Bob Dole: “Child care is one thing we are working on. Maintenance of effort has already been taken care of. Job training. We have…”

“Child care is one thing we are working on. Maintenance of effort has already been taken care of. Job training. We have an agreement, if we have an overall agreement, to take the job training provisions out of this bill and have a freestanding bill. That agreement has already been reached between Senator Kassebaum and Senator Kennedy. We will take that up sometime after the appropriations bills are done. Contingency grant fund. That is in response to a request by Senator Daschle and the Governors and Senator DeWine, and certain things that must happen about matching and when it is triggered. Work bonus. That has been done. Some question about vouchers. We have not reached an agreement on that, but we have agreed to expand the current hardship exemption from 15 to 20 percent. Abstinence education; $75 million per year earmarked for abstinence education. Program evaluation was, I guess, a concern of the Senator from New York and others. We authorized $20 million. I think that is adequate. If not, it can be, I assume, adjusted. Then we have been working on a savings provision with reference to food stamps. That has not been agreed to yet. So those are the general areas. There are others that I do not--I know Senator Cohen and Senator Bingaman have an interest in SSI. The thing is, we need to find offsets for these. That is what we are trying to do this afternoon.”