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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