FAMILY SELF-SUFFICIENCY ACT

Addresses

Campaign for Human Development—Theological-Historical Roots: Joseph Bernadin, S13174-S13176 [11SE]

Amendments

Enact (H.R. 4), S11575, S11640 [5AU], S11894 [8AU], S12428, S12511 [11AU], S12802, S12804, S12807, S12810, S12811, S12819, S12820, S12823, S12825, S12827, S12829, S12842, S12864, S12867, S12868, S12869, S12870 [7SE], S12874, S12875, S12876, S12877, S12878, S12883, S12885, S12886, S12887, S12889, S12890, S12891, S12892, S12893, S12895, S12896, S12897, S12898, S12899, S12900, S12901, S12902, S12903, S12904, S12905, S12906, S12907, S12908, S12910, S12911, S12914, S12915, S12916, S12917, S12918, S12920, S12925, S12926, S12927, S12928, S12929, S12931, S12932, S12933, S12937, S12938, S12939, S12940, S12941, S12942, S12944, S12945, S12946, S12947, S12948, S12949, S12950, S12951, S12952, S12953, S12954, S12955, S12956, S12957, S12958, S12968, S12969, S12970, S12971, S12972, S12973, S12976, S12977, S12978, S12984, S12985, S12986, S12987, S12988, S12995, S12996, S13031, S13032, S13033, S13034, S13035, S13036, S13037, S13038, S13040, S13044, S13045, S13048, S13049, S13050, S13051, S13054, S13055, S13056, S13057, S13058, S13059, S13060, S13061, S13064, S13066, S13070, S13071, S13120, S13121, S13123, S13126, S13128, S13129, S13130, S13133, S13139 [8SE], S13203 [11SE], S13495, S13547 [13SE], S13561, S13567, S13571, S13572, S13573 [14SE], S13628, S13629, S13632, S13634, S13636, S13637, S13642, S13644, S13646, S13652, S13667, S13670 [15SE], S13771, S13866 [19SE]

Appointments

Conferees: H.R. 4, Personal Responsibility Act, S15199 [17OC], H9735 [29SE]

———H.R. 4, provisions, H10670 [24OC]

Articles and editorials

Addicts Squander Checks on Drugs, Alcohol—Your Cash Supports Abusers' Habits, S11772-S11774 [7AU]

AFDC Numbers—Bad Enough, But Not That Bad, S12681 [6SE]

Changes in Welfare Rules Fulfill Will of the People, S11765 [7AU]

Charting the State of Welfare, S12681 [6SE]

Firm Foundations—New Approach to Welfare Reform—Humility, S14562 [28SE]

Four Drug Firms Could Gain $1 Billion Under GOP Nutrition-Program Revision, S13524 [13SE]

Friendless, Foundlings, and Homeless Half-Orphans, S12813-S12818 [7SE]

Ignored Law—Statutory Rape, S11823 [8AU]

Mentor Projects a Good Idea, S11762 [7AU]

Program Helps Iowans Get Off Welfare, S11765 [7AU]

Take Good Ideas and Run With Them, S11763 [7AU]

This One's Different, S11765 [7AU]

Way Out of the Welfare Bind, S13482 [13SE]

Welfare Contract a Worthwhile Idea, S11765 [7AU], S12910 [8SE]

Welfare Reform Shows Promise, S11764 [7AU]

Welfare Shock, S12680 [6SE]

Welfare System Finally Works, S11765 [7AU]

Welfare Winner—Iowa's Family Investment Plan Could Be a National Model, S11763 [7AU]

Welfare—Two Kinds of Compromise, S12758 [7SE]

Women and Children First?, S13560 [14SE]

Work Not Welfare in the Mormon Church, S13136 [8SE]

Working While on Welfare, S13507 [13SE]

Cloture motions

Enact (H.R. 4), S13199 [11SE]

Descriptions

Iowa Family Investment Program, S12883 [8SE]

Letters

Administration for Children and Families staff working on AFDC and Job Opportunities and Basic Skills programs: Mary Jo Bane, Dept. of HHS, S11757 [7AU]

Equal welfare treatment for naturalized and native-born citizens: Andrew Fois, Dept. of Justice, S12826 [7SE], S13590 [14SE]

———Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mayor of New York, NY, S13591 [14SE]

———several State and local organizations, S13591 [14SE]

Expenditure of welfare funds in accordance with State laws and procedures: James J. Lack, National Conference of State Legislatures, S12803 [7SE]

Federal child care programs: Fred Kammer, Catholic Charities U.S.A., S13184 [11SE], S13534 [13SE], S13600 [14SE]

———several educational organizations, S13185 [11SE]

Food Stamp Block Grant Program: A. Wayne Lord, National Peanut Council, Inc., S13339 [12SE]

———David Beckmann, Bread for the World (organization), S13635 [15SE]

———Food Research and Action Center, S13635 [15SE]

———Kevin Burke, Food Distributors Association, S13339 [12SE]

———Marian Wright Edelman, Children's Defense Fund, S13635 [15SE]

