Political Quotes

“I stated before there would be many cities that, for potentially the foreseeable future, unfortunately, people in those cities would not be subject to the time limit under the Democratic leader's bill. I point to the cities of New York, which has an 8.7 percent unemployment rate; Los Angeles, which has a 10.6 percent unemployment rate; there is an 8.2 percent unemployment rate in Washington, DC; Detroit has a 10.8 percent rate. Those are a few cities where the unemployment rate exceeds 8 percent. As a result, under the bill put forward by Senator Daschle, none of the people living in those cities would have any of their time limit being worked off during those periods of high unemployment. So you could have, potentially, in a city like Detroit, which has historically had very high unemployment rates, no time limit for people who live in those cities. You are not talking about small or insignificant welfare populations. You are talking about New York, Los Angeles, Detroit, Washington, Miami, and many others. You are talking about a very large percentage of the caseload that will never, potentially, be time limited or will be time limited to 10 or more years. That is a big loophole in this bill, let us make no mistake about it. I believe that needs to be addressed.”