I do object. Two years and you are off is too limiting. But I think that we should be working so that we get people off, into jobs that pay a family wage and keep them off forever.

No, I do not believe we can be that inflexible. It is a laudable goal to get people off welfare.

I worked the entire time I was on welfare. That was 25 years ago. When I was on welfare, I received enough welfare help to pay for child care, to have health care. That is what I needed. If I had had that through child support, I would not…

My knowledge of welfare is based on experience, my experience as a single working mother with three small children needing welfare in order for my family to survive. That was 25 years ago. But even today, my face is the face of a typical…

I believe that we should be collecting the child support that is owed though court orders which is not paid every year, which is $34 billion. If we even collected half of that, then we would not have a problem today.

Absolutely. I do not think we can have welfare reform unless we have jobs in this Nation which pay a family wage and which train and educate people for those jobs, unless we have true health care reform, and then we can talk about welfare…

I rise today to oppose the Hancock amendments in the strongest terms possible and to urge my colleagues to vote for the Unsoeld perfecting amendment. As a life-long advocate of civil rights, as a career human resources professional, and as…

Aid for Dependent Children can be part of this. If there is not enough, Aid to Dependent Children comes in and add to the support.

I would like to expand just a bit on why I think that $250, even though it is not very much money, it is enough. When people are poor, if they cannot count on the money coming in, they cannot budget. But if they know what is coming in…

I rise today to commemorate women's History Month. I was the chair of the Sonoma County Commission on the status of women in California when 'Women's History Week' was developed. So, in a way, I was the midwife at the birth of this…

first, I want to say that the budget reported by our committee points the Nation in the right direction in almost every way. I would like to thank the gentleman from Minnesota for his hard work in looking out for President Clinton's…

Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to this amendment. If we truly expect to meet our first national education goal, that all children shall enter school ready to learn, then preschool transition programs are absolutely essential. Study…