Peter Welch: “I thank the gentlelady. This amendment is not on the level. It uses a word that is important to all of us: work. Of…”

“I thank the gentlelady. This amendment is not on the level. It uses a word that is important to all of us: work. Of course people want to work, but there is no money for a work program. There is an obligation on the person who has no income, who has children, to somehow magically create their own work program. Any of the work programs have to have some support to get people to be able to move from poverty to work. This is a political statement. It's not a work program. How poor is poor? This is telling folks they're not poor enough. Grind them and their children down; 1-year-old children will lose food as a result of this.”