John Shaw: “we are coming again to a crossroads, and why it is that we cannot move this bill ahead in an orderly fashion instead of…”

“we are coming again to a crossroads, and why it is that we cannot move this bill ahead in an orderly fashion instead of bits and pieces and jumping all around absolutely escapes me. The bill that my colleague from California has crafted which has passed this House now on several occasions increases the child care which is so necessary for the single moms struggling to go to work. We want to be sure their kids are taken care of and they are not in the street, and we have increased the funding substantially. When we look at what we are spending on each welfare recipient, because of the amount of welfare recipients going down and the funding not going down, we are spending well over twice as much on each welfare recipient for job training to get them on their feet and to get them to be productive human beings. This bill and the bill referred to by the gentleman from California (Mr. Herger) and the Committee on Ways and Means which has passed this House on several occasions gets to the other side of the Capitol and it is blocked. The other body has constantly talked this bill down and has prevented a vote on the floor of the other body, which is too bad. Mr. Speaker, we are seeing pre-1996 all over again. One of the proudest accomplishments of this body which I can remember so well culminated on August 22, 1996, when the President actually signed the bill.”