As President Ronald Reagan said, the greatest social program is a job.
We need to be much better at that.
What we are lacking is the bipartisan support needed to get it done.
If every life were truly sacred in this country, we wouldn't be having a hearing about programs to keep mothers and their children healthy, ...
When we passed welfare reform it was principled, work-oriented, a system wide overhaul, and it worked.
We were trying to get money to businesses, we were trying to get money to state and local governments.
Thank you, Mr. Malik, for your testimony.
Given the current rate of inflation, the idea we ought to pile more money into the system is an almost suicidal act of hubris.
The fact is that the Clinton-Gingrich budgets worked, they reduced the inflation rate, they reduced the tax rate, they created jobs.
My name is on it as the author, even though I didn't write one word of it.
That is not our party.