Don Nickles: “Illegitimacy has been exploding in this country, and, as a result, we have increased crime, we have increased welfare.…”

“Illegitimacy has been exploding in this country, and, as a result, we have increased crime, we have increased welfare. We need to break that cycle. The present system is we subsidize illegitimacy, the more children born out of wedlock the more Federal money they received. That is the present system. A lot of us think that is wrong. This bill says that there will be no additional under the Dole bill--not the Domenici amendment, the Dole bill says we are not going to give additional Federal cash payments for welfare families if they have additional children. It does not say the States. If the States are really adamant and say they want to help and do it in the form of cash, they can use their own money. The bill allows them to give noncash benefits, so they can take some of the block grant money and use noncash benefits in the form of vouchers and give. But we do not want to have cash incentives for additional children born out of wedlock.”