Political Quotes

“OK. Then if we are going to provide sufficient money for everyone to get child care as a first resort and a last resort, while it may not be an entitlement, it has in effect the same consequence which is everyone will have a day care slot, and that is a Federal day care slot which I think is a dangerous precedent and a counterproductive one. Again, I want to emphasize that I think through the Snowe amendment we are going to without a doubt encourage States--and I think a lot of States would do this without our encouragement--encourage States to move forward and to provide day care support for working single parents. And I will go through that rationale again. I think it is important. Under the Dole provision, we are going to require eventually 50 percent of all people who participate in this program, the welfare program, 50 percent will have to be in the work program. There will be a substantial number, roughly a third is usually the number, a third considered to be incapacitated, disabled, whatever the term you want to use, who will never be in a work program because of either their own incapacity or disability of a child that would make that parent really ineligible to have to leave that child and go to work. So you are setting aside a third that you pretty well know are not ever going to be in that program.”