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Tom Harkin: “this amendment divides the first reconciliation bill. All this amendment does is it takes welfare reform and separates…”

On the recordMay 22, 1996
this amendment divides the first reconciliation bill. All this amendment does is it takes welfare reform and separates it from Medicaid reform. It puts welfare reform in the first reconciliation bill. It leaves Medicaid reform in the second reconciliation bill so that we can have a straight vote on welfare reform. We should pass welfare reform in this Congress. We should and we can. It is not likely to be signed if it has a controversial Medicaid bill attached to it. So I call this the let-real-welfare-reform-become-law amendment.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa
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Discussing an amendment to separate welfare reform from Medicaid reform in a reconciliation bill.

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