Rick Santorum: “What I found out was that, yes, it was 7.5, they raised it to 8, but they eliminated the requirement that they had to be…”

“What I found out was that, yes, it was 7.5, they raised it to 8, but they eliminated the requirement that they had to be a defined Bureau of Labor Statistics area, that the State could now define what the area would be. It could be an entire State. It could be a portion of the Bureau of Labor Statistics area. It could be a neighborhood. What it does is it makes this determination completely arbitrary on the part of the State, potentially even indecipherable, because you could have literally neighborhoods picked out or communities picked out. I think it is poor policy, but I think it creates a huge loophole in this whole area of exemptions from the time limit on welfare, not a step in the right direction. They gave with one hand and took away with the other.”