Lynn C. Woolsey

as a member of the Labor-Management Relations Subcommittee, I am extremely proud of the women's health provisions contained in the subcommittee's health care bill. Our bill improves coverage of services that women urgently need such as…

I rise today to urge my colleagues to vote in favor of the rule and the conference report on the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances bill. The issue of ensuring women's access to abortion clinics has been debated in Congress long enough…

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.

What I will point out is the safety net of welfare, and what we need to change, so we will not keep welfare recipients, particularly single mothers, on welfare for the long term. That is by investing in the short term for long-term…

Noncitizens, or illegal aliens are not, noncitizens are. Yes, I believe that is part of our society. If we want to debate a change in the Constitution, let us do that later.

Noncitizens are not covered by welfare. They have not been, and there are no proposals----

I agree that we should not punish the children of those mothers, and that $63 a month is not enough----

I do not agree with your thesis that welfare and slavery go hand in hand. What I would like to address, however, is child support.

How do you explain the Congressional Budget Office report which clearly shows the recession was a major factor in this increased welfare case load since 1989? I don't need a report to tell me that, because I know from personal experience…

Aid for dependent children in your State pays an average of $367 a month. Let me ask you: Do you think that is living high on the hog?

Well, as a matter of fact, aid for dependent children, which is welfare, and that is what we are talking about tonight, welfare reform, we are not talking about food stamp reform.

Let me remind you, I was educated, I was healthy, my children were healthy, and you know I was aggressive and assertive. I was on welfare for 3 years.

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…

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

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.

Congresswoman, I was on welfare for 3 years. I do not know what my children would have done without that safety net. Since Republicans propose completely denying all benefits to these families after a short period of time, what do you…

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…

Mr. Franks, I hope you can raise that child on an average of $63 a month. That is not enough of an incentive to have another child. Let me tell you, welfare receipents have smaller families than the average family in this Nation, a family…

I think I have to clear something up. One percent of the Nation got a lot richer while the rest of the country got a lot poorer over the last 12 years.

Mr. Franks, I can tell you as a former welfare mother that the main reason families are on welfare in the first place is because there aren't enough jobs that pay a family wage, and there aren't the support systems like child care and…

What I would like to talk to you about right now is why I had to go on welfare in the first place, because I did not have child support, I did not have health care, and right now out of the $47 billion that is owed in court-ordered child…

I was on welfare for 3 years. Your district in New York City has an unemployment rate of 11.7 percent; almost 30 percent of the households are headed by women. How many people on welfare in your district could get off in 2 years?

My bill invests in getting people ready to go to work, getting them off the welfare system.

I am pleased to join my freshman class colleagues here today, and I compliment the gentleman from South Carolina [Mr. Clyburn] and the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Rush] for their work on welfare reform. We were elected because this Nation…

I rise to join my colleagues today in honoring the memory of the 1.5 million Armenians who perished during the genocide of 1915. This horrible period still haunts us today, and the memory of the men, women and children who perished…