Mr. Speaker, I rise to engage the gentleman from Missouri in a colloquy. Members may be aware of the ongoing debate in this budget legislation over whether workfare participants are employees, but they might benefit by some background on this issue, including a clarification of the intent of last year's welfare reform law.
Discussing the debate over workfare participants' status in budget legislation.
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