John Shaw: “Mr. Speaker, I would invite those who control the television cameras which broadcast these proceedings from coast to…”

“Mr. Speaker, I would invite those who control the television cameras which broadcast these proceedings from coast to coast and around the world to take the proper perspective as I address in this well one of the dangers we face from those who would oppose this reconciliation act, one of the dangers we face from those who continue to distort what is at stake for the American people. Mr. Speaker, I hold here H.R. 3734, one of the crowning achievements of the 104th Congress. Mr. Speaker, it is this bill that took the important steps in the 104th Congress to change welfare as we knew it, to move people from welfare to work. Mr. Speaker, the danger in opposing the provisions that the new majority offers in this act would have the effect of taking this important piece of legislation and throwing it away, dropping it into the trash can, radically changing the intent of what transpires. Good people can disagree. I will offer a perspective that needs to be heard, Mr. Speaker, by the American people and especially those who continue to champion the endless expansion of benefits and the destruction of welfare reform.”