Susan Molinari

I would submit that under this current crime bill, the city of New York has tremendous flexibility to deal with the problems that are affecting the city of New York. If my colleague will recall, our mayor stood here and said midnight…

What it does is, it frees up the police officers. It does not add new police officers. Let me just say that the mayor of the city of New York has that very same discretion to utilize those funds to accomplish the very same purpose and…

I think that is a bit misleading to the American public who believes that under the crime bill passed last year that the city of New York would be able to go out and in fact bring on more police officers to the city of New York.

I stand here today, Mr. Chairman, because I believe this is a much better crime bill. When we talk about the law enforcement block grant sections that are under discussion today and will be voted on through today and tomorrow, I believe…

The exact language is the grants may be used to procure equipment, technical or support systems or pay overtime.

rock-a-bye baby in the tree tops, thanks to the President's budget, your cradle you all going to have to hock. It appears that the White House left out an important section of their 1996 budget, the section called generational accounting…

there have been a lot of facts that have been ignored in this recent debate. Fact No. 1, there was, up until this point in time, a lot of work that was going on, no, not on the House floor but in committee meetings. Five subcommittees of…

there has been some concern that, if the United States acts to unilaterally end the arms embargo, then other nations will lift sanctions against other countries such as Haiti, Iraq, Libya. We will not enforce sanctions against North Korea…

Mr. Chairman, let us be clear, the war in Bosnia goes on whether we see it on the television or not. The rapes are continuing, the shelling of innocent lives goes on, and concentration camps throughout the region still have an…

I am pleased to consider and to have taken part in the development of legislation to authorize the Human Services Act. As many of my colleagues know, and we have heard, Head Start is approaching its 30th anniversary. This program clearly…

Mr. Chairman, I would just briefly like to rise in support of this amendment. In fact, there is strong precedent for this type of decisionmaking to proceed now on the Federal level. I have right here a book that has been issued by the U.S…

Mr. Chairman, at this time I would like to join with my colleagues from the Committee on Public Works and Transportation in strongly supporting H.R. 2442. This legislation does indeed address many of the concerns expressed by the people…

Under the Republican proposal, we would then provide her with a job. Presumably, though, from your response, the answer is no.

But unfortunately we have tremendous societal needs that could truly be addressed under the Republican alternative if we created those Government-sponsored jobs that allowed women to, in fact, while their children were receiving day care…

Let me just also add that we do, in fact, I think we agree on this, know we are going to realize immediate savings as soon as we embark on establishing paternity and making some young men in America finally pay for the responsibilities…

Thank you, Mr. Moderator. Mr. McCurdy, do you believe in establishing time limits for individuals to get off welfare? Mr. McCURDY. I do. I support the President's proposal. There ought to be a 2-year time limit.

You said you require more flexibility than the 2 years and you are off. Would you agree with a 3-year, or does flexibility go up to 10 years? At what point do we in society say: Flexibility, time is up, it is now up to society to expect…

The probability of a child growing up to be dependent on welfare is four time greater if that child comes from a welfare-dependent family. Welfare is not working. While one-half of mothers on welfare are off in 1 year, 75 percent will end…

But I think there is a real problem here. And that is since you come from a State with a large immigrant population as well, that you have to avoid cost shifting. We talk about unfunded mandates. We don't want to just cost-shift a huge…

So you do believe we should have a standard for citizenship. You do believe we should establish and insist on paternity. You do believe we should establish time limits. Mr. McCurdy, on the basis of what we have heard tonight, you appear to…

Do you agree that we should establish paternity before we provide benefits? Mr. McCURDY. I do. My State, Oklahoma, has a requirement of such. When President Clinton was Governor of Arkansas, he recommended, and they established, such a…

We certainly believe that the majority of individuals will be able to move off welfare in the near future. One of the things that I think Republicans rely on very clearly is the good faith of the American people that given an opportunity…

I understand that President Clinton understands to fund some of his so-called promises----

No time limit? Ten, fifteen, twenty years? If they need the flexibility you are talking about, your bill gives them that flexibility.

There is also another question about how disingenuous the Clinton plan is, because it does, in fact, exempt over 75 percent of the participants in the program today. And it does cost $58 billion. How, in fact, does President Clinton plan…