[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 4126]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    VOTE ``NO'' ON THE STIMULUS BILL

  (Mr. COFFMAN of Colorado asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COFFMAN of Colorado. Madam Speaker, buried in the stimulus bill 
that we will be voting on today is a provision that will gut the 
welfare reform measures that the Congress passed in 1996. The 
legislation will move us down a path that will take us away from 
welfare reform that required work, training, and education in exchange 
for benefits, back to the old system that says to single young women 
that, as long as you don't get married, don't get a job, and keep 
having children, that we will continue to subsidize you at taxpayers' 
expense.
  The old system that this legislation moves us to kept generations of 
American families in poverty, and I urge a ``no'' vote on the stimulus 
bill.

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