Political Quotes

“I want to raise a question for my colleagues on the other side of the aisle as to whether the proposed Daschle amendment would deal with a very disturbing situation we found in the State of Missouri. Under the current law, and this is one of the reasons people are going nuts with welfare today, we have had an innovative program in Sedalia, MO, where the president pro tempore of the Missouri State Senate worked with the Division of Family Services, which administers AFDC, to try to find employees for a major employer coming to the Sedalia area, bringing 1,500 to 1,600 jobs. They had the very simple idea that if they would bring qualified AFDC recipients to the employer, then they might help solve the problems of the people who did not have jobs and meet the needs of the employer for workers. They sent over a number of workers. Some of the workers have accepted employment, and the system seems to be working very well for them. Some of them chose to find other jobs because they did not like this employer, and that is a good result. Those two classes of people found work. A third class of people was turned down for jobs. They continued to receive AFDC.”