Jennifer Dunn: “I am very pleased today to see us moving toward bipartisanship on welfare. We are all very concerned about solving this…”

“I am very pleased today to see us moving toward bipartisanship on welfare. We are all very concerned about solving this major problem. Many of us here on the House floor who have worked on this issue month after month, and some people year after year, are worried about what the current system of welfare has done to children. I do want to reassure the gentlewoman from Florida that we have indeed built flexibility into this system, this new bipartisan proposal that will take care of children, that they will not suffer at the end of 5 years, that there is a 25-percent exemption number there, that money can be shifted from child care from title XX to take care of those children, and they can be transferred within the block grants, and that there are other State sources that may be used to support the children after 5 years as well. But I continue to be very pleased to see how much emphasis both sides of the aisle are putting on the issues that are most important to me in this bill, the issues of child care and child support.”