Bill Clinton: “It's illegal right now and has been for years for illegal immigrants to get welfare benefits. Let me say that this is…”

“It's illegal right now and has been for years for illegal immigrants to get welfare benefits. Let me say that this is one of the most important issues in the world to me. I started working on welfare reform in 1980 because I was sick of seeing people trapped in a system that was increasingly physically isolating them and making their kids more vulnerable to get in trouble. So I'd been working on it when I was a Governor for a long time. When I became President, I used the authority I had in this law to get out from under certain Federal rules to help States move people to work. We've reduced the welfare rolls by 2 million already. Now I've got a plan with this new welfare reform law to work with the private sector to give employers specific tax incentives to hire people off welfare and to do some other things which will create more jobs in the private sector, at least a million, to move more people from welfare to work. It's very important. And I hope we get a chance to talk about this more. There is not a more important issue. I still remember a woman that I met 10 years ago who said she wanted to get off welfare so her kids could tell--give an answer when they say, ``What does your mother do for a job?'' I met that woman again. She's got four kids. One's got a good job; one's studying to be a doctor; one's in technical school; one's an honor student in high school. I want to make more people like that woman, Lillie Harden. So I've got a plan to do it. And it's just beginning. Senator Dole. Well, another thing we can do--we talk about growth-- we've got a great economic package which I hope we'll discuss later: across the board tax cut; child credits, $500 per child under 18; reduce the capital gains rate; create more jobs and opportunities for people on and off welfare. And we have other provisions: less litigation. The trial lawyers-- big supporters of the President--the trial lawyers, of course they like lawsuits, so every time they have a bill that they want vetoed, the President vetoes it for them. We've got to understand in America that we've got to have growth, create more jobs and more opportunities in the private sector. The President takes credit for all of these people off welfare--the Governors did that. Federal Government doesn't do that. And the Govern- ment doesn't create jobs, they're created in the private sector. Mr. Lehrer. This section, question? Yes, ma'am, on the back row. This is for the President. Capital Gains Tax”