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Sheila Jackson Lee: what my good friend from Arizona fails to acknowledge is that welfare reform in its best sense was bipartisan of…

On the recordJune 25, 1997
what my good friend from Arizona fails to acknowledge is that welfare reform in its best sense was bipartisan of Democrats and Republicans. What this spending bill does is takes the rights away from working welfare people, does not provide them with protections of fair labor standards laws, does not provide them with protection against sexual harassment, does not treat them as workers who get equal pay for equal work. That is why we are against this spending bill, because it dishes the welfare reform that we put together in a bipartisan Congress. I am ashamed of what is coming about in this pending bill.
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Sheila Jackson Lee
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Opposing a spending bill related to welfare reform during a House floor debate.

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