Jack Kingston: “we wanted to talk tonight in response to some of the things that have been going on in Washington. I have with me the…”

“we wanted to talk tonight in response to some of the things that have been going on in Washington. I have with me the gentleman from Minnesota [Mr. Gutknecht] and the gentleman from Arizona [Mr. Hayworth]. I think our first topic that we will go ahead and talk about is this Wisconsin waiver, which basically is saying it gives the State of Wisconsin the right to make their own laws on governing and reforming welfare. President Clinton went out there 2 weeks ago and said, ``I support the waiver for you, I like what you're doing, it's great,'' and when the cameras were on, he was 100 percent for it. Then when the cameras turned off, he backed off. But the second thing that happened is the Republican Party said, ``Great, a bipartisan chance to work on welfare reform. We welcome it.'' Here is a President who said he wanted to end welfare as we know it, not extend welfare as he has been doing, so let us give him the Wisconsin waiver. It has been debated, as I understand it from the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Klug], 18 months in the Wisconsin Legislature.”