Tom Latham: “like many people, I have had a chance to at least look briefly at this bill. I have grave concerns about what it is…”

“like many people, I have had a chance to at least look briefly at this bill. I have grave concerns about what it is going to do. We are spending more than $1 trillion in a hurried-up fashion here with very little oversight and with no hearings. Everything is just rushing forward. Everyone understands that we have got a real problem-- an economic downturn in this country. We've got to do something, and we've got to act quickly to save those jobs, those opportunities for our families. We've got to get the country back on its feet again so it can prosper. We had a proposal brought forth that was totally ignored--the idea of creating over 6 million new jobs at half the cost of what this bill costs--and it has been totally thrown aside. This would have put money immediately into people's pockets. It would have had them spending and getting this economy going and rolling again. That is exactly what we need to do, but we've never had an opportunity to put those into this bill. It's not only what the bill does as far as spending over $1 trillion. Some provisions in here make dramatic changes in the way our government operates. When we look at reversing welfare reform, the one great thing back from the Clinton administration, this is going to turn that on its head and allow people to stay on welfare for as long as they would like.”