Political Quotes

“the point of the editorial is, good God, what happened to our children? Can the present system be as bad as the data depict? If so, let us be rid of that system directly. I wrote to them informing them that we had new data, and it was not significantly different. Well, in the case of Los Angeles, it was; that should be made clear. Otherwise, it was in this range. I wrote a letter in which I simply made the point that--well, first of all, I submitted the correct new data, which took a slightly different view from the editorial. It was a very different view from the editorial in the Washington Times. I ask unanimous consent that my letter and the subsequent editorial with the corrected data be printed in the Record at this point. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: [From the Washington Times, Sept. 5, 1995] The AFDC Numbers: Bad Enough, But Not That Bad Regarding the Sept. 1 editorial ``Welfare shock,'' The Washington Times is entirely correct in stating that the information on AFDC caseloads I presented in the August welfare debate in the Senate was mistaken.”