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Rick Lazio: “That is precisely the issue. If our intent is simply to maintain or warehouse the poorest Americans, we are in the…”

On the recordMay 9, 1996
That is precisely the issue. If our intent is simply to maintain or warehouse the poorest Americans, we are in the process of doing that again, if we adopt this amendment. If our principle is to transition, to create an environment where people can have work and hope and opportunity and get a job and make their own choices, free of public subsidies and free of the artificial world where incomes and rents are tied together, then we will move in this direction.
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Rick Lazio
New York

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Discussing the implications of an amendment on welfare reform.

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