Sean Patrick Maloney: “this conference report is dangerous and unrealistic. I do not believe the American people will tolerate a policy of…”

“this conference report is dangerous and unrealistic. I do not believe the American people will tolerate a policy of ending support to a single mom who has played by the rules, tried to find a job for 2 years and could not. Our unemployment rate is over 5 percent, and that does not include millions of welfare recipients. This conference report does not require the Government to create jobs. The result will be the world's wealthiest nation putting families out on the street to fend for themselves. Will we tolerate destitution and call it reform? Republicans say the States will solve these problems. Already Philadelphia, as reported yesterday in the paper, has stopped providing shelter beds for single homeless people due to Federal and State welfare cuts. I am not predicting that Republican welfare reform will put people out on the street. I am pointing out that it already has. Oppose this conference report.”