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Harold Volkmer: “last night the President mentioned that we need to do welfare reform, and I agree with him. This morning the Speaker of…”

On the recordJanuary 24, 1996
last night the President mentioned that we need to do welfare reform, and I agree with him. This morning the Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, on one of the morning talk shows, when asked about welfare reform, said that the President had vetoed it twice, even though the Senate had passed it with 85 votes. Well, Speaker Gingrich, I wish you would tell the truth. That bill that the President vetoed, that welfare bill, got only 52 votes in the Senate. It did not get 85 votes, Speaker Gingrich. Tell the truth; it got only 52. And two Republicans voted against it. Now, the President wants to do welfare reform, but he does not want to do the radical one that was sent to him. I want to do welfare reform. I would much rather take the one that passed the Senate in September; not the one in December, the one in September, let us do that welfare reform. Speaker Gingrich, let us tell the truth.
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Harold Volkmer
Democratic · Missouri
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Addressing welfare reform and responding to claims made by Speaker Newt Gingrich.

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