Cass Ballenger: “during the 1992 presidential campaign, candidate Clinton promised to…”

On the recordMay 29, 1996

during the 1992 presidential campaign, candidate Clinton promised to end welfare as we know it. Not only has he not ended welfare as we know it, but he has acted as the protector and champion of welfare as we know it. This Republican-led Congress has sent the President a welfare bill based on commonsense reforms, and he vetoed it not once but twice. So much for ending welfare as we know it. Timed to undercut a speech by Senator Robert Dole, the President announced his support for Republican welfare reform planned by Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson. However, he failed to promise his signature on a waiver allowing the Governor's plan to go forward. Such a waiver, implementing these types of reform, would not be necessary if the President had signed the welfare reform legislation sent to him by the Republican-controlled Congress. Again, a great display of this President's skill at saying one thing and doing another.

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Cass Ballenger

North Carolina

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Criticizing President Clinton's handling of welfare reform during a speech.

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Cass Ballenger: “during the 1992 presidential campaign, candidate Clinton promised to end welfare as we know it. Not only has he not…”

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