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On the recordMay 4, 1994
I must say, Ms. Norton, it looks like we have agreement that welfare has done harm, more harm than good, listening to the opponents to the proposition. Maybe we ought to get down into the details. I do not know where you all get your figures, but they are really fun to listen to, but inaccurate. I have got several charts here that I would like to explain to you. These charts are given to us by the Congressional Budget Office and the Congressional Research Service run by the Democrat majority that controls this House. It shows that welfare spending from 1950 to 1992 has increased significantly, gone out of sight; yet at the same time, AFDC enrollment has gone out of sight, the illegitimacy rate has gone out of sight, the poverty rate has gone out of sight.
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Robert Walker
Republican · Pennsylvania
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Discussing the impact of welfare programs during a House debate.

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