Gary Franks

I rise once again to voice my support of H.R. 3525, the Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996...we can investigate, arrest, and convict more of those who terrorize with fire or vandalism.

Then we give that person three options: Find a job and support your children, go to jail, or you have a State-supported type job as we talked about before, community service type job. We also within our bill talk about training and we talk…

Our teenage fathers are eligible, just like anybody else. I agree with you. I know a male today who has had two women pregnant at the same time in the hospital and has not been accountable for taking care of either one of them. You are…

No, I do not know why we are here defending Charles Murray. We are giving him a lot of attention. Hopefully, he has a book he is trying to push. You are doing wonders to make his book become a best seller. I am not here to support Charles…

As the father of teenagers, both male and female, I strongly support that notion, but within the Republican bill, obviously there is a requirement of no additional payments to the mother, a requirement that she may have to live at home…

The problem I have with all these individuals is the fathers we have not identified, who are not taking care of their children.

Ms. Woolsey, I say, God bless you. You are an example of a success story, and I am pleased to be able to see that, and to be able to hear you talk about it.

More blacks were able, just looking at the black population alone, more blacks were able to move into the middle class during the 1980's than any other time in our history. More blacks were able to buy a home during the 1980's than at any…

I have not seen that report, but as I stated to you before, we have seen a growth, a rapid growth, of teenaged birth in our society. In the 1980's we had a tremendous amount of economic prosperity during the 1980's, as you well know. We…

There are a number of individuals today who are earning $25,000, $30,000, and $40,000 a year, and upon their having another baby they cannot walk in to their supervisors and demand an increase in pay.

They cannot go in and ask for an increase in pay. My last question, and I will try to be brief with this, lastly, do you believe that noncitizens should receive welfare, with the exception of refugees and individuals over the age of 75?

Do you agree that we should pay mothers more money for having more babies? That is the question.

Another question for you, both slavery and welfare will reward or praise the mother for having another child. For the slave, obviously more children would increase the slave master's work force. Our welfare system gives mothers more money…

In my remarks, I talked about how there was a lack of education, a lack of hope, the plantation being very similar to a project. I talked about the fact that today you have people entrapped. Can you tell me any differences? If not--we…

Mr. Moderator, the intent of welfare was to serve as a temporary safety net to help people get back on their feet, yes. However, it has gone off course considerably. In my opening statement I compared welfare to slavery. We can all agree…