Duncan Faircloth: “President Clinton devoted two of his weekly radio addresses this month to the topic of welfare reform. Like President…”

“President Clinton devoted two of his weekly radio addresses this month to the topic of welfare reform. Like President Clinton, I was elected in 1992, and welfare reform was a key issue in my campaign. Since then I have introduced welfare reform bills in the 103d Congress and in this Congress as well. The current impasse on welfare reform has existed since the President's second veto of welfare legislation sent to him by the Congress. I found the President's recent remarks on welfare reform to be particularly aggravating because so much agreement exists between the President and the Congress on the problems in our welfare system, and on most of the solutions, and yet bipartisan legislation passed by Congress has not become law. In his May 4 address, the President said, "The American people need a welfare system that honors American values: work, family and personal responsibility." The issues related to family and personal responsibility have been of particular interest to me. In fact President Clinton and I strongly agree on the problems in this area.”