John Shaw: “I want to join my other colleagues in congratulating the chairman for the way that she has presided over this body…”

“I want to join my other colleagues in congratulating the chairman for the way that she has presided over this body today. She has brought us great dignity. I would like to also speak to the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. Tanner], my good friend, who I think has done a wonderful job. I think it is incredible that the name Mike Castle, as a Republican Member, a most distinguished Republican Member, appears first on a bill that is being offered as a substitute by the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. Gephardt]. My goodness, what in the world is this Chamber coming to? But I think there are a few things we need to correct here. These are some of the characteristics that have been and some of the charges that have been laid toward H.R. 3734, the base bill that we are going to vote on this afternoon. We hear speaker, after speaker who has gotten up and said how it is weak on work. For goodness sake, one of the last speakers gets down with a poster that says we are weak on work. Which is it, are we too weak on work or too strong on work? They say that the work requirements are not even obtainable. Come on, we cannot have it both ways.”