of people added to the welfare rolls, but by 
the numbers of people who depart those rolls and who go out and get 
jobs.
  What we started in 1996, despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth of 
some, was something truly remarkable and truly constructive. When we 
reaffirm the dignity of work and the reality instead of just the 
rhetoric that the best program in the United States is not a social 
program, it is a job, to reaffirm individual self-worth, to reaffirm 
the dignity of work and the pride and personhood. That is the challenge 
that confronts us as we reauthorize landmark welfare reform.

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