Rick Lazio: “Mr. Chairman, let us get the job done. All we have heard are arguments about process and rules. Let us get the job done.…”

“Mr. Chairman, let us get the job done. All we have heard are arguments about process and rules. Let us get the job done. That argument about process does not help one person save themselves. It does not help one family. It does not help one community. We have debated this bill for 3 years. We have twice passed this on the floor of the House, the last time with 71 independent-minded, reform-minded Democrats voting for this. This is the exact same bill that has come before the House earlier. This is the bill that prizes individual choice over Washington mandates. It values local community control over more Washington mandates. It celebrates individual empowerment by rewarding work and not punishing families. It helps to build local leadership by building capacity through control over communities and control over individuals. It rewards work by removing the system that punishes work. It rewards work by ensuring that people who take minimum wage jobs are not shut out of vouchers, which is the administration's position. It eliminates rules that are antifamily and replaces them with pro-family rules and rules that are pro work. This is a debate over accountability, responsibility, hope and opportunity; about building for the future versus defending the status quo. Vote for this amendment. Vote for the future of America. Help our poor working Americans.”