Dale Bumpers: “Let me make one other observation, because I know the Senator has labored in the vineyard a long time on welfare. It is…”

“Let me make one other observation, because I know the Senator has labored in the vineyard a long time on welfare. It is one of those issues for which the time never seems right. I said we ought to do it next year. We tried to do it last year, which was not an election year. It did not work out. But I think the Senator, for whom I have the utmost respect--and when I talk about Members of Congress that seem to lack some compassion, I am certainly not talking about my friend from New Mexico. I know he has labored long and hard for this. It is a complex issue. The deeper I got into it on this amendment, the more complex it became. But I will say this--and I think the Senator would agree with me--you cannot make a program like this work, not the way it ought to work, when, for example, a child in Massachusetts or New York or someplace else is worth 10 times as much as a child in Arkansas or Mississippi. We are not ever going to get our act together when we have that much disparity.”