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On the recordSeptember 8, 1995
again, in response to my friend, it is the fact that in the 1992 campaign, then candidate, now President Clinton proposed to end welfare as we know it. In an address to Georgetown University opening his campaign in 1991, he proposed a 2-year limit and now we begin to see the consequences. I have nothing more to say than that except to concede, I hope graciously, the Senator is right. We are ending the Federal entitlement to States for the support of dependent children and it is ending what we have known as welfare.
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Patrick Moynihan
Illinois
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Discussing the implications of welfare reform proposed by President Clinton during the 1992 campaign.

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