I also commend the President today for agreeing to sign this most historic bill. I want to talk for just a second about a part of the bill that I helped write... We do away with a very subjective qualifying criteria that allows children to qualify for a disability when they really should not be on the program and replaces it with very definitive medical criteria that will be much, much superior to the current system.
Discussing provisions of the welfare reform bill related to SSI for children.
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I want to add another provision there, that over the last 3 years, hourly wages have increased in the United States by 8 percent. So a lot of this stuff we have heard is absolutely false.
I would remind the gentleman in the well that of the 50 cases we have brought before the World Trade Organization, we have won 46 which is a 92 percent success rate. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr…
I guess that challenge would go in both directions. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Chocola).
I can see both sides of pay-go, but I cannot see both sides of delegating legislative authority to the executive branch no matter who controls the executive branch.
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