Political Quotes

“I support all the concepts of the motion to instruct conferees. I think the gentleman from Minnesota has done a good job here, but I would just like to point out where we have gone in the welfare reform package. We had it coming out of committee, we took it to the floor of the House, we made some amendments to it which I think made it a better bill. It went over to the Senate, they acted on it. I think they have added some aspects to it or reaffirmed what we have done in the House, which makes it a better bill. Hopefully the conferees can sit down and meet and also make some of the improvements along some of the lines that have been discussed here to make it an even better bill. I think we are going to have welfare reform in the United States. I think we need to be very serious about what is going to be in it. Quite frankly, I think we have worked hard to actually make this a very good piece of legislation. I could not agree more, we should not have unfunded mandates. We have now preserved Medicaid coverage almost completely in this bill. We need to protect that.”