I hope we can get good support for this amendment on both sides of the aisle and get about the business of passing a good, strong, welfare reform bill this year in a bipartisan manner. The budget resolution goes about balancing the budget in all the wrong ways by undoing the modest good that was done less than a month ago when the Congress finally passed an appropriations bill for fiscal year 1996 that the President could sign. It is incredible to me that we find ourselves debating a budget resolution that undoes that deal that we had just a month ago. I hear a lot of talk from the other side they provide increases in education. Make sure you look beyond the blue smoke and the mirrors because it simply is not true.
Tom Harkin: “I hope we can get good support for this amendment on both sides of the aisle and get about the business of passing a…”
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Discussing welfare reform and budget resolutions during Senate floor debate.
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