Political Quotes

“I have sympathy for what he is talking about. I was a member of the Ways and Means Committee which last year worked on the Republican Task Force on Welfare and came up with a bill, H.R. 3,500... we introduced a bill that, as chairman of the task force, will provide more money for child care recognizing the need that if we are going to put people into work that we would in fact be required to come up with some more money for child care. I say that under H.R. 3,500 we did not block grant the program. We did not give States the kind of flexibility that we do in this bill... 80 percent of the people who are on welfare today are represented by Republican Governors. Those Governors have almost unanimously... said that they are willing to take the allocation of resources provided in this bill and can in fact run programs that will put people to work and provide day care and the other support services that are necessary to get people into work.”