Frank Riggs: “I want to point out to our Democratic colleagues what they have described here on this floor in the last few minutes as…”

“I want to point out to our Democratic colleagues what they have described here on this floor in the last few minutes as pure political partisanship, opportunism on our part, is not limited to Wisconsin. It also, to use their definition, would apply to our frustration in California, seeing our welfare waiver requests to the Federal Government held back here by the Federal Government bureaucracy for months and months and months. This article from the May 28, 1996, San Francisco Chronicle pretty much says it all. It says ``Welfare Overhaul Stymied in D.C., Critics Complain, California Officials Lament,'' I quote from the article: ``President Clinton,'' and by extension congressional Democrats, ``argue that he,'' his administration, the Clinton administration, ``has granted States wide latitude to reform welfare, but California State officials maintain that the White House has stymied their attempts by delaying, refusing and amending requested changes in Federal rules governing Aid to Families with Dependent Children, the main welfare program financed half by the Federal Government and half by the States.'' Listen to what Eloise Anderson, the director of the California Department of Social Services, has to say: ``Clinton is out there publicly saying one thing, but his actions are quite different.''”