Duncan Faircloth: “on the night of January 9, while this city was buried under a record snowfall, President Clinton vetoed the welfare…”

“on the night of January 9, while this city was buried under a record snowfall, President Clinton vetoed the welfare reform conference report by this Congress, thereby blocking real welfare reform. Recent news accounts suggest that an effort is underway to resurrect the Senate-passed welfare bill and send that to the President. I rise today to state that I would be strongly opposed to doing that. As I just said, Mr. President, the fact of the matter is simply this: The Congress has passed a bill and demonstrated its commitment to real welfare reform. It is time the President quit talking about welfare reform and demonstrate his commitment to it. Mr. President, the President promised to ``end welfare as we know it,'' but I think it is time he did a better job explaining what he means by ending welfare as we know it before we send him another bill. The welfare reform bill that President Clinton opposes takes the first step in 60 years of the welfare programs toward requiring that recipients work for their benefits. The welfare reform bill that President Clinton opposes takes important steps to stop and slow the growth in illegitimacy, which is the root cause of welfare dependency, and we are still subsidizing it.”