———Sheri Spader, National Cattleman's Association, S13339 [12SE]

———Tim Hammonds, Food Marketing Institute, S13338 [12SE]

———Tommy G. Thompson, Governor of Wisconsin, S13338 [12SE]

Public welfare programs reform: George V. Voinovich, Governor of Ohio, S13185 [11SE]

———Jane L. Campbell, National Conference of State Legislatures, S13184 [11SE]

———Senator Harkin, S12688 [6SE]

State corrective action plans relative to block grant funding penalties: A. Sidney Johnson III, American Public Welfare Association, S13778 [19SE]

Treatment of legal aliens relative to AFDC, SSI, and food stamp programs: Robert J. Miller, Governor of Nevada, S13596 [14SE]

Virginia welfare reform programs: George Allen, Governor of Virginia, S13614 [14SE]

Memorandums

Rising Caseloads in the AFDC Program: CBO, S12774 [7SE]

Motions

Enact (H.R. 4), S13195 [11SE], H14136 [6DE]

Remarks in House

Enact (H.R. 4), H9223 [19SE], H9501-H9504 [25SE], H10783, H10808 [25OC], H12069 [9NO], H14136 [6DE]

Remarks in Senate

AFDC: funding, S13558-S13561 [14SE]

———require recipients to enter into a personal responsibility contract, S12908-S12910 [8SE]

———work requirement for food stamp recipients, S13152-S13158, S13196-S13198 [11SE], S13377 [12SE]

Child and Adult Care Food Program: participation, S12828 [7SE]

Children and youth: consolidate and expand Federal child care programs, S12784 [7SE], S12918-S12923, S12929-S12931 [8SE], S13147-S13150, S13164 [11SE], S13776 [19SE]

———development of parent-child participation programs, S13588, S13603 [14SE]

———impose child support obligations on paternal grandparents when both parents are minors, S12810 [7SE], S13569 [14SE]

———teenage pregnancies, S11822-S11824 [8AU]

Employment: funding for job training programs for displaced homemakers, S12889 [8SE]

———require welfare recipients to work, S11825-S11830 [8AU]

Enact (H.R. 4), S11556, S11575-S11602, S11711-S11713 [5AU], S11735-S11784, S11800-S11802 [7AU], S11803-S11845, S11888-S11890 [8AU], S12360, S12363, S12428, S12510-S12513 [11AU], S12622 [5SE], S12680-S12715 [6SE], S12757-S12796, S12802-S12830 [7SE], S12873-S12958, S13136, S13139 [8SE], S13147-S13150, S13152-S13207 [11SE], S13315-S13378 [12SE], S13481-S13539 [13SE], S13558-S13575, S13578-S13617 [14SE], S13627-S13653, S13673 [15SE], S13746 [18SE], S13749, S13751, S13752, S13770-S13804 [19SE], S13885 [20SE], S14097 [21SE], S14562 [28SE], S14772-S14777 [29SE], S15360 [19OC], S18262-S18264 [8DE]

———unanimous-consent agreement, S11736, S11782 [7AU], S12910, S13138 [8SE], S13497, S13524 [13SE], S13606 [14SE], S13640, S13653 [15SE]

Financial institutions: quarterly reporting by banks relative to child support, S13594-S13596 [14SE]

Food stamps: replace with State block grant programs, S12924 [8SE], S13334-S13341 [12SE]

Immigration: prohibit Federal benefits for illegal aliens, S12898 [8SE]

Iowa: Family Investment Program implementation, S12883 [8SE]

Job Opportunities for Low-Income Individuals Program: funding, S12820-S12822 [7SE]

LIHEAP: funding, S13573-S13575 [14SE]

Native Americans: enforcement of child support agreements between the States and tribal organizations, S13565-S13567 [14SE]

———funding for family assistance grants, S13373, S13374 [12SE], S13489-S13491 [13SE]

———provide social services block grants to tribes, S12932, S12934-S12937 [8SE]

Public welfare programs: abstinence education funding, S13375, S13376 [12SE]

———allow States to use an income tax intercept to collect overpayments in assistance, S13206 [11SE]

———assignment of block grant programs to county governments, S12827 [7SE]

———assistance to minors relative to time limitations of benefits, S12812-S12819, S12821 [7SE], S13342-S13345 [12SE], S13481-S13483 [13SE], S13644, S13645 [15SE]

———awarding of national rapid response grants for dislocated workers, S12903 [8SE]

———benefit eligibility for children relative to paternity establishment, S12898 [8SE]

———benefits relative to criminal probation, parole violators, and fugitive felons, S12824 [7SE], S12874 [8SE]

———calculation of family participation rates in States, S13374 [12SE], S13491 [13SE]

———deny assistance for out-of-wedlock births to minors, S13507-S13516, S13527-S13529 [13SE], S13562, S13578 [14SE]

———development of adult supervised living arrangements for unmarried teenage mothers, S13529-S13533 [13SE], S13598-S13602 [14SE]

———development of tamper-resistant Social Security card, S12915 [8SE]

