On the recordFebruary 11, 2009
And that's the whole issue. This is a massive, voluminous spending bill. You know, we were all so proud, I've heard President Clinton brag quite a bit about the fact that welfare reform that took place back in the 1990s. And an integral part of that welfare reform was the requirement that people go to work. I mean, that's kind of what made the new welfare reform start to get people off welfare for the first time in decades. Right now, in this bill, there are provisions which are going to take away that requirement of work on welfare reform, which means it's going to put back into the old welfare system, that was a clearly failed system, I've heard President Clinton stand up and say he takes full credit for the welfare reform that took place in the 1990s, even though some would argue that it was done by the Republican Congress. Irrespective, we shouldn't be taking that away.
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