Joseph Knollenberg: “just this week, and in connection with what the previous speaker was talking about, where are we on this whole thing…”

“just this week, and in connection with what the previous speaker was talking about, where are we on this whole thing, where really is the President on all of this? He changed his mind about welfare again. He said in a speech to the Nation's Governors just 2 days ago that he is going to sign welfare reform. He also said he is committed to supporting Wisconsin's welfare reform plan. I can hear the White House spinmeisters now spinning their wheels and saying, ``how do we explain this to the public?'' Who knows where the President is? Maybe he will sign the very same welfare reform he has vetoed twice. Perhaps he will okay Wisconsin's welfare waiver. Who knows? My Democrat friends in the Congress have said if you do not like where the President stands, just wait a while. Enough of the doubletalk, I would say. Enough of the flips. It is time the President lived up to the 1992 promise to change welfare as we know it. Our current welfare system has failed miserably over the last 30 years. It is time to get under the hood and fix the problem.”