Thomas Daschle: “If the chairman and ranking member would continue to indulge me, I would like to clarify one more technical point. The…”

“If the chairman and ranking member would continue to indulge me, I would like to clarify one more technical point. The report language says that the funds would be available to tribes whose caseloads exceed 50 percent of the total welfare caseload for the State. In point of fact, the tribes per se do not have caseloads, the States currently run the programs. My hope is that the chairman intended to indicate that funds would be provided in States where native Americans exceed 50 percent of a State's total caseload using data collected by the Administration for Children and Families at the Department of Health and Human Services in fiscal year 1995. Was that, in fact, the committee's intent?”