Bill Clinton: “Of the guarantee--if the bill has provisions in it which provide more child care to these same families, which has more…”

“Of the guarantee--if the bill has provisions in it which provide more child care to these same families, which has more flexibility to enhance the ability of the parents in these families to go to work, which help the young parents who have children at home to be better parents. The money will still be spent on the children. The reason they want to get rid of the guarantee is so the States will have more flexibility to require people to move from welfare to work more quickly. And if that's what's going on, then I can support it, if the rest of the supports are enough. Let me just make one other point. There's a dramatic difference already in the welfare benefits from the poorest to the richest States. There's not really a national guarantee that amounts to much now. Mr. Brokaw. We're not going to leave this alone; we're going to come back to it in a moment----”