Mark Souder: “I wanted to respond to two of my good friends, first my distinguished colleague, the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Paul]. He…”

“I wanted to respond to two of my good friends, first my distinguished colleague, the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Paul]. He is one of the most consistent Members I have ever met in Congress. As a Libertarian he does not believe in Federal job training or most Federal anything, and in that he has been consistent and logical. I appreciate that, and I support him and vote with him most of the time. But I am not a Libertarian and so sometimes we are going to disagree. The gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Hyde] has been one of my personal heroes. He has been a champion of human values and of conservative principles. On this I believe he is wrong. One question that he had asked is, are we smart enough at the Federal level? The answer is, we are not; that is why we are doing this bill and trying to change it. I want to point out to my conservative friends and people listening across the country that a critical part of helping Americans when we do welfare reform is making sure that when we cut them off the welfare rolls, there are some options out there in helping, particularly targeting to, the most needy.”