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Jon Fox: “The fact is the gentleman's vision, and the correct vision for America, is where he is headed by saying instead of…”

On the recordMarch 18, 1997
The fact is the gentleman's vision, and the correct vision for America, is where he is headed by saying instead of having two parents both forced to be working, not only do they not have a chance to get the family together and time to be with the children, but we have lost that independence of being able to make the choice because we have created, I think, to some extent, so much bureaucracy here in Washington of telling people how to run their lives instead of, as we did last year with our welfare reform legislation, take that back to the States, let them run it closer to the people, closer to where the local Government is, less expensively, and in this case, obviously, where direct services can go right to the people they want to serve.
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Jon Fox
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Discussing the impact of welfare reform and government bureaucracy on families.

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