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Rick Santorum: “Let me understand this. Maybe we are a little more different than I thought we were. What you are saying is you take the…”

On the recordSeptember 6, 1995
Let me understand this. Maybe we are a little more different than I thought we were. What you are saying is you take the entire caseload of people that are on welfare, and you say a certain number of them are ineligible because of an incapacity. I think that is the term the current welfare law uses, ``incapacitation.'' We figure that that number is roughly a third. So you take them out of the mix before you apply the 50 percent standard?
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Rick Santorum
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Discussing welfare eligibility criteria during a debate.

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