———eliminate retroactive requirements for legal immigrants, S13606-S13609 [14SE], S13637-S13639 [15SE]

———equal treatment of naturalized and native-born citizens, S12826, S12827 [7SE], S13590-S13594, S13604 [14SE]

———establish a job placement performance incentive bonus to States for placing individuals in unsubsidized jobs, S13504-S13507 [13SE]

———establish community works progress programs, S13571, S13572, S13609 [14SE], S13631, S13632, S13673 [15SE]

———establish State and county demonstration programs, S13571 [14SE]

———establish State contingency fund, S13373 [12SE], S13780 [19SE]

———exempt elderly, disabled, and children from optional State food assistance block grants, S13635, S13636 [15SE]

———exempt victims of domestic violence from certain eligibility requirements, S13525-S13527 [13SE], S13561, S13562 [14SE]

———expenditure of funds in accordance with State laws and procedures, S12802-S12804 [7SE], S12875 [8SE]

———funding for State administrative purposes, S12894 [8SE]

———funding for State drug addiction and alcoholism treatment programs, S13628, S13634 [15SE]

———funding formula for children's programs, S12927 [8SE], S13351-S13368 [12SE], S13484-S13486, S13536, S13537 [13SE], S13639, S13640, S13646 [15SE]

———funding to States to handle additional growth in welfare caseloads, S12808 [7SE], S13200-S13206 [11SE], S13316, S13317 [12SE]

———maintain partnership between the Federal Government and the States, S12910 [8SE]

———participation of religious organizations, S13516-S13522 [13SE]

———prohibit financial assistance to persons delinquent in child support payments, S12830 [7SE], S12897 [8SE]

———prohibit the use of Federal funds for legal challenges to welfare reform, S13640-S13641 [15SE]

———require development of strategic plan for State family assistance programs, S13628 [15SE]

———require welfare recipients to work relative to State assistance services, S12819 [7SE], S13345-S13351 [12SE], S13483 [13SE]

———restrict benefits for foster care and adoption assistance programs relative to noncitizens, S13376 [12SE], S13515 [13SE]

———school requirements relative to teenage recipients, S13529, S13533 [13SE]

———State authority to reserve welfare grant funding, S12820 [7SE]

———State determination of benefits relative to children born to current welfare recipients, S13368-S13372 [12SE], S13487-S13489 [13SE]

———State management of additional responsibilities through information technology, S13776 [19SE]

———State sanctioning of recipients relative to drug testing, S12888 [8SE]

———treatment of legal aliens relative to AFDC, SSI, and food stamp programs, S13596-S13598, S13605 [14SE]

———use of public school facilities for certain child care programs, S13570, S13572 [14SE]

Senior Community Service Employment Program: funding, S13491-S13495 [13SE]

SSI: replace with State block grant programs, S12924 [8SE]

States: welfare grant levels relative to out-of-wedlock birth rate, S13533-S13536 [13SE], S13563-S13565 [14SE]

Taxation: treatment of adoption expenses, S13584-S13588 [14SE]

———treatment of charitable contributions to poverty assistance organizations, S12906, S12924 [8SE], S13497-S13504 [13SE]

WIC: competitive bidding for infant formula, S13523, S13524 [13SE]

Resolutions by organizations

State control of Federal welfare block grant funds: American Legislative Exchange Council, S12803 [7SE]

———National Speakers Conference, S12803 [7SE]

Statements

Federal Child Care Programs: Gerald H. Miller and A. Sidney Johnson III, American Public Welfare Association, S13184 [11SE]

———Mary Anderson Cooper, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., S13183 [11SE]

Teen Pregnancy and Parenthood in Welfare Reform: John H. Ricard, S13599 [14SE]

———Mary Anderson Cooper, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., S13600 [14SE]

Summaries

Graham-Bumpers Children's Fair Share Amendment to H.R. 4, Family Self-Sufficiency Act, S13366-S13368 [12SE]

Leadership Amendment to H.R. 4, Family Self-Sufficiency Act, S13650 [15SE]

Welfare Bill Modifications: Senator Dole, S12913 [8SE]

Tables

Additional costs of child care and work programs under the Senate Republican leadership welfare plan, S13366 [12SE]

Change in average numbers of AFDC recipients, S13330 [12SE]

Comparison of State allocations, S13206 [11SE]

Distribution of total time on welfare: Urban Institute, S12705 [6SE]

Dynamic growth State welfare formula analysis, S13366 [12SE]

Number of families affected by a 60-month time limit on welfare: Urban Institute, S12705 [6SE]

Preliminary estimate of the number of children denied AFDC due to time limit in the Senate Republican plan, S12818 [7SE]

Proposed allocations to the States under S. 1120, Dole welfare legislation, 1996-2000, S13205 [11SE]

Public welfare programs costs, S12777 [7SE]

State welfare allocation per child in poverty, S13365 [12SE]

State-by-State welfare allocations, S13364 [12SE]

Temporary Assistance For Needy Families Block Grant Program estimated allocations, S13204 [11SE]

Texts of

H.R. 4, provisions, S11576-S11601 [5AU]